Postcard From The Jurassic by frogdot

Bryce • Atmosphere/Mood • posted on Apr 26, 2011

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Here's a tip if you want it. In Bryce, after the intial render, I highlight the foreground objects (island with trees, vines, flowers, beach and girl), then do an object render, which will serve to make a mask in postwork. In Photoshop, I make a duplicate layer of the render and set the layer mode to "Screen". This lightens everything. Back off the opacity to approx. 50%, or whatever you like. Then, using the object render, I select the white parts using the magic wand tool and then erase that part of the Screen layer. This makes the distant scene fade like haze, but more evenly than Bryce haze. This method should work in Paint Shop Pro too.

Comments (26)

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cecemckenzie

5:15PM | Tue, 26 April 2011

Pretty!

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Gisela

5:17PM | Tue, 26 April 2011

Beautiful.

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bebopdlx

5:25PM | Tue, 26 April 2011

Excellent card. Thanks for the info also.

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coyoteviper

5:32PM | Tue, 26 April 2011

awesome scene.

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Bossie_Boots

5:35PM | Tue, 26 April 2011

Nice post card superb work !!

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MagikUnicorn

5:36PM | Tue, 26 April 2011

Beautiful scene...as usual Dave

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MsCrYpT

5:39PM | Tue, 26 April 2011

Beautiful scene!! :)

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brycek

5:48PM | Tue, 26 April 2011

Beautiful scene..well done!

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JeffersonAF

5:58PM | Tue, 26 April 2011

Excellent.

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FloydianSlip

6:56PM | Tue, 26 April 2011

Very nicely done!! I like how you framed the scene with the foliage in the foreground. Really good composition. :)

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ThunderStone

7:11PM | Tue, 26 April 2011

Thanks for the tip! Great scene, tho.

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Cimaira

7:39PM | Tue, 26 April 2011

Beautiful scene! Great tip, I may try that in DS ;)

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Kalypso Online Now!

10:41PM | Tue, 26 April 2011

What a paradisiacal setting . . . at first glance! The smoking volcano is a nice touch :) Thanks for the tip, Poser outputs a z-depth map which would be ideal for this, will definitely try it!

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peedy

11:58PM | Tue, 26 April 2011

Beautiful scdene. Thanks for the info, Dave, Corrie

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lemonjim

12:25AM | Wed, 27 April 2011

I've also had fun with Altitude and Distance renders! excellent

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kjer_99

12:36AM | Wed, 27 April 2011

Thanks for the tip!

rashadcarter

2:16AM | Wed, 27 April 2011

Great scene and great tip indeed. Thanks!

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njb2000

3:26AM | Wed, 27 April 2011

Great looking image and thanks for that masking tip! I could have done with that! Cheers!

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Hubert

5:46AM | Wed, 27 April 2011

Great scene and cool mini-tutorial!

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RodolfoCiminelli

5:59AM | Wed, 27 April 2011

Excellent and beautiful work.....!!!

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bobbystahr

12:15PM | Wed, 27 April 2011

Great render and timely tip. I was just yesterday thinking of ways to get extra populations into my Terregen 2 Free app as it only allows 3 and remembered "Multi Pass Rendering" from my Imagine3D days where it was used to speed up post compositing of frames by having all items rendered on separate layers with the look you want to start from and tweak in PhotoShop. Vue 6 and up already support output to layered .psd files but I really can't afford that so am going to figure it out for TG2.Thanks for the memory jog Dave.. ..

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