Is there a way to degrade a rendering?

[zapcat]

Is there a plugin for photoshop to get the quality of a render to the quality of a digital photo? At the moment my render just looks too perfect and I need to degrade the quality to the same sort of level of the photo I'm adding it too.

Hope you can help.

Zap

[losbellos]

make noise, play with saturation/blur contrast.
With this u should be able to make something very bad looking )

[thumpa]

It all depends on what the current image looks like that you're trying to match. Look at the image you're trying to match & analyse what about it is not great quality. Is it the edges? The lack of colour, or detail in large areas?

If there are lots of little dots, add some Noise, or Dust & Scratches. Sometimes adding a few Sharpen filters can help to degrade the image. You could even try using a paint brush in Photoshop to add a stipple effect to your render. Maybe even save it as a compressed image (.GIF or .JPG) and bring that back into Photoshop.

Good luck!

[gustojunk]

Richard Rosenman has a great plugin he made for photo noise, it's in the software section of his website (http://www.richardrosenman.com).

BTW, thanks Richard for that, it works great!

Gustavo

[cocolas]

akey about photmatching is getting the grain on the rendering to look like that on the photo...the grain filter is pretty good, in addition to the others that have been mentioned...

paul.

[s0real]

you could always save the rendering as a low quality jpeg and then open it up again to give it a real low-quality-cheap-digital-camera feel