Haven’t posted in a while, hope to get some c&c
nice mood overall!
still id boost the brightness as it looks a little flat to me…u could probably reduce the grass displacement and spare a little for that small lake in the 1st plane…the water is prety nice.
oh… and those trees r bitmap right? 
good work!
keep em comming!
nicely done. Though If I may give an honest crit, I would like to see you move away from the colormapping your using. It tends to deaden your scenes alot. I can see that its a personal ‘style’ of yours, but its not always working in your favor. If you look at your trees, they should convey a feeling of warmth, and they just look ‘grayish.’
I like the feeling overall but I’d boost the brights to give it a better feeling of sunlight and add more contrast.
V Miller
I’d have to agree about the bright areas being a low, though the levels do look nice behind that glass and the interior feels very correct. On the top floor (screen right) it almost appears as if more light is making it through the window and being stopped down by the tinting than is hitting the wall just outside.
Those subtle gradients from glossie reflections look very appealing on the large surfaces. It may be worth it to see how they would look broken up by the proper noise frequency once the levels are correct.
Nice image, although i do agree with the other chaps about the grayness of the image.
I took the liberty of running it thru PS and using my S curve color correct it seems to have done wonders.
Anyway, just a little food for thought.
<edited to add border to keep Nikki happy :lol: >
The S strike’s again!! 8)
i really like that, good work
Good spot, mate, but you are forgetting something like a nice little… around the image 
@ bpozas
I like the architecture a lot, except the high stone walls (IMO). Maybe some different finishing as material, not sure though; just a thought .
Best regards,
nikki Candelero
:lol: you never miss my S posts do you jow? hahaha
Nikki,
There ya go, better? hehehe
whoa, daforce! Can you explain please what you did in Pshop to that image? that looks amazing but I have no idea what S curve is, but I can see from this thread that I should :shock:
Well its just the black border.. that thing can do WONDERS!!.. well atleast thats what Nikki will tell ya. :lol:
But seriously, its quite simple once you know the S Curve ™
Drop the image into photoshop, it generally works well with grayish images (often from LWF) then apply a curve correction (image → adjustments → curve)
Then add in 2 points and arrange them in a faint S similar to the image below.
I believe for bpozas render the bottom point was a bit further down to the right then in the image below and the top point was about the same maybe a little further up left… just move them to get it looking just right.
Good luck 8)
Thanks DaForce, I usually don’t use photoshop until I’m ready to print, but never use the s curve, that’s a great tip, thanks!
Na mate :lol: Thanks for sharing it…
™ :roll:
BTW bpozas, Nice work.
DaForce, im pretty sure (though i could be wrong, Im rendering and cant do a test) but what your doing there is just level adjustment.
goto levels and pull in the 2 outer arrows towards the center arrow, will add contrast.
It’s close to the level adjustment you describe but not quite. To get the same adjustment out of curves you’d need a graph like the following:
The disadvantage of the way you describe is that you lose all of the detail in your pure blacks and pure whites. Using the “S” curve method produces roughly similar results but keeps details in these areas since it’s not clipping any of the values out.
dlparisi, cheers for the explanation..Ill have to do some tests as i tend to use levels quite a bit, was never aware that I might be losing detail by using it though
thanks the heads up
yep dlparisi is spot on. Exactly the reason I try to stay away from levels as much as possible. As you basically loss too much info for my liking.
If you try to match my S curve ™ out come with levels you will loss black levels like under the building near the white column you will get mostly black. Where with the S curve ™ you keep the most of the colors and levels intact.
Hence the wonderfull S curve ™
jow:
:lol: ™