I have an architect who keeps asking for “more sheen”, but I am not doing a good job satisfying his “sheen” needs. Do you have any tips?
The roof is the sheen part.
That is a photo example he provided today.
What does the image you’re sending him look like?
most people who use the word sheen like that just mean polish in a general sense - as in well developed, complete and detailed. I have found that most of the time to satisfy a comment to add sheen, making the image grittier and more detailed does the job…
The photo I posted has a roof with sheen. I guess I didn’t explain it very well. I told him that it has a lot to do with viewing angle and what it is reflecting. The roof is black, but looks light gray and parts are really reflective.
Get a sample of the material or a vendor source that you may better access how to realize it.
take your raw reflection channel and stick it on top of everything in PS. Then play with the opacity and blending mode. Same thing for specular channel
can stick a mask if needed for the roof
Ah - a lot of this is kind of down to gradients - The specular / reflection on the roof is quite nicely fading out from strong to weak over the width of the roof - it’s all to do with the angle and height that your sun object in the scene is hitting the roof at and then using the blurriness / glossiness of your spec and reflection so that you get that nice gradual falloff.
in that picture the time is close to noon and the angle of the roof plus the camera..you could easy get that.
Ask him of reference of what in his eyes is “sheen”
Bobby,
I think if you just decreased the “bad” and increased the “wow” of your rendering that would be better. I mean, I’m not a client, by I do speak a bit of clientese.
Funny… Is there a setting for that? [quote=“MoonDoggie, username:MoonDoggie”]
Bobby,
I think if you just decreased the “bad” and increased the “wow” of your rendering that would be better. I mean, I’m not a client, by I do speak a bit of clientese.
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You’ll need a script to do it unfortunately, I have a slider setup for increasing “wow” in my script. All the way to the right is full wow.
please, share 
proprietary information only. Increasing the wow factor is a complicated process as you’re aware. Just keep trying to turn down the suck and increase the wow. Good luck Bobby.
Just increase you fresnel ior on your roof material (maybe 8.0 or higher), and maybe use a higher glossy value, like .95 or so. In some ways, that sample image looks like a bad render with too high reflectivity, and sun right behind the camera.
I did try a higer IOR, but I didn’t go that high. I did tell him that his example is what photographers might avoid, but he didn’t care much to listen[quote=“andybot_cg, username:andybot_cg”]
Just increase you fresnel ior on your roof material (maybe 8.0 or higher), and maybe use a higher glossy value, like .95 or so. In some ways, that sample image looks like a bad render with too high reflectivity, and sun right behind the camera.
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Hhahahahahah Funny.
Now, that made my day
Haha, you beat me to it!