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Photographic Rendering with V-Ray for SketchUp

You're reading from   Photographic Rendering with V-Ray for SketchUp Turn your 3D modeling into photographic realism with this superb guide for SketchUp users. Through concrete examples, screenshots, and images, you'll learn the practical side to photographic rendering using V-Ray.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849693226
Length 328 pages
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Photographic Rendering with V-Ray for SketchUp
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Diving Straight into Photographic Rendering FREE CHAPTER 2. Lighting an Interior Daytime Scene 3. Lighting an Interior Nighttime Scene Using IES Lights 4. Lighting an Exterior Daylight Scene 5. Understanding the Principles of Light Behavior 6. Creating Believable Materials 7. Important Materials Theory 8. Composition and Cameras 9. Quality Control 10. Adding Photographic Touches in Post-production Index

Previsualizing image corrections using V-Ray FrameBuffer


One thing you may be questioning at this point could be the reason why we appear to have kept our renders quite so dark throughout this chapter? After all, doesn't V-Ray have lots of tools and options that could have been used to brighten things up just a little? Well the answer to that question would most certainly be yes.

We could, for instance, have altered our camera's exposure settings, or worked with non linearized materials, meaning they would bounce a lot more light around the environment. We haven't taken any of those steps however so that we could give you a taste of just how powerful V-Rays floating point rendering can be when combined with the power of image post-processing tools.

The brilliant thing about V-Ray is that we don't even have to go into an image-editing application such as Photoshop in order to actually use this workflow. We can instead do some basic image post-processing or color correction using the tools that...

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