{"id":1289,"date":"2012-02-16T11:14:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T11:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/?page_id=1289"},"modified":"2012-11-27T12:06:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T12:06:51","slug":"lesson-10","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/v-ray-for-beginners\/lesson-10","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 10 | Color Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi\u00c2\u00a0[wlm_firstname],<br \/>\ndo you know what is Color Mapping and how to use it? It&#8217;s super-simple, learn it in 3 mins :<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/36892388?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"599\" height=\"337\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>CONCEPTS<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Always use LINEAR color mapping<\/li>\n<li>EXPONENTIAL is a &#8220;trick&#8221; to solve a problem: overexposure<\/li>\n<li>A typical situation: light source + interior<\/li>\n<li>Exponential solves your problem reducing the contrast (no way to avoid that!)<\/li>\n<li>Use &#8220;curves&#8221; to recover the contrast<\/li>\n<li>You can use V-Ray Curve correction, Photohop, Lightroom: it&#8217;s the same.<\/li>\n<li>Color mapping <strong>will NEVER change the beauty of your image<\/strong>, just solve a problem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>EXERCISE<\/strong>:<br \/>\nDownload\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/files\/Premium\/vraycourse\/es10-color_mapping.zip\">ES10 &#8211; Color Mapping<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnvray.com\/files\/10less\/es10-color_mapping%20-%20OBJ.rar\">OBJ Version<\/a> and do the same you watched in the video.<br \/>\nWatch to believe, try to understand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Other color mapping (exponential HSV, Reinhard ecc..) are variations of &#8220;exponential&#8221;. We will talk about in future videos. Anyway <strong>the MAIN thing to understand is here<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi\u00c2\u00a0[wlm_firstname], do you know what is Color Mapping and how to use it? It&#8217;s super-simple, learn it in 3 mins : CONCEPTS: Always use LINEAR color mapping EXPONENTIAL is a &#8220;trick&#8221; to solve a problem: overexposure A typical situation: light source + interior Exponential solves your problem reducing the contrast (no way to avoid that!) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1195,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1289\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}