{"id":2281,"date":"2013-02-04T10:14:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T10:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2013-02-04T10:35:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T10:35:10","slug":"4x4-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/2013\/02\/04\/4x4-post.htm","title":{"rendered":"TADAO ANDO 4X4 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Final &#038; Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll talk about <strong>Final Render<\/strong> and <strong>Post Production<\/strong><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/topics-5srw.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>LESSON#37 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c TOPICS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>HD VIDEO \/ Narrated \/ 12\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>MAX FILES to download<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0with all the V-Ray settings<\/li>\n<li><strong>PSD FILES to download<\/strong> with all layers<\/li>\n<li><strong>FINAL RENDER images to try<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0\/ exercise<\/li>\n<li>Get alpha channel with V-Ray Dome;<\/li>\n<li>How to choose the right background;<\/li>\n<li>Evaluating perspective;<\/li>\n<li>FAD technique (extract hidden details);<\/li>\n<li>Creating the chromatic contrast;<\/li>\n<li>PROGLOW technique;<\/li>\n<li>Best VIGNETTING technique;<\/li>\n<li>Useful shortcuts for photoshop;<\/li>\n<li>No HDRI to achieve great result!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is the image you&#8217;ll get at the end of this training:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/4x4-post.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2286\" alt=\"4x4-post-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/4x4-post-icon.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/4x4-post-icon.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/4x4-post-icon-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[private Premium|Premium-1year]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Final &amp; Post Production \/ Step 4-5<\/h2>\n<p>Too often people think that HDRI is absolutely needed to achieve a great final outcome. For sure HDRI is a great tool becasue this allow to use the same environmental information to get light, reflections and background. But if we use our head and we gain awareness about the whole process we can reach similar result without it.<\/p>\n<p>This video is FULL of very important concepts and techniques.<br \/>\nWatch it very carefully to learn secret techniques that ONLY professional photoretouchers use:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/58874449\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2242\" alt=\"main-conc2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/main-conc2.gif\" width=\"57\" height=\"56\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0CONCEPTS<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use invisible option to get a correct alpha channel;<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate a coherent perspective for your background;<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate a coherent light direction for your background;<\/li>\n<li>Use FAD technique to extract incredible details;<\/li>\n<li>Use 2 \u00c2\u00a0&#8220;balance color&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0layers to create a chromatic contrast;<\/li>\n<li>Only for the warm balance use the mask to show only the parts you need;<\/li>\n<li>Use ProGLOW to add glow with no loss in details;<\/li>\n<li>use Best VIGNETTING to add an &#8220;invisible&#8221; vignetting to your render;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SHORTCUTS INCLUDED IN THE VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + E = create a new layer with all active layers;<\/li>\n<li>CTRL + J = duplicate selected layer;<\/li>\n<li>CTRL + G = create a group with selected layers;<\/li>\n<li>CTRL + I = Invert current layer;<\/li>\n<li>SHIFT + F6 = access feather selection window;<\/li>\n<li>ALT + create mask button = create a black mask;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Techniques illustrated in the video<\/h2>\n<p><strong>FAD &#8211; Freaking Amazing Details<br \/>\n<\/strong>In this technique get details appling a <strong>Surface Blur<\/strong> filter to the &#8220;Vivid light&#8221; layer:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2284\" alt=\"fad-tech\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fad-tech.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fad-tech.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fad-tech-300x93.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ProGLOW &#8211; Professional glow<br \/>\n<\/strong>In this technique add glow applying a\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Gaussian Blur<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0filter to the &#8220;Screen&#8221; layer:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"glow-tech\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/glow-tech.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The best VIGNETTING of the world!<br \/>\n<\/strong>In this technique delete part of this layer using the Fether Selection option (SHIFT+F6):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2285\" alt=\"tech-multi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tech-multi.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tech-multi.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tech-multi-300x93.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ex-icon.gif\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Exercise<\/h2>\n<p>To get the final render you can download and launch &#8220;4X4 final setting&#8221; &#8211; Instead, to directly carry out the post production exercise, download the images included in &#8220;<strong>Render + Background<\/strong>&#8221; pack and go on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnvray.com\/files\/4x4\/4X4-s4-ok.zip\">4&#215;4 &#8211; Final Settings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnvray.com\/files\/4x4\/4x4-textures.zip\">4&#215;4 &#8211; All textures<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(put in the same folder)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnvray.com\/files\/4x4\/4x4-post-start.zip\">4&#215;4 &#8211; RENDER + BACKGROUND<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download the FINAL version, to check on the PSD file all the layers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnvray.com\/files\/4x4\/4x4-post-final.zip\">4&#215;4 &#8211; Post Production \/ FINAL<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/private]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LESSON #37<\/strong>: In this lesson I&#8217;ll show you different techniques only used by professional photoretouchers to improve contrast and details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[24,50,51],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}