{"id":947,"date":"2011-05-30T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/?p=947"},"modified":"2013-04-15T09:32:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T09:32:19","slug":"change-color-rendering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/30\/change-color-rendering.htm","title":{"rendered":"Change colors without render again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Description<\/strong>:<br \/>\nHow many times did you encountered a terrible customer who suddenly ask you for deep color changes on your render?<\/p>\n<p>How to quickly\u00c2\u00a0get results, if your render is already done?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"images photoshop\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mask-images.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/images\/2-solution.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Direct color correction in photoshop is great but not every time, this is time to use <strong>masks<\/strong>. With the photoshop masks you can make strong operations on the image, you just need a few minutes to create the perfect mask for your needs. Here&#8217;s how I usually do.<\/p>\n<p>A fast way is the dear old <strong>Scanline<\/strong>. With Black and White materials I get that one:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"mask photoshop\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mask-photoshop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then in Photoshop complete the process. Watch the video for all details:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/34223755?color=ff9933\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"599\" height=\"337\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/images\/3-exercise.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>RESUME &#8211; In 3ds Max<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Panel render (F10)&gt; Common&gt; Assign Renderer&gt; Default Scanline Render<\/li>\n<li>create two <strong>standard materials<\/strong>: pure white and pure black:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"material editor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/materials-mask.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Make white what I want to change &#8211; Black the others.<\/li>\n<li>Turn off\u00c2\u00a0all the lights\u00c2\u00a0in\u00c2\u00a0the scene\u00c2\u00a0(don&#8217;t forget!)<\/li>\n<li>Hit render<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><strong>RESUME -\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>In Photoshop:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open <strong>render-base.jpg<\/strong> and <strong>render-mask.jpg<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In &#8220;render-base&#8221; Duplicate\u00c2\u00a0the layer<\/li>\n<li>Create a new mask<\/li>\n<li>Apply image &gt; &#8220;render-mask&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Make\u00c2\u00a0any changes\u00c2\u00a0you\u00c2\u00a0want<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/download\/change-colors-premium2.zip\">DOWNLOAD THE PACK<\/a><\/strong> and repeat the<br \/>\nexercise related to Photoshop.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to modify your render but you have no time to render again? It is possible creating a mask in 3ds max and using Photoshop to apply all colors you want. In this post I&#8217;ll show you how to do that.<\/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":[5,6],"tags":[65,36,62,23],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947"}],"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=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}