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Install Types:
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SKU:86630

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Artist: Digital Art Live Geekatplay

Compatible Figures: N/A

Install Types: DIM Manual Install

SKU:86630

Optional License Add-Ons:

*3D Printing License −60% $1.99 $0.80

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Details

Combining the use of Daz Studio and Photoshop for compositing provides wider options for your art, faster composition of elements, and a more polished look for your completed artwork.

In this tutorial set, GeekAtPlay (Vladimir Chopine) shows you how to prepare, light, and render a Daz Studio background ready to composite with a photographed or stock asset. He then goes on to show how to composite the items together using Photoshop, multiplying the value of the artwork by fixing artifacts, isolating and adding new elements, adding shadows, increasing depth, enhancing the colors, postworking lighting, and improving the skin and hair of a photographed model.

Tutorial running time: 120 minutes across seven videos in MP4 format at 1920 x 1080 HD.

This tutorial product includes a searchable version of the videos with optional captions, where any word or phrase spoken can be searched for across the whole set of tutorials.

Resources include the rendered Daz backdrop asset, candle flame, and high-resolution images of the photo asset.

Video 1: Why composite? GeekAtPlay's portfolio selection of composite artworks showing the potential of compositing.

Video 2: GeekAtPlay's tips on acquiring assets for Daz Studio.

Video 3: Using the "ROG Fantasy Home", lessons on adding lighting to the set for compositing, considering camera and render settings, and selecting a suitable point of view to render for the background.

Video 4: Cleaning up and cropping the photograph asset and isolating the foreground with the pen tool. Using the pen tool and top tips for tricky areas such as hair.

Video 5: Advanced work on the foreground asset; finishing the hair by blending, reflective surfaces, skin and hair enhancements, deepening shadows, and highlighting areas for more interest and depth.

Video 6: Adding candle flames, distorting the flames, considering reflected light of new light sources, light and color casting, glow, adjusting for natural look and coloring

Video 7: Smoke and color overlays. Using brushes. Adding depth with atmospheric effects. Using grain and final touches.

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About the Presenter: Vladimir Chopine from GeekAtPlay

The founder of Geekatplay and with a background in film production and computer sciences, 3D graphics, photography, and composites has long provided a set of passionate pursuits for Vladimir. Serving 3D digital artists across the world, he has created over 3000 tutorials on VUE, Daz Studio, Photoshop, Terragen, and many other applications.

Originally from Moscow, he lives with his wife Ami Chopin, who is a professional writer in Salt Lake City, Utah.
What's Included and Features
- Expert Compositing with DAZ Rendered Backgrounds
- Total Running Time: 120 minutes
- Total File size: 2.57 Gb
- Chapter List:
  
  Video 1 : Digital compositing next step in creating art (7 minutes).MP4
  
  00:00 Advantages of compositing - creating a more magnetic story for your art
  
  00:02 Compelling composite examples with digitally created backgrounds
  
  00:04 Our selected photographed asset and the plans for it
  
  00:06 About the contents of the asset pack with this product
  
  Video 2 : Tips on Acquiring DAZ Assets (7 minutes).MP4
  
  00:00 A few pointers on acquiring your DAZ assets from the DAZ3D store
  
  00:02 Make a list of required assets and a wishlist
  
  00:03 Wishlists and notifications of sales
  
  00:05 Balancing your creative time
  
  Video 3 : Setup lighting and render background in Daz Studio (30 minutes).MP4
  
  00:00 Creating different moods by considering different backgrounds
  
  00:01 About the photographed assets
  
  00:04 Choosing the ROG Fantasy Home - Large Room - set and using the inside as a backdrop.
  
  00:05 Selecting render and camera settings
  
  00:07 Gaining the focal length of the photographed asset and matching with virtual camera
  
  00:09 Set up lighting. Check existing lighting on the set
  
  00:11 Linear point lighting use with candles.
  
  00:12 Add a distant light to the set
  
  00:14 Alter distant light colour and set the lumen.
  
  00:16 Add a linear point light near the bench window
  
  00:18 Highlighting the glass with a blue glow
  
  00:20 About complimentary colours
  
  00:22 Adjusting lumen for the point light
  
  00:25 Checking render properties.
  
  00:26 Bloom filter
  
  00:28 Lighting that came with the set
  
  Video 4 : Preparing foreground image in Photoshop (18 minutes).MP4
  
  00:00 Looking at rendered image and saving.
  
  00:01 DAZ preserves transparent areas for the render.
  
  00:02 Checking for bright images on the photographed asset
  
  00:04 Rule of thirds lines - adjust and crop
  
  00:05 Check for render artefacts and fix
  
  00:07 Isolate or overlay for preparing photographed asset for compositing?
  
  00:09 Using the pen tool for isolating - what do you do with hair?
  
  00:11 Pen tool work completed - but needs checking
  
  00:13 Isolating mask created
  
  00:15 Advantages of the pen tool for creating the mask
  
  00:17 Clues for original lighting in reflective surfaces
  
  00:18 Next steps for the masked photographed asset
  
  Video 5 : Blending lighting between components in Photoshop 4 (20 minutes).MP4
  
  00:00 Vector and raster masks on one layer
  
  00:02 Blending edges of hair with backdrop
  
  00:04 Spot healing brush to fix anything (skin blemishes)
  
  00:05 Work on the reflections of the goggles
  
  00:06 Combine all visible layers for smoothing
  
  00:08 Filter,Stylize,Oil painting for hair - better texture for hair
  
  00:10 Pick areas of hair to affect
  
  00:12 Same work on the beard.
  
  00:12 Using dodge and burn for working on the shapes in the image
  
  00:14 Settings for dodge and burn
  
  00:16 Dodge and burn helps emphasise shadow and highlights
  
  00:18 Add shadowing to the hair
  
  Video 6 : Adding light sources reflections blending colours (21 minutes).MP4
  
  00:00 Adding candle flames to the image
  
  00:02 Distort the flames
  
  00:04 Reflections of the candles on relevant surfaces
  
  00:06 Work on reflections in the goggles
  
  00:08 Distorting flames in the goggles
  
  00:10 Add shadows and highlights according to the cast light
  
  00:12 Casting colors due to the lighting
  
  00:14 How to create glow for candlelight
  
  00:16 Shadow adjustments
  
  00:18 Increase color glow on candles
  
  00:18 Noise clean up
  
  00:20 Natural look and colouring applied
  
  Video 7 : 07 Adding smoke and color overlay (16 minutes).MP4
  
  00:00 How to add greater depth to a composited scene.
  
  00:02 Blending to fix flame artefacts
  
  00:04 Using Ron Deviney's brushes
  
  00:06 Adding smoke to candles
  
  00:08 Add atmospheric layer but control with opacity
  
  00:08 Add grain
  
  00:10 Coloring effects on the rendered DAZ background.
  
  00:12 Color overlay and final dodge and burn
  
  00:14 Difference between how the photographed asset started and the final composite
  
  Resources : Studio Photography by Vladimir Chopine
  
  backdrop-daz-class.psb (rendered DAZ background as Photoshop file)
  
  candle.png
  
  model.jpg
  
  model.tiff
- PDF Document providing searchable version of this tutorial set
  
  ExpertCompositingWithDAZBackgrounds.PDF
- Software Used: Photoshop
- File Types: .Mp4
Notes
- This product includes:
  
  03 General Installers