Saphirewild's Randomness Renders

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  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,668

    Made this one for the PC+ Inspiration Contest

    Titled: Beautiful Love

    Really love this one! 

    the Gia's are my favorite of the Daz Original characters, I think you will find her quite versatile!

    I think Gia is one of the most beautiful of the generations!

  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,668

    Pretty much anything to do with GIMP plz if you have the time to show me Sven Dullah

    blush

    As I said, can't compete with the pros regarding post processing, but can show you a couple of tricks I like to use;)

    Took myself the liberty of importing one of your renders into GIMP, great render btw, hope you don't mind?

    After import, first thing I did was go to the layers tab, right click on the layer and duplicate it. Then went to colors in the menu bar, and chose desaturate to make it black&white. There are 3 options, I chose the middle one. Increased contrast a bit. Next, went to filters/blur/gaussian blur and set the amount to around 25. So now I had the bottom layer untouched and the duplicated layer in b&w and blurred. Next I chose filters/artistic/softglow and set glow radius to 18, brightness to 0.62, sharpness 0.76 and applied the softglow to the duplicated layer. In the layer tab I set layer mode to hard light, opacity to 76. Exported under a new name.

    Original:

    Gimped version:

     

     

    image

    This was just a quick one, hope you get the picture;) Try this technique using 1 or more duplicates, various layermodes and amounts of opacity and various filters. Sometimes (mostly by accident) great things can happensmiley

    Oh and a tip: Render you images as png or tiff, jpegs will not have the same quality, there is always some compression/loss in quality.

    Another version where I just toned down the duplicate layer some more (opacity 50):

    image

    Well, I learned something new thank you for sharing this!

    Yeah I learn a lot with this one as well I am also going to youtube to learn more about gimp but it is mostly about taking real life photos and redoing them.

    Myself I want to learn how to do all those special tricks to make my renders like yours @iceDragonArt within GIMP.

  • dracorndracorn Posts: 2,341
    Boy, have you been BUSY! Great renders, Saph!
  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,548

    Pretty much anything to do with GIMP plz if you have the time to show me Sven Dullah

    blush

    As I said, can't compete with the pros regarding post processing, but can show you a couple of tricks I like to use;)

    Took myself the liberty of importing one of your renders into GIMP, great render btw, hope you don't mind?

    After import, first thing I did was go to the layers tab, right click on the layer and duplicate it. Then went to colors in the menu bar, and chose desaturate to make it black&white. There are 3 options, I chose the middle one. Increased contrast a bit. Next, went to filters/blur/gaussian blur and set the amount to around 25. So now I had the bottom layer untouched and the duplicated layer in b&w and blurred. Next I chose filters/artistic/softglow and set glow radius to 18, brightness to 0.62, sharpness 0.76 and applied the softglow to the duplicated layer. In the layer tab I set layer mode to hard light, opacity to 76. Exported under a new name.

    Original:

    Gimped version:

     

     

    image

    This was just a quick one, hope you get the picture;) Try this technique using 1 or more duplicates, various layermodes and amounts of opacity and various filters. Sometimes (mostly by accident) great things can happensmiley

    Oh and a tip: Render you images as png or tiff, jpegs will not have the same quality, there is always some compression/loss in quality.

    Another version where I just toned down the duplicate layer some more (opacity 50):

    image

    Well, I learned something new thank you for sharing this!

    Yeah I learn a lot with this one as well I am also going to youtube to learn more about gimp but it is mostly about taking real life photos and redoing them.

    Myself I want to learn how to do all those special tricks to make my renders like yours @iceDragonArt within GIMP.

    I think a lot of what I do you can do in Gimp. I think the hard part is figureing out what part of Gimp matches the part in Photoshop, because they aren't always called the same thing!

  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,668

    Pretty much anything to do with GIMP plz if you have the time to show me Sven Dullah

    blush

    As I said, can't compete with the pros regarding post processing, but can show you a couple of tricks I like to use;)

    Took myself the liberty of importing one of your renders into GIMP, great render btw, hope you don't mind?

    After import, first thing I did was go to the layers tab, right click on the layer and duplicate it. Then went to colors in the menu bar, and chose desaturate to make it black&white. There are 3 options, I chose the middle one. Increased contrast a bit. Next, went to filters/blur/gaussian blur and set the amount to around 25. So now I had the bottom layer untouched and the duplicated layer in b&w and blurred. Next I chose filters/artistic/softglow and set glow radius to 18, brightness to 0.62, sharpness 0.76 and applied the softglow to the duplicated layer. In the layer tab I set layer mode to hard light, opacity to 76. Exported under a new name.

    Original:

    Gimped version:

     

     

    image

    This was just a quick one, hope you get the picture;) Try this technique using 1 or more duplicates, various layermodes and amounts of opacity and various filters. Sometimes (mostly by accident) great things can happensmiley

    Oh and a tip: Render you images as png or tiff, jpegs will not have the same quality, there is always some compression/loss in quality.

    Another version where I just toned down the duplicate layer some more (opacity 50):

    image

    Well, I learned something new thank you for sharing this!

    Yeah I learn a lot with this one as well I am also going to youtube to learn more about gimp but it is mostly about taking real life photos and redoing them.

    Myself I want to learn how to do all those special tricks to make my renders like yours @iceDragonArt within GIMP.

    I think a lot of what I do you can do in Gimp. I think the hard part is figureing out what part of Gimp matches the part in Photoshop, because they aren't always called the same thing!

    I know what you mean but I just can not afford Photoshop subscript!!

  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,668
    dracorn said:
    Boy, have you been BUSY! Great renders, Saph!

    Thanks @dracorn I am going to be even busier this week trying to do lessons on GIMP.

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,548
     

    I think a lot of what I do you can do in Gimp. I think the hard part is figureing out what part of Gimp matches the part in Photoshop, because they aren't always called the same thing!

    I know what you mean but I just can not afford Photoshop subscript!!

    I put it off for years.  The only reason I pay for the subscription now is because I use it every single day.  Otherwise, I would have just stuck to something free.

     

  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,668
     

    I think a lot of what I do you can do in Gimp. I think the hard part is figureing out what part of Gimp matches the part in Photoshop, because they aren't always called the same thing!

    I know what you mean but I just can not afford Photoshop subscript!!

    I put it off for years.  The only reason I pay for the subscription now is because I use it every single day.  Otherwise, I would have just stuck to something free.

     

    Oh I am ot saying anything against Photoshop or you @iceDragonArt I am just saying I wish I could afford it!

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,548
     

    I think a lot of what I do you can do in Gimp. I think the hard part is figureing out what part of Gimp matches the part in Photoshop, because they aren't always called the same thing!

    I know what you mean but I just can not afford Photoshop subscript!!

    I put it off for years.  The only reason I pay for the subscription now is because I use it every single day.  Otherwise, I would have just stuck to something free.

     

    Oh I am ot saying anything against Photoshop or you @iceDragonArt I am just saying I wish I could afford it!

    I know, you are much too nice to say anything mean!  If it wasn't a necessity, I couldn't afford it either.  ( I know that sounds weird but its legitimately a work expense for me, which is separate from my personal expenses. )

  • wsgentrywsgentry Posts: 572

    Y'all are just way too good and prolific.  I'm intimidated.

  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,668
     

    I think a lot of what I do you can do in Gimp. I think the hard part is figureing out what part of Gimp matches the part in Photoshop, because they aren't always called the same thing!

    I know what you mean but I just can not afford Photoshop subscript!!

    I put it off for years.  The only reason I pay for the subscription now is because I use it every single day.  Otherwise, I would have just stuck to something free.

     

    Oh I am ot saying anything against Photoshop or you @iceDragonArt I am just saying I wish I could afford it!

    I know, you are much too nice to say anything mean!  If it wasn't a necessity, I couldn't afford it either.  ( I know that sounds weird but its legitimately a work expense for me, which is separate from my personal expenses. )

    I wish I had a work expence :D this is just a hobby for me right now until I get good enough to start using my modeling programs the way I want to, so I can become a PA as well.

    As it stands right now I am not even sure what I would like to start creating right yet ex: Clothing, Houses, Hair, Props Jewelery, my own characters,etc....

    Like one of the PAs said a while ago there just is not enough time in a day to do everything I want to.

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,157

    Impossible to get caught up on your thread.  I mean that in the very best way.  You are so productive!.  I know its a few pages ago, but I absolutely loved the teddy bear.  Thanks to Sven Dullah for the GIMP example.  Can't wait to see what you decide to model.  

  • TynkereTynkere Posts: 834

    As others have said, 'Beautiful Love' is a nice one.  I really struggle with all the settings for glass, so when I see reflections like that.  Cool!  yes

  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,668
    edited January 2019

    EA Dancey - Sport Clothing for G3F and G8F by EichhornArt

    I just had to make a quick render of these amazing free clothes!!

     

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  • Pretty much anything to do with GIMP plz if you have the time to show me Sven Dullah

    blush

    As I said, can't compete with the pros regarding post processing, but can show you a couple of tricks I like to use;)

    Took myself the liberty of importing one of your renders into GIMP, great render btw, hope you don't mind?

    After import, first thing I did was go to the layers tab, right click on the layer and duplicate it. Then went to colors in the menu bar, and chose desaturate to make it black&white. There are 3 options, I chose the middle one. Increased contrast a bit. Next, went to filters/blur/gaussian blur and set the amount to around 25. So now I had the bottom layer untouched and the duplicated layer in b&w and blurred. Next I chose filters/artistic/softglow and set glow radius to 18, brightness to 0.62, sharpness 0.76 and applied the softglow to the duplicated layer. In the layer tab I set layer mode to hard light, opacity to 76. Exported under a new name.

    Original:

    Gimped version:

     

     

    image

    This was just a quick one, hope you get the picture;) Try this technique using 1 or more duplicates, various layermodes and amounts of opacity and various filters. Sometimes (mostly by accident) great things can happensmiley

    Oh and a tip: Render you images as png or tiff, jpegs will not have the same quality, there is always some compression/loss in quality.

    Another version where I just toned down the duplicate layer some more (opacity 50):

    image

    Well, I learned something new thank you for sharing this!

    Yeah I learn a lot with this one as well I am also going to youtube to learn more about gimp but it is mostly about taking real life photos and redoing them.

    Myself I want to learn how to do all those special tricks to make my renders like yours @iceDragonArt within GIMP.

    I think a lot of what I do you can do in Gimp. I think the hard part is figureing out what part of Gimp matches the part in Photoshop, because they aren't always called the same thing!

    I know what you mean but I just can not afford Photoshop subscript!!

     

     

    I think a lot of what I do you can do in Gimp. I think the hard part is figureing out what part of Gimp matches the part in Photoshop, because they aren't always called the same thing!

    I know what you mean but I just can not afford Photoshop subscript!!

    I put it off for years.  The only reason I pay for the subscription now is because I use it every single day.  Otherwise, I would have just stuck to something free.

     

    I'm still using Photoshop CS4. Of course, I'm on an older computer running Snowleopard, so I can still run it, but still. 

  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,668

    Pretty much anything to do with GIMP plz if you have the time to show me Sven Dullah

    blush

    As I said, can't compete with the pros regarding post processing, but can show you a couple of tricks I like to use;)

    Took myself the liberty of importing one of your renders into GIMP, great render btw, hope you don't mind?

    After import, first thing I did was go to the layers tab, right click on the layer and duplicate it. Then went to colors in the menu bar, and chose desaturate to make it black&white. There are 3 options, I chose the middle one. Increased contrast a bit. Next, went to filters/blur/gaussian blur and set the amount to around 25. So now I had the bottom layer untouched and the duplicated layer in b&w and blurred. Next I chose filters/artistic/softglow and set glow radius to 18, brightness to 0.62, sharpness 0.76 and applied the softglow to the duplicated layer. In the layer tab I set layer mode to hard light, opacity to 76. Exported under a new name.

    Original:

    Gimped version:

     

     

    image

    This was just a quick one, hope you get the picture;) Try this technique using 1 or more duplicates, various layermodes and amounts of opacity and various filters. Sometimes (mostly by accident) great things can happensmiley

    Oh and a tip: Render you images as png or tiff, jpegs will not have the same quality, there is always some compression/loss in quality.

    Another version where I just toned down the duplicate layer some more (opacity 50):

    image

    Well, I learned something new thank you for sharing this!

    Yeah I learn a lot with this one as well I am also going to youtube to learn more about gimp but it is mostly about taking real life photos and redoing them.

    Myself I want to learn how to do all those special tricks to make my renders like yours @iceDragonArt within GIMP.

    I think a lot of what I do you can do in Gimp. I think the hard part is figureing out what part of Gimp matches the part in Photoshop, because they aren't always called the same thing!

    I know what you mean but I just can not afford Photoshop subscript!!

     

     

    I think a lot of what I do you can do in Gimp. I think the hard part is figureing out what part of Gimp matches the part in Photoshop, because they aren't always called the same thing!

    I know what you mean but I just can not afford Photoshop subscript!!

    I put it off for years.  The only reason I pay for the subscription now is because I use it every single day.  Otherwise, I would have just stuck to something free.

     

    I'm still using Photoshop CS4. Of course, I'm on an older computer running Snowleopard, so I can still run it, but still. 

    Are you on a Mac puter? Just not sure what snowlepard is Tramp Graphics

  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,668

    Here is one I did for PC+ 

    Titled: Zero Landing

    Zando was supposed to make the trip from the Island to the cove before his mother woke up. He got about half way to the cove and a strange storm rose up. About mid way through the day his canue washed up on shore without Zando.

  • Sven DullahSven Dullah Posts: 7,621

    Here is one I did for PC+ 

    Titled: Zero Landing

    Zando was supposed to make the trip from the Island to the cove before his mother woke up. He got about half way to the cove and a strange storm rose up. About mid way through the day his canue washed up on shore without Zando.

    Aaaw what a sad sad story indeedsurprise I'd like to think he somehow made it, miraculously saved by a Great Whitesmiley Nice one:)

     

  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,668

    Here is one I did for PC+ 

    Titled: Zero Landing

    Zando was supposed to make the trip from the Island to the cove before his mother woke up. He got about half way to the cove and a strange storm rose up. About mid way through the day his canue washed up on shore without Zando.

    Aaaw what a sad sad story indeedsurprise I'd like to think he somehow made it, miraculously saved by a Great Whitesmiley Nice one:)

     

    Thanks Sven for the nice comment!

    I would like to think he was saved by the Great White as well but alas he was not he was blown away by the storm to god knows where!!!

    That story and render was inspired by a T.V show called "Fantasy Island"

    I was trying to find the double sided Canues they have in that show but the only thing I could find was that canue I used.

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,548

    Great perspective on the lost canoe.  It makes it feel even more desolate and hopeless.  Nicely done!

  • mori_mannmori_mann Posts: 1,152

    That last one makes you wonder what happened. And hope agains hoping that there's a happy ending somewhere :)

  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,668

    Great perspective on the lost canoe.  It makes it feel even more desolate and hopeless.  Nicely done!

    Thanks for the nice comment @IceDragonArt!

     

    mori_mann said:

    That last one makes you wonder what happened. And hope agains hoping that there's a happy ending somewhere :)

    I do not think there is a happy ending to this story mori_mann Thanks for the nice comment!

  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,668
    edited January 2019

    Titled:Cassie and Taylor Sisterly Love

    Titled: Happy Hour

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  • Sven DullahSven Dullah Posts: 7,621

    Here is one I did for PC+ 

    Titled: Zero Landing

    Zando was supposed to make the trip from the Island to the cove before his mother woke up. He got about half way to the cove and a strange storm rose up. About mid way through the day his canue washed up on shore without Zando.

    Aaaw what a sad sad story indeedsurprise I'd like to think he somehow made it, miraculously saved by a Great Whitesmiley Nice one:)

     

    Thanks Sven for the nice comment!

    I would like to think he was saved by the Great White as well but alas he was not he was blown away by the storm to god knows where!!!

    That story and render was inspired by a T.V show called "Fantasy Island"

    I was trying to find the double sided Canues they have in that show but the only thing I could find was that canue I used.

    Maybe you can use this...Iray mats but should be convertable:)

    https://www.daz3d.com/canoes

  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,668
    edited January 2019

    Here is one I did to check out the new to me shader for the Pergola.

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  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,668

    Here is one I did for PC+ 

    Titled: Zero Landing

    Zando was supposed to make the trip from the Island to the cove before his mother woke up. He got about half way to the cove and a strange storm rose up. About mid way through the day his canue washed up on shore without Zando.

    Aaaw what a sad sad story indeedsurprise I'd like to think he somehow made it, miraculously saved by a Great Whitesmiley Nice one:)

     

    Thanks Sven for the nice comment!

    I would like to think he was saved by the Great White as well but alas he was not he was blown away by the storm to god knows where!!!

    That story and render was inspired by a T.V show called "Fantasy Island"

    I was trying to find the double sided Canues they have in that show but the only thing I could find was that canue I used.

    Maybe you can use this...Iray mats but should be convertable:)

    https://www.daz3d.com/canoes

    Thanks for the link Sven I am going to pick them up tomorrow!!

  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,668
    edited February 2019

    Any and all comments/Advice is welcome!

    Titled: Guardian Kitteh

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  • Pretty much anything to do with GIMP plz if you have the time to show me Sven Dullah

    blush

    As I said, can't compete with the pros regarding post processing, but can show you a couple of tricks I like to use;)

    Took myself the liberty of importing one of your renders into GIMP, great render btw, hope you don't mind?

    After import, first thing I did was go to the layers tab, right click on the layer and duplicate it. Then went to colors in the menu bar, and chose desaturate to make it black&white. There are 3 options, I chose the middle one. Increased contrast a bit. Next, went to filters/blur/gaussian blur and set the amount to around 25. So now I had the bottom layer untouched and the duplicated layer in b&w and blurred. Next I chose filters/artistic/softglow and set glow radius to 18, brightness to 0.62, sharpness 0.76 and applied the softglow to the duplicated layer. In the layer tab I set layer mode to hard light, opacity to 76. Exported under a new name.

    Original:

    Gimped version:

     

     

    image

    This was just a quick one, hope you get the picture;) Try this technique using 1 or more duplicates, various layermodes and amounts of opacity and various filters. Sometimes (mostly by accident) great things can happensmiley

    Oh and a tip: Render you images as png or tiff, jpegs will not have the same quality, there is always some compression/loss in quality.

    Another version where I just toned down the duplicate layer some more (opacity 50):

    image

    Well, I learned something new thank you for sharing this!

    Yeah I learn a lot with this one as well I am also going to youtube to learn more about gimp but it is mostly about taking real life photos and redoing them.

    Myself I want to learn how to do all those special tricks to make my renders like yours @iceDragonArt within GIMP.

    I think a lot of what I do you can do in Gimp. I think the hard part is figureing out what part of Gimp matches the part in Photoshop, because they aren't always called the same thing!

    I know what you mean but I just can not afford Photoshop subscript!!

     

     

    I think a lot of what I do you can do in Gimp. I think the hard part is figureing out what part of Gimp matches the part in Photoshop, because they aren't always called the same thing!

    I know what you mean but I just can not afford Photoshop subscript!!

    I put it off for years.  The only reason I pay for the subscription now is because I use it every single day.  Otherwise, I would have just stuck to something free.

     

    I'm still using Photoshop CS4. Of course, I'm on an older computer running Snowleopard, so I can still run it, but still. 

    Are you on a Mac puter? Just not sure what snowlepard is Tramp Graphics

    Yep. An old 1.83 GHz Mac Mini with OZX Snowleopard. 

  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,668

    Pretty much anything to do with GIMP plz if you have the time to show me Sven Dullah

    blush

    As I said, can't compete with the pros regarding post processing, but can show you a couple of tricks I like to use;)

    Took myself the liberty of importing one of your renders into GIMP, great render btw, hope you don't mind?

    After import, first thing I did was go to the layers tab, right click on the layer and duplicate it. Then went to colors in the menu bar, and chose desaturate to make it black&white. There are 3 options, I chose the middle one. Increased contrast a bit. Next, went to filters/blur/gaussian blur and set the amount to around 25. So now I had the bottom layer untouched and the duplicated layer in b&w and blurred. Next I chose filters/artistic/softglow and set glow radius to 18, brightness to 0.62, sharpness 0.76 and applied the softglow to the duplicated layer. In the layer tab I set layer mode to hard light, opacity to 76. Exported under a new name.

    Original:

    Gimped version:

     

     

    image

    This was just a quick one, hope you get the picture;) Try this technique using 1 or more duplicates, various layermodes and amounts of opacity and various filters. Sometimes (mostly by accident) great things can happensmiley

    Oh and a tip: Render you images as png or tiff, jpegs will not have the same quality, there is always some compression/loss in quality.

    Another version where I just toned down the duplicate layer some more (opacity 50):

    image

    Well, I learned something new thank you for sharing this!

    Yeah I learn a lot with this one as well I am also going to youtube to learn more about gimp but it is mostly about taking real life photos and redoing them.

    Myself I want to learn how to do all those special tricks to make my renders like yours @iceDragonArt within GIMP.

    I think a lot of what I do you can do in Gimp. I think the hard part is figureing out what part of Gimp matches the part in Photoshop, because they aren't always called the same thing!

    I know what you mean but I just can not afford Photoshop subscript!!

     

     

    I think a lot of what I do you can do in Gimp. I think the hard part is figureing out what part of Gimp matches the part in Photoshop, because they aren't always called the same thing!

    I know what you mean but I just can not afford Photoshop subscript!!

    I put it off for years.  The only reason I pay for the subscription now is because I use it every single day.  Otherwise, I would have just stuck to something free.

     

    I'm still using Photoshop CS4. Of course, I'm on an older computer running Snowleopard, so I can still run it, but still. 

    Are you on a Mac puter? Just not sure what snowlepard is Tramp Graphics

    Yep. An old 1.83 GHz Mac Mini with OZX Snowleopard. 

    oohhh ok now i get it!!

  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,668
    edited February 2019

    Titled: Cherry Cola's Intro

     

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