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I'm hardpressed to find any images I make without Colm's lighting :)
After seeing some of his you tube videos on how to use his products, I'm left wondering why Mr Jackson gets what a lot of PA's don't seem to grasp. If people know how to use your software, they are going to be much more primed to buy your products over the other guys stuff where you have to literally figure it out by trial and error, or have to spend inordinate amounts of time looking for info on how to use it (or spend additional cash for that knowledge).
I'm wondering how many sales of Render Studio Iray came about simply because people knew they could easily find out how to use it.
Wow!! they are gorgeous!!
Playing with Colm's new Hi-Key Studio... Trying to go for an edgy fashion, editorial look...
I really like the iray Hi Key set. The only difficulty with it is that I want to use my own background rather than just have it be white. Any ideas on how to do that? I know because the wall and dome are emissive this may not be possible.
I tried adding a diffuse material on the wall and it did not show up in the render. I also tried adding a color and if I remember correctly the background was still white but the color was affecting the character's skin... I didn't try a shader, but I'm guessing that wouldn't work either unless you made it non-emissive. I'll try experimenting with the backdrops from his other sets with the hi key lights at some point. I'm still a DS newbie so I'm so glad Colm makes things as simple as possible and has videos! And makes it fun to experiment without my wanting to pull my hair out!
Yeah, I don't think it is possible although you can add an environment it might interfere with the emissive qualities of the dome. If you render and save as png. It is easier in photoshop to grab the image with the magic wand and add a background, but you'll still get a bit of the white in the edge of the image due to the lightness of the set. Ideally would be great to render with an image in the scene already.
Just stumbled upon this thread, and you're images are fantastic, seeker273! You've got a great coherent, recognizable look going there. I particularly enjoy the colors your process is producing.
- Greg
Yup, that's exactly what I did, used the magic wand for one of my images but it required a lot of extra postwork around the hair strands and decided to just use the white, it kinda worked with the image and for a portrait render, I went arty and painted all around it and even on the image, going for more of part grunge part painterly look. I think this set actually works best for kind of an edgy fashion magazine look or even punk. Colm's promo images obviously look great in hi-key and I'll probably use it for the same types of images...
One trick that can work for selecting things like hair is to find the colour channel that has the most distinction, make a copy of that and adjust its tonal range to make a mask.
I found using a Beauty Canvas & selecting everything related to the character in the node to be the easiest way of removing the white background from these - It seems to take longer to render but there is no messing aound in photo shop removing things so you can just render save as a png & there is no background
Studio also saves a folder with the exr version of the render that you could use.that if you prefer
Its probably not how you are supposed to do things but it worked for me :)
Hmm I haven't done that before /Tottallou. That looks good but what is a beauty canvas?
It's part of Canvases. Look here.
I don't claim to know much about the canvases as they can do a lot more than just remove backgrounds but I have only used them for this type of thing so far :)
The thread barbuilt quotes explains all
I attach the render using one of Serene Nights free backgrounds from the Art Studio Thread so you can see it works - Its grainy as it was a 2 Minute test
Thanks so much! I will try this tonight. Ps I like your render
Hmm I'm afraid the directions sort of lose me after creation of the nodes
Once you have created the node for the Beauty Canvas you should just be able just hit render - The image should appear in the render window as just the character without any of the background items if you have included the character, hair, clothes into the node. Once it completes you can save as PNG and then take it to photoshop for the background.
If you are following the article then you will have several different canvases & you would need to load all the EXR files into photoshop - I have not tried this method yet.
Thanks for trying to help me Tottallou. My render for some reason is black in the background not transparent. I think I'm doing it wrong. But... I guess it isn't white.
Perhaps the Alpha Box is not checked as when I leave it blank I get the black render to
Thank you so much!!!
I'm relatively new to DS and IRAY is absolutely fantastic!
I think that the HiKey set is brilliant for that clean magazine look. You can't really go wrong with Colm, he has a tutorial for this one as well :)
That did the trick! Thanks so much for your help! This looks useful!