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Monochrome Iray vs. Adobe Photoshop

billyroscobillyrosco Posts: 56
in Daz Studio Discussion

I was looking through the store today and found the product named Monochrome Iray Does anyone know if there is any particular advantage to using this over Photoshop, when creating monochromatic-style images?

Thanks very much!

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  • DrunkMonkeyProductionsDrunkMonkeyProductions Posts: 1,153

    no post work.

    no need to pay for PS license.

    That's about it.

    The only thing most of these types of presets do is set the Saturation(Render Settings>Tone mapping>Saturation) to 0.

    There might be some other minor Tone mapping adjustments, but those will need to be tweaked on a scene by scene basis anyway.

     

  • aaráribel caađoaaráribel caađo Posts: 691

    Monochrome Iray looks like a bunch of studio set-ups to help give you the looks. Depending on how good you are with lighting, this could be really useful. However, the Monochrome is going to be less powerful than Photoshop or another image editor where you can precisely tone the image.

  • billyroscobillyrosco Posts: 56

    Oh, okay. So some people don't want to use Photoshop (which I understand), and some people's lighting skills are just no good (like ME!). Good points.

  • dijituldijitul Posts: 146

    One thing I'm not sure we can accomplish easily with DAZ iray is black and white RGB channel balancing (or maybe you can if you're not using an HDRI).  This means adjusting the brightness of the red, green, and blue channels to give different monochrome results (from a colored source).  Photoshop makes this easy with Adjustments, but I would assume GIMP can also (a free Photoshop alternative).  It seems the add-on you're referring to also includes a lot of other resources such as backgrounds which might make it more useful.  

  • cm152335cm152335 Posts: 421

    for monochromatic, use Daz "RENDER EDITOR"
    on top menu RENDER > render editor 
    try it

    i'm playing with it to superpose two images to simulate a movement
    there is the possibility to reduce or remove color

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