adding a sky in post

[Dave Buckley]

hi guys

 

started to look at uses of post production, but was wondering which elements of the final render that you guys add in post???

 

so far the only things i have tried is increasing contrast in post (especially when using area lights)

 

and also adding a sky in post.

 

what else do you guys do in your arch viz/design viz renders?

 

To do the sky, all i did was render out my scene without the physical sky and then save it as a .tga file i then deleted the inverted alpha channel in photoshop and placed my new sky on a different layer.

 

is this correct methodology??

[womble]

I can heartily recoment the Gnomology tutorial 'Photoshop for Production' or something along those lines. You can purchase the 2 relevent sections 'Sky Replacement parts 1 & 2' for about $6 each and they're really good. They get a little bit boring as he shows a lot of his work in real time, for example masking round tree's, but I found them useful. If you're willing to spend a bit more you should just get the whole dvd because it's all quite good.