muhamedthufail Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Hi ... Everyone Am having a problem with a Scene in VRay .. I've changed my Gamma settings as per a tutorial and my Colormapping is set to 'Reinhard' with a Gamma of 1.6 .. The problem is that .. when i try to export it from MAX to PS ... The image seems pretty dark .. As if Gamma is set 1.00 Please Help .. Thanks in advance Here's The images https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-G13QNhP_X70/T8Ry6beAjXI/AAAAAAAAAOc/egkTRtnQxfo/s1024/MAX.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-P8b_0AFazVA/T8Ry4E2agEI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/cBikK9mYMc4/s800/PS.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-zBtC7GAwuE8/T8Ry6DwfwsI/AAAAAAAAAOY/5oz-oKMF13s/s640/GAMMA.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Thomas Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 It's because your output gamma is set to 1.0, for 8-bit image types (jpg, tga, etc.) you should set this to 2.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
off the cuffe Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 personally I save out all images with the gamma setting from max set to 1.0 output, only because if you set this at 2.2 output in max you don't have room to move in post as the gamma is already burnt into the image.when importing into photoshop or AE, you can use the SRGB profile that comes with the image. ( need to change your preferences in photoshop so it will know to ask you first before opening the file) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Thomas Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 It is not the gamma settings that limit you in post, it is rendering to an 8-bit file format rather than a 16 or 32-bit format. The correct way to set up the gamma preferences is an output of 2.2 for 8-bit and 1.0 for 32-bit. I only recommended setting the output to 2.2 because the images posted were jpegs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
off the cuffe Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Stephen your right, forgot to mention that.32 bit is the way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhamedthufail Posted May 29, 2012 Author Share Posted May 29, 2012 (edited) Thank you all for your replies ... I usually export rendered image as TIFF or PNG .. and they were in 16 or 32bit the 'output' value was 2.2 ... i changed it to 1.00 because i saw it in a tutorial and also setting the gamma in 'Reinhard' to 2.2 .... and BTW i didnt use VRay VFB to render .. This is the Link to tutorial ... Please check http://www.cg-blog.com/index.php/2012/05/17/add-gamma-vray.htm?awt_l=APNO.&awt_m=3Xq3ofD7Utxclu_ Edited May 29, 2012 by muhamedthufail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhamedthufail Posted June 1, 2012 Author Share Posted June 1, 2012 Thank you stephen ... I didnt understand first ... I had to override the Gamma value to 2.2 when saving the file .... The problem is solved now ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhamedthufail Posted June 1, 2012 Author Share Posted June 1, 2012 I just had to override the Gamma value when saving the file ... Sorry for the trouble ... i didnt understand first ... Thank you all for helping me ... Really appreciate it .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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