Post-Producing Your Architectural Visualizations in Photoshop and V-Ray
In this series of lessons, we will learn post-production techniques using V-Ray and Photoshop. Software required: 3ds Max 2012, Photoshop CS5, V-Ray 2.40.03.
What you'll learn
In this series of lessons, we will learn post-production techniques using V-Ray and Photoshop. We will learn how to set up V-Ray elements and assign, note, and manage material and object IDs. We will then set up the Photoshop file, using V-Ray Elements to enhance the basic rendering. Finally, we will add entourage elements and make them sit within the scene and use blending layers to enhance the final output. Software required: 3ds Max 2012, Photoshop CS5, V-Ray 2.40.03.
Table of contents
- Setting up V-Ray Elements 10m
- Assigning Material Ids 9m
- Assigning Object Ids 8m
- Photoshop File Setup 11m
- Setting up the Background Image 13m
- Using Global Illumination 12m
- Enhancing the Quality of Lighting 12m
- Further V-Ray Lighting Elements and Shadows 10m
- Enhancing Our Reflections 13m
- Enhancing Our Refractions 5m
- Adding Ambient Occlusion to the Scene 6m
- Adding Entourage: Plants 11m
- Adding Entourage: People and Final Adjustments 10m
- Completing the Image 7m
About the author
Stuart Jackson is a professional architectural visualizer with over a decade of experience in the field. He has worked in-house at a number of international architects' practices on a diverse range of projects including residential, mixed-use, and corporate interiors as well as for major housing developers in the UK, interior designers, and private individuals on commissions ranging from planning assistance to restaurant interiors. For the last three years he has been working freelance and durin... more