Photoworks questions
Photoworks questions
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I am new to Photoworks. I ordered the Selfpaced User Guide from my var but it's still in back order.
Is it possible to turn off my preview window? Every little change I do I have to wait for the preview window to come up and do a useless rendering. Rendering is set as deferred in the preview window.
I am trying to get a shiny stainless steel #4 finish look. Can I get some suggestions at how to set material properties, illumination, lights etc.? Imagine a cube of 100 x 100 x 100 inch madeout of 304 stainless steel sheets polished to #4, in a bright room.
Whatever I do I get something brownish, a bit dark.
Is it possible to turn off my preview window? Every little change I do I have to wait for the preview window to come up and do a useless rendering. Rendering is set as deferred in the preview window.
I am trying to get a shiny stainless steel #4 finish look. Can I get some suggestions at how to set material properties, illumination, lights etc.? Imagine a cube of 100 x 100 x 100 inch madeout of 304 stainless steel sheets polished to #4, in a bright room.
Whatever I do I get something brownish, a bit dark.






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Download my preseantion from SolidWorks World (PhotoWorks 2007 this changes everything)and see if that is the metal look you are trying to achieve. You can find this at my website www.robrodriguez.com in the PhotoWorks area.
Rob Rodriguez CSWP
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I'm betting the brownish cast is coming from the environment you set up--either image-mapped or colored walls, etc. You can change those to a neutral gray to remove the color cast from indirect lighting. (White or Black walls are usually too dramatic and don't lend enough ambiance to make sense of what you see--or the white blows away detail by its brightness.)
Jeff Mowry
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SilasH, Mike Wilson's tutorial is good. I followed it step by step but was not able to get the shinny chrome teapot shown on page 3.
Rob, I was sure there should be a way to turn the preview window off but I couldn't find it in the Photoworks options, where it should have been. I do have 2007 so I guess the only way is to toggle it off. I'm fine with that.
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This is something strange:
I rendered a scene using a blue gradient bakground. Looked fine. My object was grey.
Then I changed the background to grey. Rendered it. Not enough contrast.
I went back to the blue background. Rendered it again and I got something different then the first render. The faces of my object were blue.
Saved my file. Opened it again. Did a render. I got again the first picture.
Same file, two renders, two results. A bit discouraging.