Blending stuff

[Ichi3120]

WTF is that and how i make it, becouse everyone told me you should blend your render to the background so please can someone tell me about that ..thanx

[Romek1uk]

Basically, it's making your render and background 'work together' instead of having a background with a render slapped onto it.

The easiest way to do this is by putting effects over the render as well as under.
Smudging is very effective and easy.
Light sources can help a lot with blending =]
And PhotoFilters and Gradient Maps.

[zangetsuBankai]

an easy way 2 do this would b 2 use the smudge tool around the edges or not so important parts of ur render with the smudge tool but edit its brush settings this gives a much better look XD

[RazerRD]

hmm this has always puzzled me a little too....

can someone give an example of a sig that hasn't been blended. then same sig but with blending. -- i mean the smudging type not adding things on top (cos that effectively changes the sig so not that gr8 an example then)

[Romek1uk]

Originally Posted by RazerRD

hmm this has always puzzled me a little too....

can someone give an example of a sig that hasn't been blended. then same sig but with blending. -- i mean the smudging type not adding things on top (cos that effectively changes the sig so not that gr8 an example then)

Razer, you've seen my wc3 banner right?
That's been smudged

I'll do that now anyway

[RazerRD]

hmm...u smudge just the render layer? or do u merge first then smudge?

[zangetsuBankai]

Originally Posted by RazerRD

hmm...u smudge just the render layer? or do u merge first then smudge?

lol no u dont merge the layers thats not the business

[Romek1uk]

Ok, here it is.
The entire thing is rubbish.. it was just to demonstrate smudging

Spoiler: Render

No Smudging:


Smudged:


I used the basic round brush, with shape dynamics and scattering

[RazerRD]

w8..WTF?!?!!? u simply smudged the render layer...and got THAT!?!!

bloody hell....if id known this sooner.....

anyway THNX ^ ^


EDIT: AC Cloud ^ ^

[Romek1uk]

Originally Posted by RazerRD

w8..WTF?!?!!? u simply smudged the render layer...and got THAT!?!!

bloody hell....if id known this sooner.....

anyway THNX ^ ^


EDIT: AC Cloud ^ ^

Yup. It's that simple

You should practice though. And it doesn't seem to work well with Anime [2-D] sigs

Thanks for the Rep btw