The Art of Poser and Photoshop- P12:Before you dive into the first chapter, be sure to download the content and images from . You will see the title of the book in bold and below that, you will find the files you need. Please download the files for each chapter and place them into a main folder named Tutorials. You will be asked to reference the images from that folder as you work through the tutorials throughout the book. Of course you will need Poser Pro and Photoshop CS4 as well | 318 The Art of Poser and Photoshop The Official Guide 18. As you probably already noticed the character starts to appear as if it s coming into the foreground. This is because you have lessened the visual distractions in the background so that the viewer s eye can focus on the compositional element that is most important. In essence the roots create leading lines to the main subject matter. You re now going to add more depth to the composition by altering the values of the sky behind the character so that it becomes richer in tone and greater in contrast. To achieve this effect add a Curves adjustment layer to the sky. Use Figure as an example. Pinch the curve to the base of the histogram on the shadow side to bring out more shadow richness in the lower values. Figure Apply curves to the sky 19. The overall look appears flat so apply a Curves adjustment layer to the overall scene by placing it above the foreground roots layer group. If you take a look at the histogram in the Curves adjustment layer you will notice that most of the tones are positioned over the darker range values. This in effect will make the image look a little dark overall and it will be nice to allow more highlights to establish a 3D look. To achieve this effect pinch the curve so that you increase the highlights in the image. As you can see in Figure having a stronger shadow and stronger highlight allows the imagery to jump out with a more textured look. Chapter 6 Image Based Lighting in Poser Pro 319 Figure Add another Curves adjustment layer to the overall scene 20. With the highlights coming from behind the figure you need to establish shadow details falling off of the object toward the foreground. This will also help everything look more three-dimensional. Above the curve layer that you ve just created create the new layer and change its blend mode to Overlay. The Overlay blend mode magnifies the strength of black and white tones on the layer but has no effect on medium
