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The site is under construction, please excuse the dust, errrr... pixels

I've nearly finished the new design and decided it was time to go live with it. It's not perfect by any means, but most of the skeleton is there so I can start populating it with content.

Sharpening Tutorial - Part 2

Introduction

Welcome back! In Part 1 of this tutorial we covered Photoshop’s three most common forms of image sharpening. In this part, we’ll see how we can apply them to our imaging workflow.

Sharpening Tutorial - Part 1

Introduction

Over in the "Post your medium format photos!" thread at Pentax Forums, someone asked about highpass sharpening and how it differs from other sharpening methods.  I don’t claim to be an ex

Progress Entry 08/30/2010

Progress Entry 08/30/2010
Progress Entry 08/30/2010
Progress Entry 08/30/2010
Progress Entry 08/30/2010
Progress Entry 08/30/2010

Had a chance to do some modeling on the couches and chairs. I've then taken the models into zbrush and added stitching, ripples and folds for some displacement. I've attached a render(before displacement) and a zbrush preview. The preview and material are not the final render, but rather a real-time preview to see if I was headed in the right direction.

Progress Entry 07/09/2010

Progress Entry 07/09/2010
Progress Entry 07/09/2010

Had a chance to do a tiny bit more modeling: the fireplace and a few odds and ends. I also started to set up the lighting. It's pretty slow to render for the time being, about 30-40 minutes on my quad-core pc, but it uses physical sky and sun, 9 portal lights with big area shadows, photon global illumination(3mil), final gathering, and 3+ million triangles.

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