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Photomontage

Chapter 8

Photomontage Lighting

8.1 Introduction

In this chapter, you see all the intricacies of lighting a photomontage scene. Once the scene is lit, you will then adjust the preapplied materials and their parameters.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to:

   Create a Daylight System in the scene

   Match the sun direction and intensity in the scene with the background

   Match material brightness with the background

   Photomontage the rendered image in Photoshop

8.2 Units in the Scene

In this scene, the units are set to meters. Some previous projects in this book have used millimeters. When you open the files in this chapter, ...

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