Postcard From The Jurassic by frogdot
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Description
Here's a tip if you want it. In Bryce, after the intial render, I highlight the foreground objects (island with trees, vines, flowers, beach and girl), then do an object render, which will serve to make a mask in postwork.
In Photoshop, I make a duplicate layer of the render and set the layer mode to "Screen". This lightens everything. Back off the opacity to approx. 50%, or whatever you like. Then, using the object render, I select the white parts using the magic wand tool and then erase that part of the Screen layer.
This makes the distant scene fade like haze, but more evenly than Bryce haze.
This method should work in Paint Shop Pro too.

Comments (26)
Pretty!
Beautiful.
Excellent card. Thanks for the info also.
awesome scene.
Nice post card superb work !!
Beautiful scene...as usual Dave
Beautiful scene!! :)
Beautiful scene..well done!
Excellent.
Very nicely done!! I like how you framed the scene with the foliage in the foreground. Really good composition. :)
Thanks for the tip! Great scene, tho.
Beautiful scene! Great tip, I may try that in DS ;)
What a paradisiacal setting . . . at first glance! The smoking volcano is a nice touch :) Thanks for the tip, Poser outputs a z-depth map which would be ideal for this, will definitely try it!
Beautiful scdene. Thanks for the info, Dave, Corrie
I've also had fun with Altitude and Distance renders! excellent
Thanks for the tip!
Great scene and great tip indeed. Thanks!
Great looking image and thanks for that masking tip! I could have done with that! Cheers!
Great scene and cool mini-tutorial!
Excellent and beautiful work.....!!!
Great render and timely tip. I was just yesterday thinking of ways to get extra populations into my Terregen 2 Free app as it only allows 3 and remembered "Multi Pass Rendering" from my Imagine3D days where it was used to speed up post compositing of frames by having all items rendered on separate layers with the look you want to start from and tweak in PhotoShop. Vue 6 and up already support output to layered .psd files but I really can't afford that so am going to figure it out for TG2.Thanks for the memory jog Dave.. ..
beautiful work. going to have to give that tip A try. thankyou hugss
Beautiful scene! Thanks for the tip.
I love this!
Thx Frogdot to share your technic (tip) with us! I will try it... The result in this image was excellent. Congrat!
Wonderful image, thanks for the lesson.