Stills, retouching and real-time 3D. Writes about color management, asset pipelines and getting heavy visual work into a browser.
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Deciding whether a project should be rendered in a real-time engine or an offline renderer. Where most projects go wrong The usual mistakes: Choosing by prefere...
Working with external studios and freelancers on modeling, texturing and rendering. Why does it matter? Outsourcing scales capacity, but only with clear specifi...
Organizing render outputs, versions and passes across a project. At a glance Versions renders are produced repeatedly with changes Passes multi-pass output crea...
Building a reusable library of product models that supports imagery, configurators and augmented reality. What is at stake One model can serve many outputs, but...
Selecting a studio or freelancer for modeling, rendering or animation work. The key figures Specialisms product, architectural and character work need different...
Clipping paths and cut-outs are the quiet workhorses of commercial imagery. Every time a product sits on a clean white page, floats over a colored banner, or ap...
Color management is the discipline of using profiles and a consistent working space so that a color looks the same on your screen, in a customer's browser and o...
Non-destructive editing is the practice of building an image edit out of layers, masks, adjustment layers and smart objects so that every decision stays reversi...
Product photography retouching is the work that turns raw studio captures into images a catalog, a web shop or a marketplace can actually use: cleaning dust and...
Portrait retouching ethics is the practice of deciding how far to alter a person's appearance, and then being explicit about those decisions with the person in...
Every image your business uses lives inside a container, and that container decides more than most people realize. Image file formats determine how much detail...
Image compositing is the craft of combining elements from several images into one picture that reads as a single photograph. A product placed into a location it...
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