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title: "Dragon Compositing"
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### Compositing

Thankfully, the render came out of RenderMan very nicely, and it didn't need much fixing in compositing. I decided to use Photoshop because I've used it for a long time and I’m pretty comfortable with it.

The background is a simple soft gradient, with adjusted light and shadow contrasts on the dragon. I also increased the brightness in a few areas and did some post-processing. After a minimal touch of color grading … voila!



> 📝 Tip 1: Keep it simple … less is more.

> 📝 Tip 2: Keep the original image to compare it with your changes.

> 📝 Tip 3: Don't over sharpen your image, as it kills realism. Like saturation, this is an effect that people like to exaggerate to the detriment of their image, as a real lens is not as sharp as a computer generated image.


![sorindar-final.jpg](media://d9d7054d-b04f-423a-a304-999071c9a155)

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