{"id":11968,"date":"2019-10-31T05:27:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T05:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=11968"},"modified":"2019-10-31T05:27:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T05:27:55","slug":"poser-and-topaz-clean-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2019\/10\/31\/poser-and-topaz-clean-3\/","title":{"rendered":"De-grunge 1: Poser and Topaz Clean 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the absence of a good ‘Matcap’ script for Poser, a strong scrubbing with the Topaz 3 Photoshop plugin remains the best way I know of to quickly strip grunge off default textures. While retaining colours and a level of crispness. The user saves out a Preview render of just the colours, rendered under a flat IBL light. Then loads this render to Photoshop, where it goes through Topaz Clean 3.<\/p>\n

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For models and characters that are used repeatedly in comics production, one could also run Topaz on the Firefly materials themselves, and thus make an ad hoc<\/em> set of textures more suited to tooning. <\/p>\n

A matcap script would examine each texture in a scene and then automatically replace it with a good approximation of the average colour for that material zone. The effect would be visible in real-time Preview mode, and might even have a limit — within which the darkness or lightness of each replacement colours would be constrained. Thus preventing jet blacks or too pale colours.<\/p>\n

While we’re waiting for that, Topaz is a moderately-costly $30 — but might just be less on the forthcoming Black Friday \/ Cyber Monday weekend. There may be something in the free Krita’s G’Mic filters that can do this, but the great advantage of a Photoshop plugin is that it can be automated via Actions.<\/p>\n

Update: Sadly at summer 2021 Topaz Clean 3.x appears to have been taken off the market, so that Topaz can focus on their AI software. It is not in their $90 Topaz Studio 2, but was in the earlier Studio 1 which ran on Windows 7 up and could also do batch. It may have been removed from Studio 2 due to Windows 10 problems?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the absence of a good ‘Matcap’ script for Poser, a strong scrubbing with the Topaz 3 Photoshop plugin remains the best way I know of to quickly strip grunge off default textures. While retaining colours and a level of crispness. The user saves out a Preview render of just the colours, rendered under a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-poser","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}