{"id":17638,"date":"2021-09-17T02:08:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T02:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=17638"},"modified":"2021-09-17T02:08:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T02:08:06","slug":"a-few-gmic-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2021\/09\/17\/a-few-gmic-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"A few G&#8217;MIC tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Note that the free G&#8217;MIC will not launch in Photoshop if the layer being filtered has multiple areas of transparency, as you might get from a .PNG render of a 3D scene. In which case, right-click on the layer and \u2018Convert to Smart Objects\u2019 first. Then G&#8217;MIC will launch for that layer. Apparently the mighty Photoshop still cannot handle more than one area of transparency in a layer, without such a conversion being done. Other similar software has no such problem.<\/p>\n<p>Also, when filtering real-time Poser Comic Book renders <em>for detail<\/em>, such filtering is usually aided by having good quality (rather than muddy \/ low-res) textures loaded. Here&#8217;s how you do that with a Preview render&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/gmic-texture-quality-matters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/gmic-texture-quality-matters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"291\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-17639\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obviously if you&#8217;re instead rendering for <em>a Colour Flats layer<\/em> in your Photoshop layer-stack, then the low-res textures don&#8217;t matter so much. Because you&#8217;re going to scour off all that unwanted grunge and noise with Topaz Clean 3.1 or G&#8217;MIC&#8217;s Comic Book filter. Ready to lay the Lineart layer on top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note that the free G&#8217;MIC will not launch in Photoshop if the layer being filtered has multiple areas of transparency, as you might get from a .PNG render of a 3D scene. In which case, right-click on the layer and \u2018Convert to Smart Objects\u2019 first. Then G&#8217;MIC will launch for that layer. Apparently the mighty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-companion-software","category-freebies","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17638","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=17638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}