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Old June 18th, 2008   #17 (permalink)
Brian Bradley
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Default Re: Mental Ray Exposure Modifier

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Originally Posted by crazy homeless guy View Post
But anyway... Can you really correct a floating point to that degree in Combustion?

I have used PhotoShop in the past with floating point files, but decided that the degree to which they were adjustable was dissapointing, and not worth the extra steps. Especially since the DMVC where I learned Lon's camera raw trick, which I do not think works with either EXR's or HDR's.

I have Combustion 4 sitting on my shelf, but have not worked it in to my production work flow yet.
Travis,

Would strongly recomend dusting the discs off and getting it installed!!
For working with floating point files P/shop is pretty cruddy, at least
CS2 was (not tried Cs3 but reports I have read indicate only marginal
improvements) Combustion on the other hand has TONS of tools and
options for working the image into just the look you want. Takes a bit
of learning, but there are enough P/Shop similarities to make it do-able.
Organize some dedicated Post production hard drive space and give it
a go, sure you will be pleased with the extra flexibility you can get in
some situations.

Regards
Bri
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