Product Name: Dark Side Skies Contributing Artist: Rowan54 ************************************************************ Required Software: Any program that will open .jpg files. -------------------------------------- Installation Instructions: Install where ever you install 2D backgrounds. -------------------------------------- Previously published at YURdigital and Hivewire3D CONTENTS: 21 pictures at 4000x3000 pixels About 49 Mb total 21 cloud pictures to use as backgrounds in your 3D pictures. Either behind that castle (or house), or as a an exciting background for a dragon in flight. These dark clouds are prefect for aerial warfare, rainy days, and any dark mood. ******************* HINTS AND TIPS: When using 2D backgrounds in Poser, Daz Studio or Photoshop, remember that the light in the photo is the way the light in the photo is going to be. You'll want to match the direction, intensity, and color of the light on your characters and props. Using in Poser In Poser 10 (other Poser versions should be similar): File/Import/Background picture/browse to where you keep the photos. Poser hints: Turn ground plane off. Poser seems to render just the characters, so that you can make layers with shadows and background in an image editor program such as Photoshop. Move lights so the characters are lit the same as the background. Using in DAZ Studio: DAZ Studio 4.9 (64 bit) (other Daz Studio versions shouuld be similar): Windows/Panes/Environment/Browse to where you keep the photos. DAZ Studio hints: Shift the ground plane grid so that it matches the groundplane of the photo, so that the characters don't look like they're floating. Move lights so the characters are lit the same as the background. Digital photos are almost never completely sharp at the 100% size, which is why I provided such large pictures. This way you can reduce them to 50% or 75%, where the sharpness is much higher and still have a large picture. ******************* You MAY use this pack in all of your artwork, personal or commercial You MAY use this pack for scrap booking, both digital and printable - for yourself and for others You MAY use this pack to create your artwork for sale, such as prints You MAY use this pack to make greeting cards, websets, email stationary, etc. so long as they are altered and not redistributed as they are You may not print them out and distribute them as they are or re-distribute these files "as they are" in ANY format. You must use them in your artwork creations - however, they may not be used to make new backgrounds for free or for sale or any similar competing product. ******************* HINTS & TIPS: When using photo backgrounds and inserting other figures into it always try to match the lighting on the figure before insertion. Direction of light, color of light, intensity of light are all important and makes the figure so much more "there". ******************* FILES: Readmes/Rowan54/ Dark_Side_Skies_readme.txt Dark_Side_Skies/ 01_dark_R54.jpg 02_dark_R54.jpg 03_dark_R54.jpg 04_dark_R54.jpg 05_dark_R54.jpg 06_dark_R54.jpg 07_dark_R54.jpg 08_dark_R54.jpg 09_dark_R54.jpg 10_dark_R54.jpg 11_dark_R54.jpg 12_dark_R54.jpg 13_dark_R54.jpg 14_dark_R54.jpg 15_dark_R54.jpg 16_dark_R54.jpg 17_dark_R54.jpg 18_dark_R54.jpg 19_dark_R54.jpg 20_dark_R54.jpg 21_dark_R54.jpg The developer owns the copyright and/or has the rights to distribute all of the content contained within this ZIP file