Product Name: Rivers Backgrounds Contributing Artist: Rowan54 -------------------------------------- Installation Instructions: Install where ever you install 2D backgrounds. -------------------------------------- Formerly at Hivewire3D. Twenty-four photos in jpg format of rivers from wild to tame. Plenty of places for boats, rafts, raiding parties, beach parties, fishing expeditions, or people lost in the wilderness. Have fun! Nine photos are 2816x2112 pixels (5.95 megapixels) each The rest are 4000x3000 pixels (12 megapixels) each Locations the photos are from various Washington state rivers. Locations include: Snoqualmie River at Snoqualmie and Fall City. Mill Pond in Snoqualmie. South Fork Sauk River and South Fork Stillaguamish River along various parts of the Mountain Loop Highway including at Red Bridge Campground. -------------------------------------- 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. Poser: To add to Poser 10 (other Poser versions should be similar): File/Import/Background picture/browse to where you keep the photos. 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. DAZ Studio: To add to DAZ Studio 4.10 (64 bit) (other Daz Studio versions should be similar): Windows/Panes/Environment/Browse to where you keep the photos. 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. Rendering 3D characters to add to a background? Here's a quick list of some very basic hints. 1- Make sure the characters are at the same angle as the background. 2- Check that light on the character is close to the same intensity, the same color, and the same angle as what is in the photo. 3- Your characters need shadows so that they don't float. Make a new layer below the character, use a very soft round brush, black, 33% opacity (OR LESS) and brush around the feet and where the character will be touching things. If you can make the shadows realistic, kudos...but for cartoon characters and places it won't show much, a roundy shadow works just fine. ***** 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. -------------------------------------- Files Included in the Product: \ReadMes\Rowan54\ Rivers Backgrounds ReadMe.txt \Rivers Backgrounds\ Rivers_01_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_02_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_03_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_04_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_05_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_06_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_07_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_08_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_09_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_10_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_11_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_12_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_13_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_14_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_15_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_16_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_17_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_18_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_19_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_20_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_21_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_22_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_23_Rowan54.jpg Rivers_24_Rowan54.jpg