Product Name: Mount Rainier Backgrounds Contributing Artist: Rowan54 ************************************************************ Required Products: None -------------------------------------- Required Software: Any program that will open .jpg files. -------------------------------------- Installation Instructions: Install wherever you install 2D backgrounds. -------------------------------------- Important Notes: Wild & Beautiful Mount Rainier backgrounds! Twenty-five photos of Mount Rainier National Park including trails, roads, the mountain itself, woodsy places, and meadows in full bloom. All of the photos, except for four, have a place in front for your characters to stand. The other four (one meadow valley, and three wild "gardens") have plenty of AIR space for flying creatures. The gardens could house creatures such as fairies, or butterflies. The valley (photos 22-25) would be great for dragons. What's Included & Features Images (.jpg) 25 photos 2 at 3000 x 4000 (12 megapixels) 1 at 3200 x 3000 (9600 megapixels) 22 at 4000 x 3000 (12 megapixels) 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\ Mount Rainier Backgrounds ReadMe.txt \Mount Rainier Backgrounds\ Rainier_01_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_02_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_03_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_04_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_05_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_06_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_07_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_08_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_09_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_10_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_11_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_12_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_13_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_14_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_15_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_16_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_17_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_18_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_19_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_20_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_21_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_22_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_23_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_24_Rowan54.jpg Rainier_25_Rowan54.jpg