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Render with a wider dynamic range in cycles to produce photorealistic looking images

To get images that seem more photorealistic, not only a much wider Dynamic Range is needed, but also having the color information desaturate towards white as it would happen in an overexposed ...
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How can I cast artificially darker shadows?

I want to make certain shadows more prominent (using Cycles) without further illuminating the rest of the scene. Example: I have a simple studio with a bowl of fruit and 3-point lighting. The light ...
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What is the the ASC-CDL node?

The color balance node in the compositor can be switched to use the ASC CDL How is it used? How is this different from Lift/Gamma/Gain? How do the Offset, Power, Slope options affect the image?
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Is there a way to adapt False Color to be seen for color blind people?

I have severe red/green protonopia and find the red and green to be the same when I use False Color mode to calibrate lighting exposure. I'm wondering if there is a way to get numeric feedback on ...
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Combine Filmic Blender and "Standard" Film Emulation

Is it possible to combine the very helpful filmic-blender Color Management with the default Blender Color Management? It helps a lot to light the scenes with the filmic contrast settings, but when it ...
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Working around Blender's color management problems & General Confusion [closed]

So, I'm writing this in part because I'm still confused myself, and in part because getting a verified answer in a public place would be a good thing. Blender 2.79b has incorporated some of Sobotka'...
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Can I use my 3D Luts with Flimic?

I found this documentation → How can Blender be augmented to display color critical and accurate results? However, this is outdated and does not work now. How can I use the 3D Luts extracted from the ...
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How can I increase the darkness of shadows without increasing the strength of the lamp? [duplicate]

I want to create a shallow and dim lighting effect around my scene, but I also want the shadows to be slightly darker. Unfortunately the only method I have found to make shadows sharper and darker is ...
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Are the technical details of Filmic available?

I hope this question is acceptable here. I'm impressed by the results of Filmic in Blender, and I would like to do something similar in my own code, which is for processing photographs and doesn't use ...
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How to create a custom colour management profile

I am interested in creating a custom colour management profile. How you can get an image that looks very different depending if you use log or film or false colour, except I want to try and create a ...
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How do I adjust for overexposure using physically based lighting?

I am trying to get my head around physically based lighting in Blender. I read somewhere the Cycles Sun Lamp is measured in W/m² so assuming that bright sunlight is measured at 120000 lux (https://en....
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Highlight compression (Blender/Cycles)

Does anyone have a smooth way of highlight compression in the Blender/Cycles settings, or in Compositor? The only compressor i have found so far is the Tonemap-Node in Compositor, and i find its ...
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How can I export and store light curves?

It is easy do color correction/grading (Add -> Effect Strip -> Adjustment Layer, then Modifiers -> Add Strip Modifier -> Curves). This can be used for instance to give a "sunset look" to an amateur ...
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Sources for filmic blender

I want to implement something like "Filmic Blender" in GLSL. Thus I need the LUT and/or transfer functions in human readable format. Where can I find this. Update: I have found that there are two ...
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How to use 3d LUT for strips in the video sequential editor?

How to use 3d LUT for strips in the video sequential editor? I know that there is no such function. But I think it's possible to create an addon. How can this be done? I do not know the blender api ...
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