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Blender Compositing and Post Processing

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Blender Compositing and Post Processing
Jan, 2014 | 114 pages
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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Blender Compositing and Post Processing
Blender Compositing and Post Processing
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Blender Compositing – Overview
Blender Compositing – Overview
Understanding CG compositing
Getting started
Summary
2
Working with Blender Compositor
Working with Blender Compositor
Architecture
Getting familiar with the compositing user interface
Color management and linear workspace
Handy shortcuts for Blender Compositor
Summary
3
Working with Input and Output Nodes
Working with Input and Output Nodes
How to import or export from a compositor?
Summary
4
Image Manipulation Techniques
Image Manipulation Techniques
Understanding image manipulation
Summary
5
Beyond Grading
Beyond Grading
Kudos
Relighting
The Fresnel effect
Depth of Field
Optical distortions
Motion blur
Texture mapping
Organizing
Summary
6
Alpha Sports
Alpha Sports
What is an Alpha channel?
Alpha modes in Blender
Visualizing alpha in Blender
Significance of alpha in the layering concept
Layering in Blender with the alpha channel
Generating mattes using the ID Mask node
Inverting values
Keying
Summary
Index
Index

Summary

This chapter explained the Blender Compositor's node-based architecture, different types of nodes, and working in linear workspace using color management. The next chapter deals with the in-depth working procedures of input and output nodes available in Blender Compositor.

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