Book Image

Lumion 3D Cookbook

By : Ciro Cardoso
Book Image

Lumion 3D Cookbook

By: Ciro Cardoso

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Lumion 3D Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Painting with Watercolor


Watercolor is a painting technique, which uses pigments that are water soluble. There are some artists that still make amazing architectural visualizations using this technique and although it is quite different from the typical photorealistic renders, the beauty of the watercolor lies within its properties. Colors appear to glow on the paper, whereas, other pigments leave sediments into the painting, bringing uniqueness to the concept we need to deliver. Lumion does a fairly good job with the Watercolor effect.

Getting ready

To completely understand how this effect works, you may want to search for watercolor paintings and illustrations.

How to do it…

To apply the Watercolor effect, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to the Movie or Photo mode.

  2. To add the Watercolor effect, use the New effect button to open the effects library.

  3. You can find the Watercolor effect in the Artistic tab.

  4. The Watercolor effect is immediately applied to your image. For some artists this will be...