Depth of field

[Aluviel Nakamura]

Hello all,

I dont know where to place this question except in the technical dep. of the forums.  I need a really good step by step tutorial on how to get that 3-d look using DOF when taking photos.

I get bits here and there about seting the enviroment and playing with graphics etc. If there is a step by step tutorial out there could someone give a link or paste in the propper settings?

 

Many thanks

 

Luvi

[Ciaran Laval]

Have you checked out Starwberry Singh's Tutorial?

 

http://strawberrysingh.com/2010/04/12/tutorial-taking-high-res-blog-snapshots-for-intermediate-users/

 

 

[Aluviel Nakamura]

TYVm I will check it out!

[Aluviel Nakamura]

I appreciate the link to the tutorial. It doesnt cover anything about depth of field. : (

[Ciaran Laval]

Try Torley, this is a page with details on Depth of Field and there are some video tutorials as well as links to other tutorials.

 

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Depth_of_field

[Orca Flotta]

AFAIK DOF only works in photos when you stay on the default resolution.

So say my res is 1920x1030 but for photos I usually up it to 5760x3090. And swooosh, the DOF doesn't show anymore. :smileysurprised::smileysad:

[Coby Foden]

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Orca Flotta wrote:

AFAIK DOF only works in photos when you stay on the default resolution.

So say my res is 1920x1030 but for photos I usually up it to 5760x3090. And swooosh, the DOF doesn't show anymore. :smileysurprised::smileysad:

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I tested with Firestorm 4.4.0.33720.  DOF works also in high resolution snapshots.  The trick to do is that you need increase the DOF quite a lot so that it will show also in the high res snapshot.  It's a bit "try and see" method as we cannot see the high res image on the viewer window.  But it does work.

By the way, SL viewer is a bit cumbersome to use with DOF as all the DOF adjustments are in the debug settings only.

In Firestorm there is that great "Phototools" window where one can adjust various DOF settings (and many other things too) on the fly.  There are many videos on youtube how to use the Firestorm Phototools.

Here's one tutorial of DOF and glow: