Conclusion


Even if you only skimmed this eLin discussion, getting the idea from the figures, you have engaged with a complex, bewildering concept: The color model you have used in After Effects and Photoshop is not an accurate model of how light works in the world.

With this model, some of the most pleasing behaviors and phenomena associated with light come along for free. Without this model, I hate to tell you, but you are left to cheat and compensate, boosting and duplicating instances in an attempt to build up the lighting naturally. Often, however, you succeed only in losing the naturalness of the image, or you abandon the idea for an easier work-around.

If you did follow along, you should have an idea of exactly how radiometrically linear color faithfully re-creates the workings of light in the real world and on the medium that is still best designed to capture that reality: film.

I encourage you to keep learning about this subject and to make your own explorations with the eLin demo and its excellent documentation, which further explores topics introduced here. True linear color and the use of a high dynamic range image pipeline undeniably are where the future of digital compositing lies, and that future can be sampled by After Effects users today.



Adobe After Effects 6. 5 Studio Techniques
Adobe After Effects 6.5 Studio Techniques
ISBN: 0321316207
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 156

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