Bright Eyes - Moist Lips

These operations were carried out on the PC Windows version of Bryce 3D Rev 3.1


When you are rendering a close-up of a Poser face the eyes and lips become more prominent and look very flat. There is no highlight in the eyes and no moistness on the lips and as a result the rendered image looks very flat. Well you can make the eyes look bright and the lips moist by using a second texture map.
Another point to remember with close-ups is the field of view of the camera lens. With the default value of 60 the face is distorted when this close - the ears disappear around the back of the head. For this image the FOV is set to 25 for a more natural look.
First import your figure, position it and apply a standard Poser texture map.
For details on how to do this see my Tutorial 11 regarding this.
Now load that same texture map into Photoshop or other image editing software. You will notice that all the "wet bits" are grouped together in the top right corner of the texture map. Here they are outlined in red.

In your image editor, black out all the "wet bits" and white out all the remainder of the image as shown at the left.
Now use Save As ... to save this image under a different name - eg. Wet Bits.TIF.

Back in Bryce, with your Poser figure selected, click on [M] to enter the Materials Lab. Insert a place marker in column B alongside Specularity as arrowed here. A random texture panel will appear. Click on the P button and then click on the pinkish button above it to enter the Picture Editor.

 

 Load your new texture map and the screen should look like this. Now click on Copy under the left thumbnail then click on Paste under the middle thumbnail.
say Yes to the Delete Picture dialogue box.

 

 The Picture Editor screen should now look like this.
Click on the check mark and exit the Picture Editor.
Click again on the checkmark to exit the Materials Lab.

Now render your image and notice that now there is a shine in the eyes and the lips are moist and shiny.
This image has had some of the contours softened and the eyelashes detailed in Photoshop.

Have fun!

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