From the course: Maya and Arnold: Exterior Lighting and Rendering
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Adjusting shadow and occlusion - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya and Arnold: Exterior Lighting and Rendering
Adjusting shadow and occlusion
- [Instructor] Now that I have my composite stack, I can start to affect my image. So we're going to start off with this Hero Pass and we're going to add ambient occlusion and shadow. So I'm going to switch on my ambient occlusion pass. And as you can see, it's a very different, it's mostly white and gray, but we want to basically lay this into the original image so we can adjust that ambient lighting. Now we can do this, using what are called blending modes in Photoshop. So if I keep my AO layer selected, click on this, you'll see that, we have a number of different blending modes. In fact, if I step through these, you can see how they were, So Darken, Multiply, Color, Linear Burn, Lightens and so on. So each one of these has a different effect. Now the one I want is basically just, Multiply. So I'm going to go ahead and select that, and then we can adjust it by just adjusting this opacity. How much of this do we…
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