From the course: Maya and Arnold: Exterior Lighting and Rendering
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Adjusting the water - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya and Arnold: Exterior Lighting and Rendering
Adjusting the water
- [Instructor] Now, just like with any image, you can select out parts of the image to enhance it individually. One of the areas that you may want to work with is this water feature which has a light behind it, it is kind of a light source. You may want to dim it or brighten it, however you see fit. And so let's go ahead and do that. So, we want to select this, but first we need to basically make a copy of it so I'm going to select my hero layer and just go duplicate layer. And then I'm going to, let's drag that up basically to the top and we can rename this water. Now, at this point, this layer is basically just my original render so you can actually kind of see how much we've changed this and that's kind of nice. But we just want to affect the water itself so I'm going to turn this on and turn on my selection layer and let's do select color range and just put our eye dropper on that yellow selection and just turn…
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