From the course: Creating Product Shots in Maya

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Blurring a file map

Blurring a file map

As you can see, we're getting fairly well defined reflections from the environment here. I'd like to blur that a bit, so it's not quite as defined. One way we could do it, would be to change the glossiness, of the table top material. We could reduce the glossiness. If we did that, then it would blur the environment, but it would also blur these reflections here, which I don't really want to do. Additionally if we reduce the glossiness you would have to reduce the glossy samples, which would increase our render time. It's much easier to simply blur the environment. Now of course we could take the environment map into Photoshop or other image editing program and blur it there. But that would be a destructive act. And it would be an extra step we have to take. We can actually create the blur effect directly from within Maya. And that would be nondestructive. We can go back and make changes at any time. So let's do that. I'll minimize the render view. And I want to select the environment.…

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