Adding Photographic Touches in Post-production - Photographic Rendering with V-Ray for SketchUp - page 334

3. In the Effect Controls panel, we want to set the Input White value for our
Levels effect to 0.94 and then alter the Gamma value to read 0.05 (these
settings will force the blur to appear quite close to the camera).
Our final edit for the ZDepth_Control pre-comp is to come back into the main com-
position and then click on the ZDepth_Control pre-comp eyeball icon to turn the
layer's visibility off.
To get our pseudo DOF effect working, we need to perform the following steps:
1. Select our Reflections Adjustment pre-comp, and from the Layer menu at
the top of the After Effects UI, choose the New option and then Adjustment
Layer from the flyout.
2. Let's give this a clear descriptive name by right-clicking on the adjustment
layer in the stack and then choosing the rename option from the pop-up
menu.
3. Let's name it Adj Layer - Camera lens Blur .
4. We can now type Camera over in the Effects & Presets panel and add the
Camera Lens Blur effect to the adjustment layer.
5. In the control options, set the Blur Radius to 2.5, leave the Shape option set
to Hexagon, and in the Layer dropdown, set it to use the ZDepth_Control
pre-comp.