Adding Photographic Touches in Post-production - Photographic Rendering with V-Ray for SketchUp - page 337

Boosting the glass reflections a little
Whenever we are working on an image or image sequence in post-production, one
thing we absolutely must do is keep an eye on how the overall look and feel of the
image is being affected by the changes we are making. For instance, one thing we
see happening here is that our reflections, particularly the display cases closest to the
camera, have lost some of their zing. To add a little bit of that back in, let's perform
the following steps:
1. Drag another instance of the Materials_Final.Reflection.exr image into the
main composition stack and set the blending Mode to Add .
2. Dial the effect back to suit by opening up the Transforms options and setting
the layer's Opacity to 5% .
3. As before, we want to add this layer to its own pre-comp by right-clicking on it,
choosing Pre compose from the menu, and calling it Extra Reflections Zing .
As this is another good time at which to save an iteration of our project, let's use the
Save As function and call this iteration Chap10_AE_05.aep .