✨How I edit my Blender Renders or Game Screenshots✨
Very simple edit I use for most of my art. You'll need: Photoshop🥲
1 - Open your image in Ps. First thing I do is reduce the size of it if it's more than 4K pixels to fit in my Social Media.
2 - Press Ctrl+Shift+X to open 'Liquify' filter and use this pointing finger to fix everything that looks inhuman or weird to you. It can also be used to smooth sharp edges of quirky polygons, face expression or mesh imperfections. I fixed Sherlock's arms by stretching the part of sleeves so they looked more human like. Also Aidan's tie looked a bit out of place.
3 - Once you're happy with your fixes, go to Filters and pick Sharpen - Smart Sharpen. And let it do what it does :D
4 - Most of the time, I'm not entirely happy with the Blender lighting I have. I want to set even more dramatic colors or more vivid atmosphere and to do so I use Ps LUTs. To do so - go to the right bottom corner and click on that two-color circle. Pick 'Color Lookup'.
5 - Basically 3D LUT works like Instagram filters. You can download plenty of them across the internet. I use these and here you can watch a tutorial about how to use/install and apply LUTs. Also it has a link to the free LUTs and many more other Ps goodies.
6 - Now as LUT is applied with 50% of opacity and 50% of Fill (so it won't look TOO dramatic) I can focus on fixing some miner details like texture glitches, mesh holes etc. I do it on the new layer and usually use a soft Brush or a Patch tool.
7 - Now the fun time! Merge your layers and duplicate the image. Double click on the duplicated image to open Layer Style. Look for Channels. It's your color channels. Uncheck one of three boxes. Only one! But unchecking each one of them will give you unique Chromatic aberration effects. I picked G (Green) to have Green/Purple Chromatic aberration effect. (Unchecking R gives Red/Blue; B - gives Blue/Yellow, like Ukrainian flag ;D Chromatic aberration effect)
8 - Now to apply Chromatic aberration - move your image with arrows left or right. I move it very lightly, just to give enough depth, but not to turn it into a broken TV screen :D
9 - Merge the layers and go to Filters once again, pick 'Filter Gallery'.
10 - My final touch is... g-r-a-i-n-i-n-g. Look for Distort - Diffuse Glow. Set Glow Amount to 0, Clear Amount to Max and Graininess to 1 or 2 considering how big your picture is. For me it's 2. Apply and...
11 - There you go! You did it! :D
