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Brightness and Contrast Rendering Effect 261
brightening provides a soft highlight to the Blur
effect.
B ri ghten Cur v e—Lets you edit the brightening
curve in the Feather Falloff curve graph.
Blend Curve—Lets you edit the blend curve in the
Feather Falloff curve graph.
Brightness and Contrast
Rendering Effect
Rend ering menu > Effects > Environment and Effects
dialog > Effects panel > Add > Add Effect dialog >
Brightness and Contrast
Above: Or iginal rendering is too dark.
Below: Increasing both brightness and contrast improves
clarity of the rendering.
Brightness and C ontrast a llows you to adjust the
contrastandbrightnessofanimage. Thiscan
be used to match rendered scene objects with
background images or animations.
Inter face
The Brightness and Contrast Parameters rollout
contains the following parameters.
Br ightness—Increases or decreases all color
components (red, green , and blue). Range=0 to
1.0.
Co ntrast—Compresses or expands the latitude
between maximum black and maximum white.
Range=0 to 1.0.
Ignore Background—Applies the effect to
everything in your 3ds Max scene except the
background.
Colo r B a la nce R enderi ng E f fect
Rendering menu > Effects > Environment and Effects
dialog>Effectspanel>Add>AddEffectdialog>Color
Balance
The Color Balance Effect allows you to manipulate
additive/subtractive color tinting through
independent control of RGB channels.