clipka wrote:
> What I see in the shot could go well as tiny ripples in the sand, which I'd
> consider fitting if the letters were intended to be roughly man-sized (a bit
> taller maybe).
> 
> It doesn't work for sand grains.
> 
OK
> From my experience, "bumps 0.5" works quite good; scale should be such that the
> bump "frequency" is approximately 1 bump per 1-2 pixels; bigger scales tend to
> look more like ripples, while smaller scales may drown in anti-aliasing.
> 
> Another trick to add to the graininess is to scatter tiny spheres on the ground
> where it's in focus (they need quite some tweaking to get right though), as was
> done in this shot:
> 
> http://www.tc-rtc.co.uk/imagenewdisplay/stills/207/After_The_Storm.html
> 
Now this is something I'm going to try! Brilliant graininess

John
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