What I meant by using Photoshop, was not post processing to add waves along
the shores via Photoshop, but to use it to create the a bump_map to put as a
texture for the sea.

I did use post-processing for the lens-flare and increase the contrast.





> Bob Hughes wrote:
> >
> > I meant to say, afterthought actually, that using a post-process, like
> > digitally painting a shoreline, isn't exactly treason you all know I
> > hope. I myself have done touch-ups now and then, however usually on
> > scales of a mere dozens of pixels. All out painting onto a render isn't
> > going to break a law anyway, except maybe the law of art ;] since I
> > realize many of us 3D modeller/raytracer/renderer people can be clumsy
> > oafs with a paintbrush. Nothing personal, just summing up what I've
> > heard people say about themselves.
>
>   Real pov snobs would never admit to touching up one of their images.
> It just isn't someting you say in public without risking rejection by
> ones peers. That is unless of course the effect you produce is so
> completely astonishing that they can overlook it to find out how you
> accomplished it.
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
>
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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