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Video is now live at YouTube! I forgot to mention f-stop on the scene cameras and the exposure value chart on that one, so it may be worth looking at the bottom of this one for that even if you wait to watch the video. Here is the infographic I used.  Special thanks to fuseling (https://www.deviantart.com/fuseling) and Lyoness1 (https://www.deviantart.com/lyoness1) for helping me find online resources. This tutorial will discuss adding more realism to your lighting by balancing your light and tone mapping settings.  It is not identical to the YouTube tutorial, but it will cover the same information. I. Render Settings, Default HDR Lighting And Tone Mapping a. Camera And Render Settings First let me discuss th

updated: 6/2 currently: working on doll This morning I came across a thread at DAZ that linked back to a forum post where Catherine (MEC4D) shared her basic skin settings for Iray renders. I copied and saved what she wrote but didn't bookmark the actual page and now I can't find it again for the life of me. I tested these settings in a basic scene and while they are an improvement over what I had, they're still intended to be used with properly prepared textures. Cath creates albedo diffuse maps, normals, and SSS/translucency maps, so none of us are going to get renders like hers just using these settings. They're still a nice start though