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Published: 2007-02-13 01:43:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 1360; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 11
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A spiral I made in Apo today... actually my first. I worked on this a long time and still am not entirely pleased with it. The right half looks good to me... the left half seems a little rough. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!Thanks for looking!
Hugs,
Anj
{Edit - Forgot to say this this was done in Apophysis 2.05b2}
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I think it is beautiful, Anj. I do agree with zsteve's tips. I play with those settings a lot on my pieces. This is very good for your first spiral. 
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Thank you, Kim!
Yup... I play with those settings. This one was rendered at a lower than default gamma and a lower brightness. It seemed nothing I could do would get that left side where I wanted it to go... sigh.
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Neat!
I like the color combinations and how the whole thing looks like it's one big diagonal.
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That's a great spiral Anj.. very feathery!
Do you tweak in post-work? If so, try reducing colour saturation and playing with brightness, contrast etc. Detail can be lost if the settings are too high. If there is no post-work, you may want to adjust the Apo render settings for vibrancy, gamma etc. Render something with a short render time so you can tweak to your liking. When you find settings you like, you can often apply them to a lot of renders.
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I generally don't do true post work. I do post render processing in Apo though... and I' really, really played with this one. If I toned down the colors on the left to the point where I was happy with them, the colors on the right faded out. I had gamma down and brightness too. I don't remember what I did with vibrancy in the post render process.
You know, I might play with rendering something smaller next time, as you suggest. It's weird, but none of my fractals (except for the plastic script ones) use the same settings. Sometimes I have gamma at the default 4 - sometimes at 3 or 3.5 and sometimes as low as 2. Depending on the fractal I've also had brightness as low as 1.2. It seems like every one of my fractals is a living thing and needs its own nourishment.
I do like that idea of doing a smaller render at a bit less density and then seeing if I like what comes out. Thanks for the suggestion!
Hugs and love,
Anj
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You're welcome Anj.. it can be a tricky thing to find just the right settings for a particular fractal, to bring out its salient qualities.
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You're exactly right there, Steve, and since I don't really do post render work, I'm kinda stuck. But *Fractoid gave me a tip... the post transform... I'd not used it before.
Love and hugs,
Anj
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Great job Anj, really like the colours ya got goin' here.
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Thank you, John! I really appreciate the compliment.
Hugs,
Anj
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I think is a awesome first spiral.......nice colors....I would be proud of it.
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Thank you very much for the compliment, Robert!
Hugs,
Anj
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