Making of cafe by Tiziano Fioriti

Post-processing & Depth of Field

This process is really important. An ordinary result could be improved a lot with an excellent use of post-processing software.
In this case I used Photoshop of Adobe. Computing depth of field of image (or animation) with rendering engine that's really problematic.
It's advisable to make it with internal 3ds max plugin. I used ZDepth. In my case I used values as: Z min 155 and Z max: 230.
Once rendered the depth map (see below), you have to import it in a compositing software (Photoshop ad example) and set it as alpha channel.
Afer done you can load the alpha map in Filter > Blur > Lens blur and you can modify various parameters to achieve good results.

Background is simply a bitmap image saturated and then blurred.

With simple small brushes (with help of blending changes) I created some micro-details like scratches on table and coffee mug.
Important advice: it's very useful enhance or reduce Hue/Saturation and Brightness/Contrast settings. Try with various filters for achieve interesting results.

Final Image see below:

About the author:

Tiziano Fioriti was born May 6th, 1986 in Gualdo Tadino, Umbria. After attending the Senior High School specializing in Science Education he's currently a student of Industrial Design at the Faculty of Architecture of Florence University. He is working as Autodesk instructor, environment artist and digital matte painter. As one of the Top 25 Finalists of the "2007 Architectural Visualization Competition", he is also the winner of 3DM3 "The Lost World Challenge" and his works are even featured on Ballistic Publishing Exposé 5 "The finest digital art in the known universe" and "d'artiste Matte Painting 2". Official website: http://www.tizianofioriti.com