drmdzh 0 Posted November 29, 2016 How do you soft focus lighting instruments? I thought is was using beam and spread, but they are greyed out in the instrument info palette. Quote Share this post Link to post
markdd 762 Posted November 29, 2016 The setttings are always greyed out when a light object is being used by a spotlight instrument and you can only adjust beam angle from the OIP. In the OIP Set Field Angle to the size of beam and set Beam Angle to say ½ the size. That will give you a degree of softness to a circular beam. Shuttered beams cannot be softened to my knowledge although setting them to soft shadows helps slightly. I hope that answers your question. Mark Quote Share this post Link to post
drmdzh 0 Posted November 29, 2016 (edited) I'm changing the beam angle in the "Edit Light" menu, (Field angle = 34; Beam angle = 16) and the gobo pattern is still super sharp, does not change when I adjust beam angle.. Not sure what's going on. Edited November 29, 2016 by drmdzh Quote Share this post Link to post
markdd 762 Posted November 29, 2016 Sadly with shutters and gobos you can't soften as in real life. I go to photoshop and blur gobo textures there. This would be a really great enhancement to to Spotlight. The ability to "add frost" would also be very very useful. Quote Share this post Link to post
drmdzh 0 Posted November 30, 2016 oh! thank you so much for letting me know, now I can stop fighting the program! Can one use anything with an alpha channel as a gobo texture? Quote Share this post Link to post
drmdzh 0 Posted November 30, 2016 On 11/29/2016 at 0:24 PM, markdd said: Sadly with shutters and gobos you can't soften as in real life. I go to photoshop and blur gobo textures there. This would be a really great enhancement to to Spotlight. The ability to "add frost" would also be very very useful. How do you export the gobo in order to work with it in photoshop. Thanks. Quote Share this post Link to post
mjm 166 Posted November 30, 2016 I get the gobo from mfr catalog online, then directly into PS, blur and rename actual name + blur Works really well. Quote Share this post Link to post
PVA - Jim 2,395 Posted November 30, 2016 For existing gobo textures in the document I believe you can right click > Extract Image(s) on the texture in the Resource Manager to get the source image for editing. Quote Share this post Link to post