Color Correction, Grain and Vignettes for Posters

[Pte Jack]

OK, I followed the lighting tutorial and set up SFM to include color correction, grain and a vignette for my scene. I moved the pointer to the position in the clip that I wanted to make a poster of. Exported the poster and none of the overlays transferred to the poster. It came out true color, bight colored and without the overlay. What did I do wrong?

[UNIT]

Not sure if this is too late, but this happens to me too.

Turn on progressive refinement (Right click on viewport, it should be on the pop up)
make the view port as big as you can and screen-cap it, only thing I could think of, I'm afraid.

[Pte Jack]

Thanks for the reply.. I appreciate it. I'll have to give your suggestion a try because the vignettes, grains and colour correction routines do not work for posters, at least not yet...

[Fazer]

I found out that if you go to File>Export>Image, you can save a picture with all of your color corrections and settings, but it only exports in 720p. Better than nothing. Make sure to put an extension after the name of the picture or it won't work (ex: Picture.jpg or Picture.png)

[Gnome Compsci]

Originally posted by Fazer:

I found out that if you go to File>Export>Image, you can save a picture with all of your color corrections and settings, but it only exports in 720p. Better than nothing. Make sure to put an extension after the name of the picture or it won't work (ex: Picture.jpg or Picture.png)

I haven't tried this myself yet, but isn't it possible to export images in 1080p by forcing SFM in 1920x1080 mode? (I do this for rendering videos all the time)

[Pte Jack]

Ok, This is just a suggestion, I haven't tried it yet. But, sfm_resolution 1080 in the launch options will add support for movies at 1080p. Now, create your poses for your poster. Add your colour correction, vignette and grain to the appropriate layers. Find a time stamp on the time line that your want for your poster (in case you've added volumetric lighting). Now when you export export as a movie. Select 1080 and instead of exporting a movie, export image sequences and select a time or frame range from just before before to just after the time period you want. This will produce a series for images and because it should be movie quality, it should include the effect you're looking for. In theory anyway!!! Like I say, just a suggestion.