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Well, why shouldn't a girl wear a cowboy hat with her armour?

The rest of the images are reminders to myself of the setup and postwork that's becoming …

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Well, why shouldn't a girl wear a cowboy hat with her armour?

The rest of the images are reminders to myself of the setup and postwork that's becoming part of my routine:

2nd: original raw render with a few problem areas (e.g. hair poking through the hat). The ground is flat plane consisting of a single square (4 vertices, 1 face) with the material from my 'Sand Test Render'

3rd: small area renders with various things made invisible - this is my 'fixes' render.

4th: using the Focus Distance Guide to approximate the closest and furthest points of the subject.

5th: notes for creating a Z-depth version of the image.

6th: my lighting setting - just my worldball with the Sand environment set, but I've adjusted the Sun and IBL as shown.

7th: my render settings

8th: raw render with IBL turned off and IDL enabled instead

I combine the original render and the 'fixes' render in GIMP to get rid of the poke-through.

I then load the fixed render into GIMP, load the Z-depth render as a separate layer, and the use the Focus Blur plugin on the fixed render layer, with the Z-depth layer as the depth mask. « Less