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Photoview Color Differences

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SWKennedy

Mechanical
Dec 8, 2009
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I don't get to play with Photoview very often, so when I was asked to see what we could do with it I jumped on the opportunity. Worked with my solidworks model, finished applying all of my textures and color and was extremely happy with the output. Pushed the final render button, decided the preview looked spectacular and I confirmed that I was ready to go.

When the process finished my colors were off. Really really off.

Now, I know that photoview processes all of the lighting and shadows and some colors may not look as white, or too shiny, etc then you may have expected just in solidworks but this was more then that. All of my cast colors were various shades of pink, all of my polished metals were shades of blue. I went and checked my scene and I don't have any colored spotlights so I'm not sure where those colors are coming from.

After playing with multiple settings the only thing that appears to make a difference is the output size. When I change it from a custom size to a standard (ex: 1920 x 1080), the colors come out the way I expected. Is there an extra setting I need to change when I'm working with custom sizing?
 
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