Fusion Help: I need to matching my brand color

[crpikeinportland]

I have a certain RGB blue in my sign and logo.  I'm making images of some pilates equipment, and I'd like the color of the top of the table to tie in with the blue in the logo.  So I go to materials, like plastics, and I set the RGB of the appearance of the table top to match the RGB of my brand.  But when I render, the lighting obviously changes the color so it is much brighter than my  branded blue.  I can change the brightness, but then that makes the wood too dark.  I could go back to the appearances menu and darken the blue of this table top, in order to compensate for the lighting. But that would be a tedious process of trial and error.  Do you have a suggestion?

 

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[Drewpan]

Hi,

Just remember that what you see on the screen is a visualisation of what the

software is able to reproduce. In theory an RGB colour will be represented similar

to a Pantone colour by the software. What it looks like on screen will NOT be

what it actually looks like when fabricated with the correct materials. I understand

that this is frustrating if you are trying to make a nice rendering of the model but

short of tweaking the lighting or view style you are probably stuck with it.

Have you tried to turn the light source OFF in the render so that it does not try to

create shadows and such? This may be what is causing your issues.

Cheers

Andrew

[crpikeinportland]

Thanks for your help.  The color I'm looking for is not even the color of the real physical object.  I'm just trying to create images where the colors tie in with the brand.  Anyway, do you know if there is a well know relationship between what happens to an RGB color under various intensities light?  Maybe there is a table with this information.  I didn't know you could turn lighting off.  If I turn lighting off, wont' everything be black?

[Drewpan]

Hi,

No I don't think there is a known relationship with colours. As I mentioned, it is a visualisation

on the screen. If you actually fabricated the model with the correct materials it WOULD look

like it was meant to in the correct colours. Unfortunately you will simply have to play around

with the colours to get them to render correctly.

Haha. No it will not turn black when you turn of the lighting. In the render there are some options

for various lighting effects. Typically there is a choice between a Point Source like a spotlight from

far away and something that resembles the sun. It is all about how the software works out where

all of the shadows are. If you turn the light source OFF then what happens is that the lighting

becomes even and no shadows are created. Think about Old School Game graphics. Before Graphics

Cards had Ray Tracing capability the shadows, if they were needed, would have been coded into

the display. Now the Graphics Card just creates a virtual light source and calculates what is in shadow

and displays it. Fusion uses similar technology for rendering. I don't often do much rendering of my

models, only when I need it for showing off or for a specific project. I have played around with

renders but mainly I have just read the Fusion Documentation and done the Tutorials and some of

the Self Paced Learning. The links to these are in the top right corner when you fire up fusion.

This one has lighting ON as you can see from the shadows and reflections. I don't

think I have a version with the lighting off but the reflections and shadows just go

away.

Sorry I cannot be of more help.

Cheers

Andrew

[crpikeinportland]

Thanks again for your help.  When I turn brightness to zero, I get black.  I don't know exactly what to do.  If there were a way to get the RBG of a color in the rendered image, that would make adjusting more efficient.   As it is, I can render, import into Adobe illustrator, use the eyedropper to evaluate the RBG, to back to Fusion adjust the appearance RBG, render and repeat.  Until I converge on an RGB that works.  Thanks again for trying.  It kind of sucks.  Have a good night.

[Drewpan]

Hi,

Not Brightness - Light Source. They are different. Brightness WILL make it black because

you are turning off ALL light. Light Source controls the shadows. A point Light source will

create sharp shadows, a broad light source will make those shadows less defined. Think

about walking around outside, not all shadows are the same. There is a setting in the Light

Source where you set it to basically flood the Model with light and display no shadows.

I have not got Fusion fired up right now or I would Screen Shot to show you.

Have a read of the fusion docs about rendering and it will tell you how to set up the lighting

effects. That is where I discovered how to do it. There are a couple of tutorials embedded

in the docs because I remember doing them. I think a big part of the problem will be how

the shadows are affecting what the visual looks like. Does suck but you might have to play

with the RGB settings until it looks right.

You might not be able to do it but I can actually callibrate my Dell Monitor to display different

colour swatches including RGB and various Adobe swatches. Maybe trying to callibrate your

monitor will help. It is usually some kind of software that you download from the monitor

website in the Drivers and Tools section. Typically you only use it for setup and very rarely

afterwards.

Cheers

Andrew

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