About the Camera Properties window: Camera tab

Drag this slider to adjust perspective.

Depth of field is the range of distance within the scene that appears acceptably sharp in the image. Use it to improve photorealism and depth perception, and to attract attention to a focused object.

Use Depth of field controls as follows:

• Center of Interest : Sets the focal distance to the current center of interest.
• Click on an object : Sets the focal distance to an object you click.
• Focal distance : The distance from the camera to the focus point. (The focus point is closer to the camera than the center of the focal range.)
• F-stop : Determines the depth of the focal range; smaller values have a shallower range and a greater blur effect. Larger values have a deeper range and less blur. The F-stop works in tandem with focal length. Increasing the focal length (zooming) reduces the focal range and increases the blur. Ray tracing has more accurate depth of field and the ability to blur more. Hardware rendering blurs less to keep a higher frame rate.

Select this to enable light to spill over to neighboring pixels to create a glowing effect. Bloom is not supported in ray tracing mode. Customize Bloom settings with the Threshold, Intensity, and Size controls.

Determines how bright pixels must be before light is allowed to spill over to neighboring pixels with the Bloom effect.

Drag to the left to use a low threshold; all but the dimmest pixels will allow light to spill over, and the scene will look brighter.

Drag to the right to use a high threshold; only brighter pixels will allow light to spill over. The glowing effect will not be as pronounced as one created with a low threshold, but will still be brighter than having no bloom effect at all.

Controls the brightness of the affected pixels for the Bloom effect.

Controls the range of the Bloom effect; for example, the Large setting allows light to spill over to more pixels than the Small setting.

Quickly adjust the Compensation, Highlights, Midtones, and Shadows settings using these presets:

• Standard : Vivid, crisp default general setting usable for most conditions. These are the same as the default settings for Revit and 3ds Max. Use this setting to emulate those applications, or to publish an image that you will edit in a graphics program.
• High Contrast : This is the default, and recommended, Showcase setting. It darkens midtones and increases compensation and saturation, while reducing highlights to emulate the response of a digital camera. In short, this setting enhances the scene to look like contemporary photos. Usually no retouching should be needed.
• Faithful : Faithful display of scene colors; no exaggeration or enhancement. This setting is useful for measuring light in the scene. For example, with a white HDR image, you may want to use this to see if the rendering and environment are working as expected. Also useful if you want to simulate a real-world look.
• Neutral : Like Standard, this is a good setting for post-processing, where you want to publish an image that you will modify in a graphics editor. Saturation and contrast are low, and there is a wider range of greys. Scenes with this setting will contain brighter shadows and less light burn.
• Monochrome : Standard grayscale; high contrast with no saturation.

Adds or subtracts exposure from the amount already set by Showcase with respect to the environment. For example, if you set compensation to -1.0, the actual exposure used by the tone mapper is the exposure value set by Showcase for the current environment minus 1.0. The compensation value is saved with the scene.

Reduce or increase highlights in the scene.

Reduce or increase midtones in the scene; similar in effect to a gamma control.

Reduce or increase darkness of dark parts of the scene.

In some images, bright colors might be compressed to the point where de-saturation has made the image unappealing. Drag this slider to increase saturation as necessary. A value of 1.0 is the standard un-modified saturation level.

Select a color to be mapped to white in the scene. This should be done in coordination with lighting environments. Drag the slider or click the color swatch to change the color to be mapped.

Similar to the Color filter control, this works by selecting a white balance. Dragging the slider to the left for "Cooler" values will approximate "whiter" light, while dragging to the right for "Warmer" values will approximate the slightly orangish glow of indoor lighting.