Overview

Photo Studio enables you to easily and interactively create photorealistic images and simple animations of a product. ThePhoto Studio User's Guideis intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with Photo Studio interactive functions. This overview provides the following information:

Photo Studio in a Nutshell

Thanks to its ease of use and to the interactive preview of rendering specifications as they are applied, Photo Studio is the perfect tool for any "non specialist" user who wishes to deliver a high quality photorealistic image at any time and without the help of rendering specialists. The Photo Studio Easy toolbar is accessible from most CATIA workbenches.

It contributes to enhance project collaboration by enabling users to produce and share quality representations of their ideas (with shadows, reflections and refractions that are physically correct). By giving a realistic simulation of the model appearance, it can also be used to validate the quality of the design at any time during the product development process.

The image computation takes into account materials, stickers, lights and environments that can have been defined previously in the Realistic Rendering workbench.

This easy-to-use interface allows a common user to produce quickly an accurate photo of his geometry.

Before Reading this Guide

All users should be familiar with basic Infrastructure concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars as well as the 3D compass. Prior to reading this book, we therefore recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide.

You may also find useful to read the Realistic Rendering User's Guide that allows you to define material specifications that will be shared across your entire product development process as well as map materials onto products to produce photorealistic images.

Getting the Most Out of this Guide

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step user tasks which cover all product functionalities, such as selecting and rendering scenes, managing the quality of rendering, saving pictures,...

The Interface Description section, which describes the Photo Studio toolbar will also certainly prove useful.

Navigating in the Split View mode is recommended. This mode offers a framed layout allowing direct access from the table of contents to the information.

Here is an example of a Rendering result: