Making Your Renders Pop with Color Grading and Compositing

Here’s the raw render of an artwork I made several years ago. Not bad. The contrast isn’t that great. Some camera effects would be nice.

But here’s the difference with just a few compositing nodes:

How would you like to do the same for your renders?

I made a video tutorial to help beginners get started and know which nodes I find useful for my renders.

I made a written tutorial of it as well on Blender Artists that you can check out. Best part? It includes a template file with my compositing nodes, as well as a an explanation using render passes.

So check out the written or video versions of the tutorial - let me know which one you find more useful!