Brightness and Contrast Rendering Effect

Brightness And Contrast allows you to adjust the contrast and brightness of an image. This can be used to match rendered scene objects with background images or animations.

Above: Original rendering is too dark.

Below: Increasing both brightness and contrast improves clarity of the rendering.

Interface

The Brightness and Contrast Parameters rollout contains the following parameters.

Brightness

Increases or decreases all color components (red, green, and blue). Range=0 to 1.0.

Contrast

Compresses or expands the latitude between maximum black and maximum white. Range=0 to 1.0.

Ignore Background

Applies the effect to everything in your 3ds Max scene except the background.