Sunset barn Final

Awesome, what a nice lighting and blend9er-ing into the environment

Very nice design.

shiennar Wow, it looks incredible!! Great work, and I'm glad the technique worked! :-)

copperplate I normally don't revisit my projects once they are finished, but I couldn't resist trying out the technique you recommended. And it worked great! So thank you very much for the tip, and I'll do my best to remember it in the future. :-) (I have uploaded the new version of the image.)

shiennar Sounds cool. I have not tried Cryptomatte before... (sounds cryptic), but the effect should be possible just from within Blender 2.79's Render Layers panel > Layer > Mask Layer (and select the layers used for the barn). (Sidenote: I use 2.79.6 to get the cpu+gpu combo rendering feature not available in the official 2.79b build. Haven't jumped to 2.8 yet...). :-)

copperplate Thanks, Adam, I'm glad you like it :-) I rendered the barn (with its shadow) and the grass field separately, on a transparent background, and I composited them together in Krita. But I didn't realize that the area where the barn joins the ground will look off. I think I'll try to use the Cryptomatte feature of Blender 2.8 in my future projects (to get the correct mask) - I didn't use it this time because I wasn't sure how well it would handle Grass Essentials (the add-on is probably not updated yet).

Awesome work Katerina! The saturation adds the perfect warmth and blends very believably with the background image.

P.S. It's only a small detail, but if the post processing wasn't done entirely in Blender, you may be able to render out the grass plane layer with the barn layer set as a mask. This will cut out a barn-shaped hole from the grass layer and allow the grass plane to be composited on top, giving the illusion of grass growing around the edges of the barn. On the other hand, if the comp is entirely in Blender, you could do a similar thing if the layers were color graded separately. At any rate, this is excellent work... great job! :-)

I think the saturation looks fine in both.