Washed out appearance

Just a few things I routinely do with each new LRT export;

• reduce vignetting from 50% to 15% (the 50% default is way too high)
• reduce Hazy to Clear
• reduce Bloom from 50% to 0%
• Exposure +0.1
• Color WB from 5000 to 5500 (the default is too cold and needs to be warmed up in most cases)
• Switch off cloud speed and disable cloud shadows.

Not all of these will help with your situation, and each condition is different, but they're my usual hitlist.

I almost always apply post production filters in photoshop too. I must agree - "out of the box LumenRT" is not quite there yet and most images/ movies need tweaking.

Thanks Max. I tried these and it did help some. I hope Lumen Rt will get there soon, for the price it shouldn't need post production tweaking.

Also try different values for the "Gamma" slider. A high gamma can produce a washed out pastel effect on textures, especially if the textures being used already have a built in gamma of their own. This is often the case with textures ripped directly off the internet that have a gamma baked in at about 2.0 to 2.2 to make them look right in a web page. You can fix this at source (ie de-gamma your textures in photoshop) or try drive down the final gamma applied to the whole scene.

Also try different values for the "Gamma" slider. A high gamma can produce a washed out pastel effect on textures, especially if the textures being used already have a built in gamma of their own. This is often the case with textures ripped directly off the internet that have a gamma baked in at about 2.0 to 2.2 to make them look right in a web page. You can fix this at source (ie de-gamma your textures in photoshop) or try drive down the final gamma applied to the whole scene.