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CDimagined (August Update) - Pure Gamma

Added 2025-08-17 12:50:31 +0000 UTC

With August now here, it's time for a new monthly update for the CDimagined PPfilter!

To show off the new update, I'll compare it to the July update that was before, while giving explanations of what has changed. A comparison of new vs old (new is on the left, old is on the right)

Reflections and lighting

Lighting has been reworked, for to be "more logical", brightness and contrast now spreads evenly from the sky to the ground/landscape, thus the whole image blends together nicely.
Reflections now show more detail in "focus areas" ( points of the surface that you are directly looking at), making glass look "more like glass" and car paint more glossy.

Also a raw comparison between August (on the left) and July (on the right) updates.

Sky levels/brightness and indirect lighting

Sky brightness has been turned down a little, to improve the overall lighting smoothness in the image, in the contrary, indirect/ambient light has been increased a bit to make the ground and sky match in brightness.
The reflections have significantly improved in low-light scenarios, as glass looks more transparent, while still giving off shine.

A comparison of new vs old.

Clouds and reflection brightness

Clouds have been reworked to be as detailed as possible, without being too "contrasty", while in the July update they seem washed-out.
Reflections also benefit from differences made to the ambient and sky brightness, they now show off more detail while blending in with the sky and ground correctly.

August vs July

Finally, night time changes

Landscape now doesn't have that "fake light", in the July update I made it so landscape has a personal light, but to me it still looked weird, so I toned it down, to match the overall exposure of night time.
Moonlight is more controlled, and doesn't overpower so much.