ABSTRACT
The topic of linear workflow has been a hot topic over the past few years. In a nutshell, a linear workflow is about creating an environment that allows light to behave as it does in the real world. A linear image is a 32-bit floating point image that has been stored in linear space, which means that it has gamma-encoded values removed and is set in a gamma of 1.0. Working in linear space is used in the compositing environment. It has several benefits, such as being able to realistically composite elements. For example, in Figure 9.1 , you can see how realistically a 3D-rendered element with motion blur is composited in the scene. Nothing special has been done to get the motion blur to look so realistic. In a linear workflow, this type of result comes with the territory.
