Beginner's Guide to Reshade: Cyberpunk 2077

**reshade effects can only be captured with external screenshot software!!**

This is my comprehensive guide to my usage of the post-processing software Reshade within Cyberpunk 2077 for Virtual Photography.
The tools I fully dive into are Cinematic Depth of Field and Real Long Exposure. These are the tools that I use almost exclusively in my portraiture!
I hope you find this useful and maybe try out some photos!

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
01:37 Installation of Reshade
03:00 Cinematic Depth of Field
07:30 Photo Mode Demo
10:00 Real Long Exposure
14:20 Outro

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[leoxiao]

Amazing tutorial! Reshade can seem really overwhelming with all the possible tools when you first use it and this really helps getting people familiar with it.

[Rryce_]

This is exactly what I was looking for! Love your cyberpunk vids, my photography skills are improving so much thanks to you (:

[neilburton]

Great tutorial, just what I've been waiting for. Thank you!😊

[LunarCue]

Dude this was an amazing tutorial! So well explained and easy to follow! This really helped me to understand where I was going wrong with my photos! Thank you! Liked and subbed 🤘

[Neverfadeaway_vp]

Ughhhh thank you !!! This is what I needed !! I'll be watching ALL your videos!! 😅

[romans_]

So awesome - great tutorial, thanks for this!

[kingofetiquette]

Another great video. Thank you Shadria

[curryvictim]

This tutorial is so needed, thank you. The unrecord and photorealist guys do a terrible job explaining the basics.

[niktodt]

Great tutorial, although I learned most of it on my own.

If there are things where I struggle the most, it's probably the lighting mods, like CharLi or lights spawned by AMM, or the paid Reshade (that I forgot the name of....). For example, I can get the key and fill lights in he scene just fine with CharLi, but the rim light is still a mystery to me and I can't achieve the effect I'm looking for, without spilling the light everywhere.
A tutorial on where to place and how to set the intensity, size and type of lights to achieve basic 3-point lighting would be awesome!

[ThiagoJaqueta]

I recommend using the Addon version of Reshade for Cyberpunk, as it allows you to use plugins like the amazing IGCS Connector/Depth of Field by Otis_Inf.
This DOF effect works differently than Screen-space DOF Shaders by using multisampling/accumulation, like Real Long Exposure, resulting in a "physically accurate"/artifact free DOF effect, that even works with transparent elements like Glass or particle effects like rain!

I highly recommend checking it out if you get the chance.

[dizzyteaa]

I found out the hard way after a good 20 minutes of setting up a shot that reshade isn't captured by the in-game screenshot button lol, and this kinda bums me out because otherwise I cant really use path tracing as my rig isn't nearly powerful enough to have it on during the entire process. I mean its possible but my game runs at about 15 fps when I do. I think that if I'm committed enough I could get it done though

[omarkhaldi]

Thx for the tutorial as always, also which screen capture software are you using, im using the steam f12 but still the picture will cone out pixelitaed a little bit

[Lt.Bustanut]

Do you press space bar right before the timer runs out? or do you use windows to make the screenshot? sorry newbie question! lol

[vadima]

Greetings! Amazing tutorial! I have a newbie question. Have you come across mods that allow you to use image overlay (to combine the perspective of a finished real photo and a game screenshot)?

[Jubair_Hossain_Jesan]

How do i get back to the normal presets before using re-shade?
Do i need to delete re-shade?

[jayderby]

Amazing tutorial, I do have one problem though whenever I enable any effect in reshade it seem like the bloom effect in my game gets put on overdrive any idea how to fix this

[Reminar]

Everytime I take a photo in photomode the cinematicdof wont show up on the photo. I can see it on my screen. But not in the photo. Do you know why?

[neilburton]

How are you keeping the shot outside of photomode as I notice your keep toggling it on/off?

[michalsavatar]

For some reason, when I have "use auto focus" selected, nothing happens. I drag and adjust all the various setting, and no focus change occurs. It's only when I toggle "use auto focus" off, changes start to happen when I change the settings. Did I miss something? Can anyone suggest how I can get it working with "use auto focus" toggled on? Thanks

[BulletNG]

So what do you use to actually take the screenshots!?