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This is a commercial kitchen I have been working on. I tweaked the brushed stainless steel material last night and I'm really happy with it. I've also added a little PS to the specular reflections to make them a little less uniform (more wavy). The wall tile on the left is modeled. It has some prett...

Very cool. The glow on the inner surface out of the outer shell is really nice. The micro-cracking (without specularity) is also really beautiful. I'm not a big fan of the silver material as it looks fake. It looks to be somewhere in-between a chrome and a brushed metal which just doesn't read as re...

Oh and by the way Fletch, the fakest looking thing in the example render you posted is the photograph in the background ! The image you created looks beautiful. The wall texture is unreal.

Thank you all for the kind words. Fletch, I wouldn't say the tile in the photograph was dusty, it just doesn't have as great of a specular quality as a lot of tiles. I think the specular quality is so subtle that it's difficult to get right. Either it looks really flat or it feels like its too close...

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One material I would love to improve is the grey tile in the corridor. I've been struggling to get it to look realistic. It is porcelain tile 12x24 with dark grout. I have attached a photograph of the real tile. I just can't seem to get it to look real.

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