Ronen Bekerman has updated his blog with a clever trick for adding fake fog to a fast render in such a way that it’s easily editable in Photoshop, eliminating lengthy re-render times.

I recently used this technique in the visualization of the Agami House in Yaffo. It’s true it might not look real enough but for most cases this really looks good enough and you have the added bonus of fast render and flexible edit inside Photoshop if the client ask for tweaks.

It’s accomplished with a VRayZDepth render pass, but I suspect any renderer that can export a Z-Depth layer would work similarly.  A quick composite of the Z-Depth with a gradient opacity shift and the background, and voila.  See the full details at his site.

via Adding Fog Using VRayZDepth Render Pass – Ronen Bekerman – 3D Architectural Visualization Blog.