Useful curved tree line

olishea · 21 Jun 2010, 10:50

Yeah page 1.

@unknownuser said:

Would it be presumptuous to ask what technique you use. I would like to make a contribution.

Of course, please contribute.

masking tutorials (cheers Fletch):

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/photoshop/articles/phs8kbhairmask.html BEST TUTORIAL

http://layersmagazine.com/masking-hair-in-photoshop-cs3.html VIDEO

http://www.creativepro.com/files/story_images/ExtractHair.pdf PDF

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/elements/tutorials/extract-hair/masking-tutorial.html NICE EASY METHOD

McGyver · 10 Jul 2010, 14:41

Wow! Thank you! This is a huge timesaver! "meticulously deleted all the sky"is an understatement... Laboriously... PAINSTAKINGLY... ouch! I've done this sort of thing in photoshop before(for single shrubs) and it is a huge pain! Thank you for sharing this!! especially for sharing the PNGs!
I hope the thank yous have caught up with the download numbers.... (on ShareCG my average is 900 - 1 or something like that.)
Thanks!

nomeradona · 20 Jul 2010, 05:31

thanks oli. very useful

linea · 20 Jul 2010, 06:51

Thanks Oli, Native English trees are very much appreciated, I tend to use tropical plant components far too much!

olishea · 22 Jul 2010, 20:00

im glad you guys are happy with them

tell me about it linea! it's all I seem to find on the net! bloody palm trees in manchester!

I'll do some more when I got some free time. Urban backdrop and hills/valleys in the pipeline.

cadmunkey · 23 Jul 2010, 10:09

These are superb Oli, thanks for being so generous and sharing them.

marcocapela · 4 Aug 2010, 21:48

it looks very good! thank you!

DONT FORGET TO CHECK THIS IN VRAY MATERIAL SETTINGS TO GET TRANSPERANCY

vidy · 10 Aug 2010, 06:19

Bravo Oli, thanks for your generosity

regards,

o2bwln · 11 Aug 2010, 14:53

Oli,

Thanks for the images. They are fantastic.

I haven't used png's in a while, could someone point me to a tutorial that shows how to create the shadow effect shown for the treeline? That's what happens when you don't use a technique for a few years...sigh.

Thanks,
O2bwln

olishea · 11 Aug 2010, 15:59

the image is rendered.

you can not achieve shadows like this in sketchup....sketchup will just give a rectangular shadow.

unless you trace around every single leaf, twig, branch etc!!

so get rendering!!

Gaieus · 12 Aug 2010, 12:51

You can make a very rough tracing for SU as these are really in the background and do not need to be very exact/detailed...

1000RMB · 9 Sept 2010, 11:32

U are so nice~~

bmike · 21 Sept 2010, 13:09

very nice. playing with them now in a cabin project.

Krisidious · 21 Sept 2010, 15:27

wow... thank you very much... these will come in very handy.

Karlfucious · 3 Oct 2010, 04:35

Thanks a lot. These are very useful.

Nocturnis · 12 Oct 2010, 08:28

Very usefull ! Thx a lot !

Nocturnis · 12 Oct 2010, 23:26

@marcocapela said:

it looks very good! thank you!

DONT FORGET TO CHECK THIS IN VRAY MATERIAL SETTINGS TO GET TRANSPERANCY

Hello Marcoapela,

Here is a noob question :

Do you know where is that option in the previous version of SU/Vray ? I use SU 7.1 and Vray 1.05.30 and I dont got this option in the diffuse tab

Ands43 · 5 Jan 2011, 12:20

Wow these are great! I use a similar method where I import a jpeg and project it on to a curved face for my background. I leave the sky in, may I ask why you removed it other than the obvious you can change the sky.

Do you add your sky in photoshop? Anyway thanks a bunch as I'll use these a lot.

marleus · 7 Jan 2011, 06:52

Thanks again Oli
These are really great

kicbas · 7 Jan 2011, 21:16

sweet.... thanks man....