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    • D Offline
      davidh
      last edited by

      An external view of a project I have uploaded previously.
      The foreground elements are all originally .png photo elements brought thru fotosketcher and edited in photoshop.


      house.jpg

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        anstvam
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        How would you like these ones as NPR? Was experimenting the other day... SUp, obviously Fotosketcher, and Photoshop.
        I like better the one with the vertical running zebrano veneer, which is wrong in reality, but can't remember how I got to that result πŸ˜† !


        island 2.jpg


        scene 1b.jpg

        We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the chintz...

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          kobus
          last edited by

          A monument our office is currently restoring. This is from an old photograph.
          Good find, Oli. Parallels has me switching to windows whenever, too, btw.


          20018.jpg

          you should be interested in the future. you will spend the rest of your life there

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          • pmolsonP Offline
            pmolson
            last edited by

            Here are a few.
            su modeling - podium rendering - photoshop landscaping - and last, but not least, Fotosketcher!


            A retreat center in the design phase


            Retreat view 2


            alternate concept for ranch home remodel


            ranch home remodel concept (The client picked this one)


            existing ranch home

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              Ross Macintosh
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              Paul - your SU>Podium>PS>FS work is looking great. You should try adding a final step overlaying in PS some fine SU linework to see if it brings the renderings to the next level: Zen perfection.

              Regards, Ross

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              • pmolsonP Offline
                pmolson
                last edited by

                Thanks for the comments Ross,

                I do not know how line overlay is accomplished in photoshop.
                Could you point me towards a tutorial?
                Is it doable in elements?

                p

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                • michaliszissiouM Offline
                  michaliszissiou
                  last edited by

                  Hi Paul, nice renders!
                  Search the TT&T topic in podium forum, zem wrote a good one once upon a time.

                  About this fotosketcher topic: Better to try to achieve something more close to painting, that means you can overlay lines, fade some areas, heavy PP I mean.
                  To use it as a texture filter over a nice already render, this I don't understand. Whatever a client says. Give them a vision, don't listen to them. That's why they pay, even they don't realize it. πŸ˜†

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                    kc10
                    last edited by

                    cool plugin. good job for sharing your works.

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                    • pmolsonP Offline
                      pmolson
                      last edited by

                      @michaliszissiou said:

                      To use it as a texture filter over a nice already render, this I don't understand. Whatever a client says. Give them a vision, don't listen to them. That's why they pay, even they don't realize it. πŸ˜†

                      michaliszissiou,
                      I agree to a certain extent.
                      The real world design build industry has some very real limits to
                      artistic expression. $$$$! A photo-realistic image is wonderful and compelling, but can also
                      scare off clients by being too real. They can sometimes come away feeling as if there is no room for
                      change. The water color filtered or pencil sketch filtered images can create a feeling of a work
                      in progress with enough reality mixed in to help nail down concepts without limiting creativity.

                      The added bonus of this approach is that one can do a quick not perfect render, slap some background
                      and foreground clutter in with pp, and hit it with fotosketcher and have an image that feels architectural,
                      artistic, & invoice worthy without spending time most clients are unwilling to pay for.

                      Sorry this is not art, its work & it works. Having said that, I still want to do the nicest work I can do
                      within the limitations of what I can charge for.

                      Thanks for the direction and comments here and in the past, I always learn something when you put your two cents in.

                      James,
                      Thanks for the link and directing me back to that website. I had forgotten how much info there is there.

                      p

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                      • michaliszissiouM Offline
                        michaliszissiou
                        last edited by

                        It seems like we have an argument here. Not at all. I mostly agree and understand.
                        Some more washing and overlay lines could help though. Less like a filter, more like a painting. Why not? I've seen some great presentations using just SU raw 2d output.
                        A question: what's the resolution of these images?

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                          pmolson
                          last edited by

                          michaliszissiou,

                          Sorry if I come off argumentative, I don't mean to.
                          Sometimes in trying to explain myself I can forget to include pleasantries. πŸ˜„

                          I will be looking at the overlay techniques and will post the results.

                          The down sized posted images are 1100 X 577 - 96 dpi

                          original images were 3850 X2152 - 72 dpi

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                            Jim
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                            FotoSketcher 2.00 is out, in case you missed the announcement.

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                            For the New Year... FotoSketcher 2.00 finally released

                            Happy New Year to all! After months of hard toil FotoSketcher 2.00 is finally available for download ( http://www.fotosketcher.com/download....

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                            (fotosketcher.blogspot.com)

                            Hi

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                            • Rich O BrienR Offline
                              Rich O Brien Moderator
                              last edited by

                              Nice one Jim. Here's the new features...

                              10 languages in all (English, French, German, Czech, Polish, Italian, Romanian, Dutch, Finnish, Russian)
                              Crop source or drawn image
                              Lossless 90Β° rotation
                              Improved and more responsive interface (12 skins, flicker-free icons, real-time preview of brushstrokes)
                              One-click automatic contrast adjustment
                              Check for updates
                              Automatic saving of language, window size, position and chosen skin
                              4 new realistic frames
                              New custom brushes loading for Painting 7 effect
                              New vintage photo effect (sepia, vignette, old photo texture)

                              Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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