Photoshop in SketchUp

[Ands43]

I tend to only use SU and podium, occasionally I'll use PS but as my skills and time are limited I tend not to.

Just wondering what the main alterations are that people do to their renders. I have seen a watercolour effect used.

What are you shopping into or out of your images.

[pilou]

You can also use this fabulous free prog
Fotosketcher

[thomthom]

Adjusting colours.
Adding people/vegetation/sky.
Compositing render channels

[Ands43]

Thanks guys I'll have a look

[Chris Fullmer]

Andrew Haskins did his thesis on showing a few examples of sketchup photoshop rendering. Here is a 14mb pdf of of his thesis. It mostly talks about a few of the main techniques that have been presented on these forums over the years:

http://lda.ucdavis.edu/people/2007/AHaskin.pdf

Chris

[Viztecture]

Personally I use photoshop alot in my renders, along with what thom thom suggested I also:

• add glows, god rays, flares
• tweak textures, add grunge maps, add grass in foreground
• add vignetting, colour gradients, depth of field and grunge/film noise overlays
• overpainting with a tablet and boosting/cheating reflections on some floors

In my workflow often a raw render is 50% of the final image, like I have said before photoshop and post is where i make my money.

[mogren]

You have Piranesi which is a real "3D Photoshop"
The link seems to be closed just now: http://www.piranesi.co.uk/ (hope it's only temporary ) so I send a You Tube link as example

Fotosketcher is only for PC

EDIT:
Bad news: searching the Piranesi link to send it here, I found that Informatix editor of Piranesi has some real problems:

http://www.informatixsoftware.com/forums/showthread.php/3122-Informatix-Inc.-Japan-Statement