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    • A Offline
      anstvam
      last edited by

      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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      • K Offline
        kobus
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        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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          • R Offline
            Ross Macintosh
            last edited by

            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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                      • pmolsonP Offline
                        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 Online
                            Rich O Brien Moderator
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                            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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