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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
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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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            • K Offline
              kc10
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              cool plugin. good job for sharing your works.

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              • pmolsonP Offline
                pmolson
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                @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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                    • J Offline
                      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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