NPR Colourful landscape -includes basic steps

[davidh]

Thanks guys,every image I do is done because I love playing with photoshop and particularly light,and for every image I upload here,I have 3-4 versions that didnt quite work.

What I try to do is create an environment or a world that exists alongside the building,giving it a life history beyond the render.
Most of my images are based on the surrounding landscape using everything such as photos, entourage from Dosch or Evermotion or Xfrog etc or rendering out from a program such as THEA,which is now my rendering software of choice.

I have attached a small stone wall ,modeled in sketchup and rendered in Thea in .png format which you can use in your images.

Also I set up a blog today just for NPR renders where I will upload images and in time,add step by step instructions.
http://dhrenders.blogspot.ie/

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[davidh]

A night shot using the technique in the post processing tutorial section of the forum for turning day to night.
The treeline to the left is the same as that behind the house,just mirrored and cloned to break up the main repeating patterns and the highlights burned in using the "Dodge" tool in photoshop.

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