Watercolor Effect
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I was looking through the gallery on the sketchup website and came across some pictures by an interior designer. She somehow made her sketchup models have a watercolor painting look. How is that done? Is there a plug in or style that allows you to do it? I tried attaching a picture of what im talking about so I hope it works.
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If you look at 'windows > styles' you'll see many different ways of displaying the model.
Some look a bit like watercolour (sketchy edges).
To finish the look you can use the free software http://www.fotosketcher.com/ -
The image you posted as an example probably had some post processing done in PhotoShop or some other image editor or painting program.
Unfortunately you won't be able to get it all done in SketchUp alone.
This image is a combination of a texture image without edges run through Fotosketcher and another image export with just some sketchy edges from one of my styles. I make separate exports in cases like this so Fotosketcher doesn't do anything to the lines.
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Try this technique for a beginning on something similar and it will give you ideas for other things you can do. Use Photoshop or Gimp. Also Fotosketcher.
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=25197#p216173
Also there's this book...
Digital Watercolour | SketchUcation
Digital Watercolour NPR Techniques for SketchUp is a step by step tutorial in creating a non-photo realistic rendering in SketchUp. The tutorial will start with the introduction of the technique and will then go straight ahead with some exercises with two styles in the technique.
(sketchucation.com)
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