4.3 is very nice indeed and seems much quicker.

It's a pain, and yet another password to remember. All the harder because it doesn't happen that often.

Indeed the color images saved from GE are slightly askew from the B&W snapshotted from GE into SU. Easiest way to correct is to apply the color image to the flat view in SU, then use the texture position pins to distort to fit properly, then sample that image and apply to the terrain. There is a tutorial somewhere on this, but I can't remember where....

Rhubarb is a superior fruit in any baked dish -- and should never be sullied by strawberry in a pie.

I guess everyone has a fantasy about living in a lighthouse...maybe not.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=365_1204733012

Have a look at the famous Julie Dillon tutorials with photoshop:
http://www.howtodrawmanga.com/tutorial.html

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Just a heads up we're talking about this at length in the background.
We're going to simplify the Board Index and make it almost as the old sketchup.com forum.
Stay tuned!

You all (SCF) are to be applauded for all your hard work and for salvaging the SU Pro forum community after the Google forum disaster. If a hardworking few can produce this superb forum, why can't Google with all its resources fix their forums? (sorry, silly question).

Extraordinary exhibit -- most flower show exhibits are tacky and vulgar. Who was the hollywood designer and where was the show?

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...The company health and safety officer went nuts that we had craft knives in the building and tried to insist that we used retractable box cutter knives instead.

At least he didn't suggest that you keep the knives retracted while working...

Supposedly a true story....
Some years ago the US Consumer Products Safety Division, having discovered that about 5 or so toddlers had drowned in buckets -- proposed that buckets should be provided with holes so they would leak.

The spread of Wal Mart in the US since the first store in 1962

Unfortunaely, re-orienting the axes will not work for printing to scale, you must rotate the model and use the default standard views.

To understand McCain it is necessary to use the "Where-O-Meter".

http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?videoId=163285

"When everyone is somebody,
Then no one's anybody"

Gilbert and Sullivan, "The Gondoliers"

A key distinction between the SketchUp Gallery and the Renders Gallery is the additional time involved in rendering (whether NPR or PR). The SketchUp gallery usually involves post-processing or image compositing in image processing programs like Photoshop.

On the old SU forum such techniques from as simple as exporting large images, then resizing down -- to the sophisticated techniques of Grant Marshall were instrumental in vastly improving the "native" SU output and of great benefit to users. And they took very little time compared to rendering applications. Even the great Grant Marshall and Worncall methods only take a few minutes at the most. Almost everyone has an image editing application so no additional purchases were necessary, nor is there a great learning curve to employ these techniques.

As for "pure" SU -- should the gallery be limited only to screenshots? Is image resizing allowed? (it would have to be to fit in this forum)

IMHO the present distinctions are just fine and should be maintained.

SketchUp for Dummies by Aidan Chopra is only $16.99 on Amazon. Start with that.

In theory you should be able to do it with photomatch and setting the axis position for overhead view, but....
I tried a local site for which I already had a building and had very poor results. I think the problem is with the extents of the live maps birdseye aerial photo. I could only use a screen capture which has the effect of cropping the image and therefore screwing up SU's photomatch axes. If you had a proper aerial photo (uncropped) it should work, however.

My only experience with Kinko's was $50 each for 16 x 16 mounted on gatorboard with clear laminate surface.

As for output from SU - render a jpg (best quality setting in the options dialog) as big as you can (max. is 9999 pixels) WITHOUT ANTIALIASING, then import into Pshop and resize down with bicubic resampling. Pshop will do the antialising much better than SU and almost instantaneously (and SU will tend to freeze with AA output above 3000 pixels, not to mention taking forever).

If you go to a Kinkos they will give you a proof for approval. I've printed large format at several different shops (eg. Colorworks) and have never had any problems. I always give them a photoshop file. I would suggest matte paper with laminated finish -- best color rendition plus UV protection, and mounted on gatorboard.

It may look flat to you, but the vertical surfaces (on the right side) are not vertical, nor is the top truly horizontal. Check by turning on display edges by axis (turn on hidden geometry).