@technohippy said:

my goal is realism, not perfection.

And you sure nailed it.

What else can I say? This is eye candy! Great concept, nice modelling, and excellent renders. IMO, the render with the ruler looks the most photo-realistic. It looks too imperfect for a render. Looking forward to seeing your next project.

Hmmm. I know I've seen this somewhere before. Perhaps the Kerkythea forums a few months back?

Holy crap! That's one incredible presentation. Excellent!

@tadema said:

Thank you everyone, John the square lines are the PNG files (trees) placed into the model. The trees look normal in most styles but that's how they show in hidden line mode. Hope this makes sense. Did you click the image for the larger view, you should be able to see Sammy Swan better.
regards John

Oh, so all your trees are imported right into your SketchUp model. Thanks.

Aha! Now I see him! I was looking at it (him) the wrong way.

@numbthumb said:

The clue is in the images' title

Ah, OK. I though that might be what it was but I wasn't sure.

Another beauty. The chimney looks great.

I have a question. What are the transparent rectangles in your SketchUp model? I figured they have something to do with the placement of plants in Photoshop but I don't really understand. Would you mind explaining?

Also, what is the white object toward the bottom left corner of the screen?

@tig said:

Most Photoshop plugins work with Gimp if you have the special plugin that lets you use them... Available from the developers page on http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/pspi.html Pspi is a GIMP plug-in that runs 3rd-party Photoshop plug-in filters...

Thanks TIG!

So this is free now? Looks great. Will it work with Gimp?

That helps a bunch! Thanks!

@dave r said:

FWIW, on my computer, the Up arrow toggles the start and end positions on the curve and the Down Arrow toggles the start and end positions for the straight line. The Left and Right arrows don't do diddly.

Mine works the same way.

These are great styles, as always Dave.

@dave r said:

Which is better? Before or after the second run through FotoSketcher?

Well, in my opinion, they're two different styles and you might use them for different purposes. However, I love how the first one is sketchy, and yet so clean.

@gaieus said:

@unknownuser said:

You do know that no one reads your posts, right TIG?

I doappreciate and enjoy TIG's little lessons here.

Just messing with him. I read them. Except of course when he delves deep into the far reaches of the world of Ruby where my brain dares not venture . . .

Yeah, every time I see someone misuse their, there, or they're, it drives me crazy. I guess I'm just too much of a perfectionist.

You do know that no one reads your posts, right TIG?

Karlheinz, I've been having the same thing happen to me lately. Tap the down arrow key. That fixes it for me.

Chris, out of curiosity, what does the down arrow key do exactly?

Edit: I've been beat. Sorry.

Just keep them all I guess.

I'm a packrat and usually don't delete anything, (pictures, programs, even bookmarks on my browser) unless I'm absolutely sure I will never need it again. I usually end up keeping them even when I am sure, even though I know I can usually find them again somehow.

I would keep them as they don't take up much space on your hard drive and you never know when you might need them.

Very nice. I like the irregularities such as a random open window and the open door. It really adds realism and takes away some of the monotony of repeating geometry.

That looks much better.

Great style, as always.

Have you considered using non-photorealistic face me people? The ones you have seem to contrast a lot with the style you have.

They are great nonetheless.

@liam887 said:

@imabzeous said:

These are prety old busted :d wot you say

that third one is amazing, is that heavy post pro or a style you have created? Even so love it

Looks like FotoSketcher to me.

Thank you so much, Rich! Your tutorial is extremely helpful, and easy! I'll go try it right now.

Thanks again to everyone for helping me out.

Windy, I thought about PhotoMatch but was wondering if there was another way I could do it. I am not proficient in PhotoMatch and from what I've played around with it, I don't see how to get very accurate results. Maybe I'll watch some tutorials and try again using PhotoMatch.

Welcome by the way.

Bjorn, thank you. I'm not sure if my roof is regular enough to do this but I will definitely try.