New Tutorial! SketchUp Render using Blender and Photoshop

May 20, 2011

20th May 2011 @ 11am

Jean-Pierre Hurel (better known as Orgelf in the internet design communities), a visual artist, explains his simple technique on how to achieve this render of a SketchUp model he made by using Blender and Photoshop . It produces what has been described as a cartoon/comic book effect.

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Exporting Masks from SketchUp Models for Use in Photoshop

May 15, 2011

15th May 2011 @ 8pm

It’s somewhat peculiar to begin a tutorial for SketchUp with a prolonged discussion of a certain concept in image editing called masking. But without this clarification you might not quite understand why I set up my SketchUp models in a such a very specific manner.

So what are we talking about? Masking was originally a traditional “analog” art technique. Most adults will discover that they are familiar with it, even if they have never used it for anything more elaborate than house-painting: if you cover some part of a wall with “masking tape” and then paint across the surface, on removal of the tape you will find that the area it had covered was (hopefully) protected from the paint subsequently applied to that wall. In the fine arts, including painting, photography, printing, and even ceramics, this basic technique has been refined and elaborated in a thousand specific ways, depending upon the medium and the exact degree of protection of the underlying surface that the artist needs….

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Part 2 of Lighting with V-Ray for SketchUp – the definitive guide

May 4, 2011

4th May 2011 @ 1:00pm

Part 2 of the definitive guide to lighting with V-Ray for SketchUp by Nomer Adona has finally been published. Part 1 in this series can be found here. Nomer Adona continues his great mini series of lighting tutorials to help you get to grips with and simplify this often complex process, with some easy solutions to this often frustrating and confusing aspect to rendering. In this guide Nomer checks out Emissve materials to help light your SketchUp models.