Resources

resources

Resources

Welcome to our resource section where you will find some great Photoshop sites for tutorials and freebies which will help enhance your Photoshop skills and post-processing techniques. There are also some useful SketchUp addons that we have picked out and other useful official SketchUp related links and sites.

Google_SketchUp

Official Google SketchUp Sites

Forums_Communities

Forums and Communities

  • SketchUp Sage – User created companion source to many frequently asked questions
  • SketchUcation – SketchUp Community Forum and information
  • Google Help groups – New Google SketchUp Help forum
  • Push Pull Bar – Architecture and design forum
  • Squarepolygon – Question and answer site for questions related to 3d modelling, 3d stock and visualisation

Forums and Communities Non – English

    Plugins

    Google SketchUp Plugins

    Image_Editing

    Free Image Editing Software

    • Paint.Net - Free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
    • Sumo Paint – Free image editor and painter software, really cool.
    • Pixlr – This free plugin turns Firefox into a full featured Photoshop like image editor using the excellent pixlr without having to visit the site.
    • ProjectSketch – ProjectSketch is a free SketchUp add-on distributed by ProjectMatrix for the selection and placement of commercial office furniture in SketchUp drawings. ProjectSketch is free and includes a generic furniture library with hundreds of 3D contract furniture components. A multi-manufacturer data subscription that includes CAD data from do
    • Little Ink Pot – The Sketcher Plugin was created to provide illustrative effects to computer images, whether photographs, computer drawn pictures or 3D renderings. It can render smooth artistic pencil sketches, pen and ink illustrations, and a number of different halftone/threshold effects.
    • FotoSketcher – FotoSketcher is a 100% free program which can help you convert your digital photos into art, automatically. If you want to turn a portrait, the photograph of your house or a beautiful landscape into a painting, a sketch or a drawing then look no further.
    • Gimp – The world famous free image editing software.
    • 3DPaysage – This free software creates 3D terrain (or something else) from a picture. The mesh can be exported to different formats including .obj.

    Models_Textures

    Free 3D Models and Textures

    • CadYou – Free 3D models (SketchUp) textures and Cad Blocks
    • Frecle – Nice little free tree generator and a few other goodies that may be of interest
    • Vyonyx – Cutout people, trees, textures and tutorials
    • Archiforge – Textures and CAD library
    • Google 3D Warehouse – Free 3D SketchUp Models
    • Appiani – Free 3D library and textures
    • 3D Filter – Search hundreds of thousands of 3D models and textures
    • Archive 3D – Large collection of free 3D models
    • 3Dup.com – Free Grasses and weed models in 3ds, very useful!
    • Bricks’n'Tiles – Design Photo-realistic textures for high quality 3D content
    • Amazing 3D Graphics – Various models from vehicles to tools and buildings
    • CGDigest – Selection of models from furniture to transport and electronics
    • D Legend – Good quality free furniture models
    • Turbosquid Free – Loads of good quality free models

    Photoshop

    Popular Photoshop sites with tutorials and freebies!!

    • The Plugin Site – Free Photoshop plug-ins
    • Obsidian Dawn – Loads of free Photoshop stuff
    • Free 4 Photoshop – Free Photoshop brushes, styles, patterns, shapes,PSD and more
    • PSD tuts+ – The mother of all PS sites for tuts and freebies
    • Tutorial 9 – Tutorials (check out School of Photoshop)
    • PSDFAN – New kid on the block, with great tutorials
    • PSHERO – Great set of unique tutorials and tips and tricks
    • PhotoshopStar – More tutorials and resources
    • Smashing apps – Free hand drawn style icons, brushes, textures and fonts

    Brushes

    Brushes for  post-production work

    Social_Networks

    Social Networks – check us out!

      If you know of anymore useful free resources for the SketchUp design community please contact us or comment below and we will add it to the list.

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