Resources

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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 off-site links.

Official Google SketchUp Sites

Google SketchUp – Free from official site
Add Textured 3D Buildings – to Google Earth (Free)
Google 3D Warehouse – Free 3D Models

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
PushPullBar – Architecture and design forum
Squarepolygon – Question and answer site for questions related to 3d modeling, 3d stock and visualization

Forums and Communities Non – English

Google SketchUp Plugins

Google SketchUp Plugins – Extend the functionality of SketchUp with this list of sites
Visual Index of Popular Plugins – List of reference images and how the Plugins work
SketchUp Tips – SketchUp Plugins Blog by Jim Foltz
Ruby Library Depot – Loads of plug-ins for SketchUp on Didier Bur’s site

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.
FastStone – A collection of free image editing and viewing software.
Photoscape – Free photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos

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
Designfreebies – Free high resolution photos of skies, clouds, sunsets and much more
CG Textures – The worlds largest free texture site
Archi-Vision Studio – Some nice watercolor entourage images (skies,trees, bushes, people and cars)
Paul Bourke – Texture library
3dmd.net – Free textures for 3D artists
3Dmodelsharing – Free library once you register, various file types

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
Vintage Pistols – Free pack of vector illustrations