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.
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Official Google SketchUp Sites
- Google SketchUp – Free from official site
- Add Textured 3D Buildings – to Google Earth (Free)
- Google 3D Warehouse – Free 3D Models
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Brushes for post-production work
- DesignM.ag – 500+ watercolor brushes for Photoshop
- Naldz Graphics – Free vintage brush sets
- Bittbox – Great brushes and tutorials
- PS Brushes – 500+ high-quality brushes classified by categories
- Get Brushes – 150+ brushes categorized
- Brushes 500ml – About 50 linkware brushes
- Brusheezy – Cool Brushes
- Graphicxtras – Brushes, fonts, plugins and shapes….good selection of resources
- Blinding-Light – Free brushes and other useful content
- DeviantArt – Some great free tree brushes and much more
- Spyrestudios – 600+ light effect brushes
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Social Networks – check us out!
- Twitter – News and Updates
- Facebook – News and Updates
- Youtube – Cool Videos
- tumblr – News and Updates
- Twitpic – Our site images, please comment
- 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.