SketchUp and Photoshop

Google SketchUp and Photoshop based tutorials (sometimes additional software depending on tutorial). Learn how to perfect your modeling with new post-processing skills, techniques and easy to follow step by step instructions provided by highly talented professional contributors.

Making of Aquarium of Canada by Scott Baumberger

Scott Baumberger has been offering a high quality professional service to architects, designers and developers for many years. In this step by step guide Scott shows us his work-flow in producing a digital watercolor. Software used includes SketchUp, Shaderlight and Photoshop.

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Watercolor Style – SketchUp, Fotosketcher and Photoshop by Jonathan Ignas

Architectural 2D to 3D visualizer and graphic artist Jonathan Ignas shows us his technique on how to create a digital watercolor using Google SketchUp, Fotosketcher and Photoshop. Basic skills in Google SketchUp and Photoshop are necessary to successfully complete this tutorial.

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SketchUp to Photoshop – no render engine required by Alex Hogrefe

As the title implies, this architecture illustration tutorial doesn’t use a rendering engine. Alex has done a few other tutorials in the past that don’t involve rendering programs, however this tutorial does things a little differently, and in less time.

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Soft Colored Pencil Line Technique by Jason Christiansen

Jason has his own unique style and here in this tutorial he shares some of his knowledge and workflow with this NPR style and technique that will produce some really professional looking final images for presentation.

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Exterior Night Rendering: SketchUp to Photoshop by Alex Hogrefe

This tutorial will create an artistic night rendering by exporting images from SketchUp to Photoshop. As in some of my previous tutorials no external rendering programs are needed… saving a lot of time!

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Exporting Masks from SketchUp Models for Use in Photoshop by Lewis Wansworth

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. Read more on my unique technique to help you in your daily workflow.

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The Making of Down the Lane by John Higgins

John Higgins shows us how he puts together an image he had in his head of an old street scene ( in Yorkshire) to complement a project he had been working on.  John says that its not his usual method of modeling, but just another take on how versatile Google SketchUp can be. He also uses Photoshop and V-Ray for SketchUp in this fascinating little project.

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Daytime Rendering – SketchUp to Photoshop by Alex Hogrefe

Another superb quick and easy tutorial by Alex. This tutorial will create a daytime rendering by exporting images from Google SketchUp to Photoshop. This means no external rendering programs are needed. This rendering is not meant to be realistic, but instead, provide an option for quick artistic renderings without the ‘SketchUp’ look. Quick and simple!

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SketchUp to Photoshop – lighting by Alex Hogrefe

People have been asking me how I create my renderings. Since I am finished with grad school, I decided to develop some tutorials that explain techniques I used throughout architecture school. Many of the techniques only require SketchUp and Photoshop. This tutorial will explain a way to create a night scene with lights, using only SketchUp and Photoshop. This technique is quick if your under a time crunch.

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Create a Tile Imprint – SketchUp, Photoshop, Pixplant and V-Ray by Nomer Adona

The idea behind this tutorial is to help you to achieve a tile imprint design from scratch. Modeled in Google SketchUp, the textures are prepared in Photoshop and Pixplant, and finally rendered in V-Ray for SketchUp. Learn new skills with this nice little tutorial by Nomeradona.

Texture Workflow with SketchUp, Photoshop & Podium by Nomer Adona

This short tutorial  will show you the work-flow in texturing a scene using Podium, SketchUp 7 and Photoshop. The methodology has been discussed before, but I would love to share it again for those of you who may have missed it.

The Edith Green Wendell Wyatt Federal Building - a digital watercolor with Photoshop by Scott Baumberger

Scott Baumberger has been offering a high quality professional service to architects, designers and developers for many years. He uses a digital process to produce imagery that ranges in technique from photo-realistic to simulated watercolor effects. In this detailed tutorial  Scott shows us his work-flow in producing a digital watercolor using a SketchUp output image and Photoshop. A great tutorial and a must read!

SketchUp 2D Image Export with Alpha Mask by David Macdonald

This is the first of three tutorials concerning the exporting of SketchUp models to other applications as 2D graphics. They are progressive. You need to do them in order, as each will assume knowledge from the previous. This tutorial deals with the export process, particularly the creation of Alpha Masks for your model.

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USC Village – A step-by-step guide to making  a “digital watercolor” architectural illustration using  SketchUp and Photoshop by Scott Baumberger

Scott Baumberger has been offering a high quality professional service to architects, designers and developers for many years. In this detailed tutorial  Scott shows us his workflow in producing a digital watercolor using a SketchUp output image and Photoshop.

Use Image Editing Software Inside SketchUp by Nomer Adona

This simple little tutorial will show you how to edit a texture image right inside Google SketchUp with Photoshop or whichever image editing software you use.

Add a Rotoscope Effect to Your Image by Rocky Vezeau

A quick and simple method in achieving a Rotoscope effect for a rendered image by Rocky Vezeau, aka ‘xrok1′. A regular contributor on the SketchUcation, Twilight and Podium forums to mention a few and now here at SketchUpArtists. ‘Rotoscoping’ is the term used when artists paint or trace over live-action film, frame-by-frame, to create an animation and it is being used in everything from television commercials to Hollywood movies.

A  Watercolor and Line Drawing Ink Effect by Nomer Adona

This tutorial is not about rendering but how to compose a watercolor and ink effect using a few simple steps. I am using a rendered image in order to add depth, particularly on some main areas. I use a couple of styles and V-Ray for a render image in some of the steps.

Pencil Overlay by Sid Porobic

This tutorial has stemmed out of the need to produce attractive “hand made” images which are to be used when discussing architectural projects with clients and planning authorities alike.

V-Ray Image Post-Processing in Photoshop by Teofilo Pardo

This tutorial has been designed for those people who are not using Photoshop as much as they should in their post-processing workflow or not using it on a regular basis. It incorporates lots of hints and tips and shows what can be done in the post-processing of a V-Ray output image of a SketchUp model.

Create a Fake Render in Photoshop by Majid Yeganegi

This tutorial is going to show you how to ‘fake’ a render using Photoshop. It is very simple and straight forward and I hope you find it very useful as it could be one quick option in your work process…

Photomontage Tutorial by Teofilo Pardo

This tutorial is going to show you how to blend a render into a real photo. This is my post-processing method.