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25th June 2011

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Soft Colored Pencil Line Technique - SketchUp & Photoshop

Our latest tutorial by architect Jason Christiansen, a nice post processing tutorial to please your clients with…rendered image from SketchUp and worked on in Photoshop.

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18th June 2011

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Exterior Night Rendering:SketchUp to Photoshop

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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20th May 2011

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New Tutorial! SketchUp Render using Blender and Photoshop

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


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10th May 2011

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Collection of New SketchUp Styles for May

Some (8) Pen,Ink and Pencil Styles by mega contributor Dave Richards..

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5th May 2011

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Part 2 of Lighting with V-Ray for SketchUp

Second part of Nomer Adona’s mini series on lighting with V-Ray has just been published. Light your scenes and SketchUp models with Emissive materials, yes Emissive materials ! You can also check out Part 1 here

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15th March 2011

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New Tutorial Daylight Rendering - SketchUp to Photoshop

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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7th March 2011

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Latest book review on - Google SketchUp Workshop – modeling, visualizing and illustrating

Google SketchUp Workshop – modeling, visualizing and illustrating is Laurent Brixius’s latest release into the publishing world and is the much anticipated English translation of his first book ‘Créer avec SketchUp – 16 projets, de l’architecture au théâtre’. My French is somewhat limited, and to be honest pretty abysmal (not one of my favorite subjects at school I’m afraid…sorry), so it was with great pleasure that I got the opportunity to read through and examine personally what this latest edition of the English version has to offer.

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6th March 2011

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The Bottom Line - Making Money With Google SketchUp

The global economic downturn forced Robert Pineo,an Architect from Charlottesville, VA to move out of the office in search for work and there he surprisingly discovered new and alternative ways to sell SketchUp. He talks to Mateo Soletic about Pre-development design and his other experiences: “The lessons I learned opened my eyes to a business opportunity most architects have not tapped: the need to tell a compelling story.“

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6th March 2011

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Google SketchUp and Experimental Architecture

Lewis Wadsworth is a designer and artist located in Boston, Massachusetts. He works principally in the field of architecture. Lewis’s architectural projects have appeared in AIArchitect, journal of the American Institute of Architects, and has been honored by the Boston Society of Architects. Being great fans of his “Experimental Architecture”, his unique presentation style and narrative, we decided to present his three chosen works in their original form. We think that the images and the accompanying text are truly inspirational.

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