11 Tips for Sprucing Up Your Arch Viz Images

Great tutorial here. This is an archviz professional giving great tips on how to spruce up an images. As you can see from the sampled image, his tips work pretty good. This is definitely worth a read.

Free Tree Line Cutouts

I found this little collection of free tree lines. They are saved as .png so they already have a very nice alpha channel. These are very useful for anyone that needs a nice background / midground. Check them out here.

Vray for Sketchup Tutorial - Post Processing Your Renderings in Photoshop

Sometimes an image just needs a little adjustment to take it to the next level. This is where Photoshop comes in. This video is actually a recording of a webinar that lasts about 40 minutes. The speaker goes over his entire process for enhancing his images after rendering the out of Vray. It is very informative. If you have a little time to spend have a look. The techniques shown are extremely valuable to any visualization professional.

Photoshop for Post-Rendered Work from ASGVIS, LLC on Vimeo.

Creative Director Yavuz “Yavo” Goncu" shares his Photoshop for post-rendered work secrets. Webinar from March 14, 2009

Download the practice scene files from http://bit.ly/coFMIP (Scroll to the bottom of page.)

Vray for Sketchup Tutorial - Lighting

Vray is the best tool to add the necessary power to SketchUP. This tutorial shows why. It uses global illumination technology, including area lights, physical sun and sky, etc. (all seen in this video) to create images that far surpass what SketchUP can do on its own. Watch this tutorial for a basic overview of how the lighting works, and how it can enhance your scenes.

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Basic Light Settings in V-Ray for SketchUp
Video tutorial by Jorge Barrero.

PSD Manager 3

PSD Manager is a powerful tool for those of us to need to composite and do heavy post-processing. It creates an easy workflow for rendering mattes of individual objects, specific object IDs, material IDs, or even whole layers. It can also render out "pre-composited" 32 bit images, making the compositing process much easier. This is the process that is demonstrated here in this video. The video also acts as a good tutorial for compositing using render elements.