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Photoshop Tutorial: Pimp 3D Architecture Rendering with Textures, Billboard Trees and People

Sometimes, we don’t have time to produce a realistic architectural Illustration and all its effects completely in the 3D environment, therefore I often use Adobe Photoshop in the post process to add some effects.

For this tutorial I want to start with a rendering I created in Lumion 3.0, but at the end it does not really matter which animation or rendering software you use, because I want to show you my step-by-step post processing approach of an architectural illustration in Photoshop. [Read more…] about Photoshop Tutorial: Pimp 3D Architecture Rendering with Textures, Billboard Trees and People

3ds MAX and VRay Tutorial: Basic daylight interior visualization for beginners – Render like a photographer

This is Kanak and I want to explain you here exclusively on tonytextures.com how you can easily set up a daylight interior scenery in 3ds MAX by using VRay rendering engine with a bit of Photoshop correction of the RAW rendering afterwards.

I would love to call my approach rendering through the eye of a photographer. I think this is the best way for you to learn how to render without knowing a thousand of parameter. I will go through following steps to explain my method: [Read more…] about 3ds MAX and VRay Tutorial: Basic daylight interior visualization for beginners – Render like a photographer

Water Displacement Map For Photoshop – Free Download

Need a displacement map (Photoshop) of a water surface? In the Photoshop Tutorial: Create Water Reflection for Architectural Illustration you can follow in detail how to create a reflecting water surface in Photoshop quickly. For many people, this is surely a valid alternative to directly rendering the water surface, especially when it needs to be done fast and you’re not familiar with the render settings. The core of the process is creating a displacement map with which you can create the effect of a water surface on a mirrored part of the image. [Read more…] about Water Displacement Map For Photoshop – Free Download

How to cut out a water fountain – Photoshop Tutorial

How to cut out a water fountain in Adobe Photoshop

To bring life to a rendered architectural scenery, you sometimes need a nice water fountain. For examle for hotel animations or urban public places.

A common approach is to render your complete scenery and add all decorating elements like cutout persons, plants and also a water fountaine in the post process in Photoshop. But therefore you first need already a masked cutout water fountain. In this tutorial I would like to show you an example how to cutout water quickly. [Read more…] about How to cut out a water fountain – Photoshop Tutorial

Photoshop Tutorial: Turning a scene from day to night

You mostly will first create a day scene from your architectural visualisations. But sometimes afterwards you need a night scene to set the focus on the impression in the evening or night. This often is imporant for buildings like a theatre, opera or even a stadium.

Therefore I will show you a quite easy method to tur a day scene to a night scene. [Read more…] about Photoshop Tutorial: Turning a scene from day to night