From the course: SketchUp: Concept Drawings with Photoshop
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Add trees and foliage
From the course: SketchUp: Concept Drawings with Photoshop
Add trees and foliage
- [Instructor] Now that we have the grass in place we can start to add foliage such as trees and bushes. Now you can do this in a number of ways. You can use photorealistic trees or clip art, that sort of thing. Now, I like to go back into SketchUp and use some of their 2D trees, which give a nice drawn look and they're easy to position. So let's go back into SketchUp. So here I have my original drawing, and one of the things I didn't show you when we first worked with this was some of the layers that I had in the scene. Now I actually have a layer here called foliage. Now this is just a few trees and bushes, and you can see these a little bit easier if you turn off the building and the furniture layers. Now if I want I can add a few more of these and then I'm going to use these are the raw material in SketchUp. So, I'm actually going to go into my components window and then just use this navigation here. And we actually have a landscape option. Now these are just stock, SketchUp…
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Set up the scene3m 11s
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Export layers to Photoshop7m 22s
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Use bold colors for easy selection3m 18s
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Import into Photoshop3m 19s
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Adjust line quality5m 10s
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Add shadows6m 53s
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Glass and reflections3m 31s
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Create water effects4m 30s
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Paint grass6m 36s
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Add trees and foliage12m 10s
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Create depth effects6m 34s
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Finalize the image4m 26s
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