Suburban Garden

[dorfpunk]

Putting aside the whole 2D vs 3D plants thing for a bit - any comments on this? There is a lot of plant material and different things going on because it's just that type of garden. Anyway - presentation wise - any thoughts? (I have some things I am questioning but I would like to see if others think the same)

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[Stu]

A nice image....leaving alone the 2D/3D plant thing

I like the lawn and gravel textures.

I find the area around and above the pond a little congested and possibly not indicating clearly [in this image] your design intentions.

And for what its worth, I would be inclined to make that pond area stronger and simpler.....but just my opinion

[dorfpunk]

Cheers Stu - the gravel, I think is from this site somewhere and the lawn is done in photoshop. This is not the kind of garden I usually work on. It is very traditional - big serious pottager section, lots of plants etc

Anyway, the last image was meant to show off the wall, here is the pond area

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...and the view from the day bed at the back of the garden

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[Fletch]

These look GREAT!
It may be the monitor I am using, but they seem a bit dull/flat. I think with a slight enhancement, they could be even better.

[dorfpunk]

Thanks Fletch - I agree that you have brought them out well there - what have you used for this? Is that just the high pass thing or have you done other magic to them?

[Fletch]

I used 2 settings from Topaz Labs Adjust Filter, but this is not necessary, just very fast/lazy.

I think anyone with photoshop can do a lot with the Post Production - Secret 1.

Or, in this case, you can get far by copying the image up one layer, and using high-pass filter technique to sharpen it a bit, then copying that layer on top of itself, setting blending for that layer to Multiply, and setting its opacity to 50%.

[derei]

the grass is awesome! Is it made with Fur plugin for sketchUp?

[dorfpunk]

Grass is made like this http://twilightrender.com/phpBB3/viewto ... 61&start=0

I guess I am going to declare this done now although I feel there is always more that can be fixed and I am sure that my photoshop stuff wasn't nearly as effective as what Fletch did in the examples above. Never mind - here it is

Looking out from the porch

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The pond area

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View from the Daybed

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[dorfpunk]

Oh yeah, and the Day Bed

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[Fletch]

Lovely work, Dorfpunk!

Maybe just an "auto levels" in Photoshop or something, as long as they print well for the client, that's what matters.