Create photo-realistic and artistic visuals for SketchUp models with a new book from Packt

May 10, 2010 - PRLog -- Packt is pleased to announce a new book on SketchUp that helps to create picture-perfect photo-realistic 3D architectural renders for SketchUp models. SketchUp 7.1 for Architectural Visualization: Beginner's Guide teaches to master unique tools to use SketchUp as a full featured professional rendering, animation, and visualization tool.

SketchUp, the most popular architectural software package, is used by millions of architects and visualizers throughout the world. With this book, users will be able to get started immediately using SketchUp's image editing techniques and open-source rendering software. Users will quickly learn about materials, texturing, composition, photo-compositing, lighting setup, rendering, and post-processing.

Users will also learn from this book how to create composites of real and rendered images, and also enhance their digital and paper presentations. A “Quickstart” tutorial provided in the first chapter will get readers rendering a photo-realistic scene immediately while the rest of the book builds on this knowledge with in-depth concepts, tricks, and methods through quick tutorials.

Users will find out to master low polygon modeling techniques needed for visualizations, and enhance models by adding depth of field and other post-process tricks in GIMP. They will be able to devise movie-set scenes to digitally photograph their projects. With smooth camera paths, they will learn to create airborne and walk-through animations.

Professional architects and designers who want to take their 3D designs to the next level and follow a professional visualization studio workflow will find this book useful. The book is out now and is available from Packt. For more information, please visit http://www.packtpub.com/sketchup-7-1-for-architectural-vi...