Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Applications, Image Manipulation
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Scalado Remove could be just the app we need for taking those pictures of buildings in busy thoroughfares. We’ve all experienced the problem of having an unwanted pedestrian slap bang in the middle of the perfect shot. I have other apps that allow for the removal of unwanted objects from images but there successful use [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Applications, Augmented Reality, Image Manipulation
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

Version 2.2 of the popular ARmedia Augmented Reality Plugin has been officially released by Inglobe Technologies. The new version is available for Google SketchUp, Autodesk 3ds Max and Nemetschek Vectorworks. The full press release with demo videos can be found here.
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Architecture Art, Art, Books, Education, Google SketchUp, Google SketchUp Training, Image Manipulation, Modeling, Presentation, Render, Textures/Materials, Training
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
![Broadley's by John Higgins [Stacked Books Image] Broadley's by John Higgins [Stacked Books Image]](http://news.sketchucation.com/files/2011/11/Broadleys-by-John-Higgins-Stacked-Books-Image-90x65.jpg)
John Higgins, one our our regulars here on SFC has produced his first Mini Publication, Modeling Country British Home with Google SketchUp and Photoshop. The book is a ‘step by step’ on how he produces his wonderful models of existing commercial and domestic buildings around the UK. This Mini Publication at $4.95 also includes the [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
2D Art, All News, Drafting, Image Manipulation, Presentation
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

I’ve just learned about Inkscape, an ‘open source scalable vector graphics editor’ that would appear to work well with Google SketchUp via .dxf (save) and .dxf (import). There is an old topic on the SCF which has been resurrected which shows the above image that was created in Inkscape and imported to SketchUp here
Posted by Rich O'Brien
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

BossFanta (Anthony) has recently posted some stunning images in his long running thread ‘A New/Older SketchUp user !‘ Anthony, from Orleans in France, has a very unique style and presentation. Not to mention excellent ability and execution. You can teach an old dog new tricks!
Posted by Rich O'Brien
2D Art, All News, Image Manipulation, Modeling
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

leminlab aka Nicolas, one our the SFC regulars has created a number of cutout dancers for use in dance-floor scenes. The file also includes a DJ and the gear! The file can be found and downloaded from Nicolas’ thread here.
Posted by Rich O'Brien
All News, Design, Image Manipulation, Modeling
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

Insight3D lets you create 3D models from photographs. You give it a series of photos of a real scene (e.g., of a building), it automatically matches them and then calculates positions in space from which each photo has been taken (plus camera’s optical parameters) along with a 3D pointcloud of the scene. You can then [...]
Posted by Rich O'Brien
Case Studies, Google SketchUp, Image Manipulation, SketchUcation, SketchUcation Community Forums, The Daily CatchUp
Saturday, December 18th, 2010

Beeeeeee! by Artymedia Roberto Arróniz, one of our SCF members is developing an interesting website! Roberto’s description is as follows, ‘This is a flash website. The website will have a comic style. The theme is a hive of bees in a meadow. I will use SketchUp to create the scenario (to put a lot of [...]
Posted by Rich O'Brien
All News, Case Studies, Discussions, Google SketchUp, Image Manipulation, Podium, SketchUcation, SketchUcation Community Forums, The Daily CatchUp
Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Paul M. Olson one of our SCF members has created some fantastic kitchen remodeling jobs using an Su8 Pro – Podiumv2 – Photoshop Elements 7 workflow. Check out Paul’s work here, and follow this work in progress!
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Applications, Image Manipulation
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

What a gem InPaint is! This is just the application I have been wishing for. Now I can get rid of unwanted portions of pictures with just a few clicks! This is MUST for anyone that uses images in their work-flow! There is a free online version here http://www.webinpaint.com/ and both a Win and Mac [...]