i tried without photoshop (Updated)

[reza]

my second attempt to exterior...please suggest for changes...lightinh particularlly

[Psy]

i like the building, but please change the ground texture, far too light colored. also, give displacement for the grass a shot, would help add to the realism.

[Matt_3D]

The geometry itself is very nice, but the lighting and texturing needs a little tweaking. The grass is too flat, bright and repetitive. Like Psy said, try displacement. Maybe play a little with colour mapping aswell. Oh, one more little thing, I reckon road markings would add a bit of realism.

-Matt

[reza]

Updated

[Matt_3D]

That was quick

Nice improvement, maybe a little over saturated, but definetly moving along well.

-Matt

[kippu]

i read that you asked comments on lighting .....
well the bbuilding is nice.....but i think
a) the landscape needs work and the horizon especially
b) the sky is overpowering the building itself

other than that its nice

[suitaloon]

For the grass, you should use camera mapping instead of uvw tiling. it's easy to do as long as you have a nice picture and gives a more realistic feelingfor the ground, at least for the foreground. I agree on the comments about the image background: if you really don't want to "post prod" your image in Pshop, you need to build something in 3d, like a fake city with blocks of differnet sizes, or a faded away mountain background or something..