House exterior

[bpozas]

This is a design I'm working on for a client.

[zuliban]

is looking very good but you have a tree area shadow on the street and raytraced shadows on the stucture they don mix well the shadow on the house are very dark for that sky. good work

[trixian]

Actually he is using area shadows for his sun light, but I don't think that is what is making it a bit dull. Getting more puch to that sun would help a lot, and letting more sky light further into the openings and holes, and brightening the sky image in the bg. Other than that, maybe use displacement on the stacked stone walls.

[RErender]

Cool design, I would expect about that contrast in the shadows,maybe they need a few more samples I like the dark recesses but I think the should be balanced with brighter brights. I also think the car would work beter as a complimentary color rather than the beige.

[trixian]

Heh...I just did a quick colour tweak in photoshop...and I think it looks a bit more sunny and bright. (hope you don't mind).

[shytigercp]

RE

Displace that nice stone

[carlosark]

QUE TAL BERNARDO!!!
me gusta mucho este tipo de arquitectura, tu render es muy bueno, pero los arboles de lado izquierdo se repiten.....talvez estaria bien cambar uno de ellos.
pero de todas maneras !!!!! great work !!!!!

[kippu]

hey nice design and nice render,,...


trixian it looks good after you tweaked....what magic did you exactly do?

[trixian]

Heh...just brought out some detail in the darker areas with the new shadow / hilight adjustment in photoshop cs (glad I dont have to fiddle with that manually any more), and then I neutralized the greys so the colour balance wasnt tinted (it had that 70's beige look originally) through a levels adjustment. No magic really.

[bpozas]

Thanks trixian!, I dont have those tools in my photoshop 7, is that a new version?.

I haven´t had that much time for the renders in this project, because the client doesn't even want to see tha plans of the house so I have to render almost every room of the house. I guess as an architect this renders can back fire because the clients don't pay attention to the plans and only want to see the images.

Thanks everybody for the advices.

[trixian]

Well you don't have the shadow/hilight adjustment in photoshop 7, but it can be done manually.
(The following explaination is the non-destructive approach. You can do this the ordinary way by adjusting the images directly, but then there is no way to tweak them afterwards).

Clone the image, add an "invert" adjustment layer, assign it to the clone by alt clicking between the "invert" layer and the clone, thus exluding it from affecting the base layer.
Add a hue/saturation adjustment layer (desaturate fully), and repeat the procedure so it only affects the cloned layer.
You now have a b/w negative of your base layer.
Now change the blending mode of your cloned layer to soft light, and add a gaussian blur to this layer. As you adjust the rasius of the blur, you will see at what radius you want to set it. You can now adjust the cloned layers fillrate/opacity to suit your wishes.
For tidyness sake you can place all the adjustment layers and the clone in a layer set. This really helps to keep things tidy if you have lots of these in an image.
This procedure can be used to affect different parts of your light range, and you can then make a new clone to only affect your brighter levels.
By adjusting the cloned layers blending options (double clicking the layer), hold alt down and drag the inner markers of either black or white (or both), so they sepparate from the outer markers of the "blend if" part of the dialogue.
This combined with layer masks, you should have complete controll over the exposure of your image.
As for the grey levels tinting, just add a levels adjustment layer (or a curves one), and pres the options button before you adjust the histogram/curve.
Check snap to midtones and chose one of the 3 modes to adjust the colours. I usualy go with the "find dark & light colours" one.
Now click the midtones colour swatch and pick a colour in your image you know is supposed to be 50% grey.
This part can be a bit tricky, as some images dont have any grey colours in them, so then you need to adjust the colour in the picker window manually until your image looks right.
(I just picked a point on the tarmack and it was fine on the first try).
Hope that helps for future CC sessions you might run into.

[Guilherme Canabrava]

It is almost a tutorial!

[trixian]

Hey...he asked

[modshy]

OH MY GOD,U R "FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'