topic Re: Google Earth Connection Snapshot in Black and White in Visualization

Google Earth Connection Snapshot in Black and White

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 11:39:40 GMT

When using the snapshot function for the Google Earth Connection Add on, the Google Earth image comes into Archicad to the correct scale and orientation, which is very nice, BUT the image is in Black and White. I have looked through the Google Earth Connection manual and the settings within Google Earth itself and cannot find a setting to have the image be in color. Does anyone else have this problem. or how to fix it?

I have attached a Lightworks rendering showing the color building and the black and white images.

thanks,

Jeff

Re: Google Earth Connection Snapshot in Black and White

Erika Epstein — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:23:43 GMT

See Karl Ottenstein's tip here

Re: Google Earth Connection Snapshot in Black and White

Karl Ottenstein — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:44:37 GMT

Thanks, Erika. I should add another probably obvious tip - besides saving the color image from GE, to replace the B/W one, consider opening the color image in a photo editor first to do some adjustments. Besides cloning out some of the Google text (much of which can be turned off in the GE view options) - I found that to get a good Lightworks render, I needed to adjust the image levels a bit. For areas with water, the Google satellite imagery often shows splotchy odd colors. It's nice to smooth that out and overlay some blue, etc...

Cheers,
Karl