Crictics are welcome

[Anonymous]

I am meeting with a client on monday and I would like some comments on what else I can do to "spruce it up".

[Anonymous]

Alright, made some changes. I didn't even catch the grass roof. Wow, that would have been embarrassing. Please, try not to laugh at the landscaping. I tried a photo with a horizon, but when i went to lighten the rendering, all of my blue sky left too. Thank you guys so much for the input.

[Rakela Raul]

wow, congrats

[Anonymous]

Comments anybody? Our meeting was cancelled till tomorrow, so any other comments would be grateful.

[Eduardo Rolon]

just a little photoshop to try to make the image to be more of a drawing

[Anonymous]

That's a pretty neat effect.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Attached is a quick and pretty cheesy paint-up of your revised image in Piranesi. Using the standard styles and not doing much hand work gives it the cookie cutter look. (Also, Piranesi can 'lock' on colors, but with continuous tone jpegs, it is pretty tough. Piranesi is designed to paint the actual 3D model via the 2.5D 'epix' format. Then, you can quickly bucket sky reflection into the windows, etc.)

Cheers,
Karl

[Dwight]

The first thing to do with a plain building like this is to recompose the shot and add an interesting sky - with an implication of a horizon

[Anonymous]

I like it! Is that done in Photoshop?

[Dwight]

Yes. Photoshop - or whatever.

I knocked-out your plain sky and dropped this in behind.

Then I stretched it and graduated the sky to simulate a horizon.

[Dwight]

Further to PHotoshop use:

ArchiCAD Photoshoppistas should know about
Adobe Studio Exchange, where tricks and utilities are exchanged.

http://share.studio.adobe.com/Default.asp

In particular, you want to search for Photoshop Actions - macros that apply a sequence of effects and filters for sophisticated effects.

For example, here's "Toy Camera" - not that you would use it, but it shows how it transmogrifies an image using several steps.