Architectural_Design_with_SketchUp

Chapter 5 Rendering in SketchUp
Figure 5.82: People models available from the 3D Warehouse
Figure 5.83: Different perspective renderings of people
Example 5.5: Adding a Person to an Image in Photoshop
To add a person using your photo-editing software, follow the procedure illustrated in
Figure 5.84. These instructions are for Adobe Photoshop—modify them slightly if you are
using another type of software.
1. Load the rendered scene image into Photoshop.
2. Load a photograph of a person into Photoshop. Make sure the view and the lighting roughly
work with the scene and viewpoint of your rendering. It is best if the photograph has a uniformly
colored background because you need to remove this background in the next step.
3. Cut out the shape using appropriate selection tools (the Lasso and the Magic Wand tools
are very helpful here).
4. Paste the shape twice into your rendered image. You create two different layers this way.
Figure 5.84: Adding a person and her shadow using Photoshop
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