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Ever need to add foreground trees to your rendered SketchUp scene? This quick tip is all you need.
Creating realistic foreground trees in SketchUp is difficult to achieve but using an image editor like PhotoShop makes the process much quicker and easier.
Here we will use simple cloning and erasing to transform your scene.
Adding trees to your render
Locate an image of foreground trees - if image is coloured desatutrate using Image > Adjustments > Desaturate - to create a black and white version..
Using Image > Adjustments > Curves adjust the image to increase curves which will alter the black and white values.
Copy and paste the tree layer over the original rendered image.
Remove unwanted areas from the tree layer to leave mostly the tree.
Set the tree layer blend mode to Multiply and do any clean up needed.
