Re: Windows 11 Xtra Lite French 32 Bits
Edgars Rob
Window panes are medium to small in size. In our house, the glass in our windows is mostly still the original pane, and as we look through some of them the image is distorted by the wavy uneven thickness of the glass.
So beautiful! I love the French windows. (extra love if crowned by wisteria in bloom!) Here in California, there's so little interesting (read; old) architecture. A house that is 100 years old is rare. I have fantasies of building a cottage with salvaged, vintage windows.
How lovely to see some of the window styles in your region. Where I live in the Haute -Vienne we have to have the style of the region, I think the building regulations have become a bit more relaxed from when we renovated our property, NO white window frames were allowed then, but now I'm seeing them creep in for the many new build properties.
Hi Sharon beautiful photographs, beautiful windows. I dream about having vintage iron windows and imagine how beautiful the garden would look through them. Thank you for sharing beauty. Regards Esther from Sydney. PS have a lovely weekend.
I agree with Jennifer Clark from California (I am from San Francisco), in our area it is rare to find French windows. Generally, if there are on houses it is on remodeled houses or brand new ones. I am missing these simple but great windows. Thinking you can open the windows to yourself invites you to meet with the elements of nature. You also can look over it which is not possible here as we have screens! Anyway, they do have a lot of charm!
This reminds me of the time my Daddy visited Ireland in 1970. Since he was an American politician, he was invited to the Dial and was entertained by a past mayor of Dublin. At the mayor's house, he fell in love with some brass window latches. The mayor sold them to him right off the windows! We had them in our kitchen and they have remained there through 3 different owners. If I pass by the house and see a new owner, I tell him about the kitchen latches.
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I really liked the photos of the windows and how they are decorated. Small windows look very good, but washing is probably not very convenient. I use the services of this company for washing windows, whose employees do their job well.
I took the photo below of a property I want to add a glass structure to, but the green foliage on the house is being removed and a few windows are being replaced with doors. I tried for days to work out how produce a render without modelling the entire house but I failed miserably. In the end I paid a company to produce the render you see in the second image which is very nice but not really the standard I hoped for. I basically sent them my original photo and my SketchUp model of the glass and they produced the render you see below.
you have multiple ways of producing such an image.
from what I can see, the company you paid clearly used a photo editing software, like photoshop, to remove the green foliage. you can see there is a lack of shadows below the roof, the coating is too plain, looking unatural, and a repetition of reflection on the new door. my guess is that they edited the base image and used it as a background with the glass rendering as a front layer.
But you could perfectly use your photo match skills to do the same rendering the whole thing, and keep the original roof to maintain the illusion.
vray is a good for this kind of exercice (so would be enscape) as it will keep your photomatch camera settings and you pointed it out yourself, you then just need to master a software in order to paracheve the integration. Honestly it is not very hard and photo editing softwares now have very powerful tools to achieve such a thing.
Perhaps they would be able to provide you with the layered working file (PSD, if they used Photoshop) so you can make the additional edits on your own? Or at the very least, give you the flattened background image (without the added render).
I have Photoshop CC, but I believe Photoshop Elements also has the Quick Mask tool. You could use that tool to add more realism to their edits. I blocked off the roof line here and added some shadow. Then, I used the quick mask tool to select the wall area, and used filters to add noise to create more texture.
My aim is to learn how to edit photos myself for future projects - if I can learn how this photo was edited then I can do pretty much anything myself going forward to a much higher standard using Vray and Photo Match.
Quick Mask, Clone Stamp, and Healing Brush will be helpful tools in that endeavor. I believe Photoshop Elements has all of these. Essentially you would use Quick Mask to pull apart the windows, doors, etc. onto different layers, and the Clone Stamp / Healing Brush to fix any overhanging foliage on them. Use the selection tools to draw up the wall area, and the filters to add noise/texture.
When dealing with the shadows, you can use the standard paint brush, and play with the hardness of the brush, the opacity/flow, and the layer blend modes to blend them into the wall layers (I used the Overlay blend mode for the shadow layer in my example).
First, model the basic house shape, and make sure you provide a bit of detail around any parts that you will be changing. This is because your VRAY render will need to provide reasonable shadows and reflections, otherwise it will look fake.
Essenially what you need to do is create a model of the house, but without the ivy, the existing windows that you are removing, and with the extra french doors, patio, and glass structure added.
To assist with this, you will need to create a few custom materials:
Main cladding material (stucco)
Brick material (lower cladding)
French doors.
You can do this using SketchUp (just import, trim and resize the photo, used as a material) , or if the materials are generic enough (like stucco or brick) you could download some seamless / repeating materials (or create your own). To help this process it would be handy to have a photo of the house straight-on (not on a perspective).
They dont have to be perfect, but should match as closely as possible in colour tone and lightness. For the french doors you can blend out the reflections first, otherwise theyll repeat and look fake.