Has anyone used a building picture & modified for Presentation?

[bjack56]

I have a client that wants changes to an existing building to a new restaurant shown using the building photo.

Can it be done?
Examples I can view?
Use Acad 2008, Sketch-up, Paintshop, other....on the cheap.

I am thinking Sketch-up with it's ability to stretch & modify an image & place on a surface is the way to go.

Quick...before this gets moved where nobody can find the post

[Railrose]

I have a client that wants changes to an existing building to a new restaurant shown using the building photo.

Can it be done?
Examples I can view?
Use Acad 2008, Sketch-up, Paintshop, other....on the cheap.

I am thinking Sketch-up with it's ability to stretch & modify an image & place on a surface is the way to go.

Quick...before this gets moved where nobody can find the post

I've never tried it, but seems to me that you could use whatever photo editing software you are comfortable with & make it work. You may have to get very creative to make it happen, but if you can find images that are similar to the additions, cutting & pasting might be an option.

[bjack56]

I's basicall a brick, 1-story, A-frame & adding windows, awnings, patio, patio furniture, people & cars.

[Mamma Jamma]

I've done it with Photoshop Elements (the really cheap version of Photoshop). I added an addition to an aerial view: rooftop units, piping, docks, the works. The client has it hanging on their wall. Of course, it was pretty much a duplication of what was there, but I had to play with shadows and all. They had me do the same for yet another addition.
It was really fun, to be honest. A nice change from CAD

Oh, and I've taken cars out of parking lots in an elevation view - that was tricky.

And once, I put Paris Hilton on a forktruck in a truck dock - because my boss has a warped sense of humor and the client "loves" P.H.

[ccowgill]

I have a client that wants changes to an existing building to a new restaurant shown using the building photo.

Can it be done?
Examples I can view?
Use Acad 2008, Sketch-up, Paintshop, other....on the cheap.

I am thinking Sketch-up with it's ability to stretch & modify an image & place on a surface is the way to go.

Quick...before this gets moved where nobody can find the post

I think I did that for my senior design project in college. what I did was make a flat 3d face and apply a material to it, the material was the picture that I wanted to use, it allowed me to have all the existing buildings in 3d around our proposed site. I am pretty positive I used 100% autocad for this one. with help from photoshop to glue the photographs together.

[michael.12445]

Seven or eight years ago I did something like this with Photoshop. We were working on a development in San Diego, which required that an historic house be moved to another site. I took a photo of the house and cut and pasted it into a photo of the site to which the developer was proposing to move it. If you didn't look very closely, the result looked as though the house had always been on the new site. The city approved the move. (Sorry, I don't have a copy of it any more.)

Michael Evans
Togawa Smith Martin Residential, Inc.

[bjack56]

Seems like LOTS of people use Photoshop, but I find it a little too complicated a Graphics program with a high learning curve.

Any suggestions for a graphics program for someone that doesn't have lots of time to spend learning a new program?

[ccowgill]

Seems like LOTS of people use Photoshop, but I find it a little too complicated a Graphics program with a high learning curve.

Any suggestions for a graphics program for someone that doesn't have lots of time to spend learning a new program?

I would almost have to say, if you want it to look real, you need to use an advanced program.