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Comparing renderers for SketchUp

SketchUp is proving to be interesting.  At some point, everyone wants to take their crude models and render them beautifully.  SketchUp does not really come with the ability to render more realistic-looking scenes.  For any functionality that SketchUp lacks, the norm...

Modeling rooms with a low barrier of entry

The Problem About a month ago or so, I was looking for a way to sketch out room layout plans.  Here's what I initially found: Autodesk's Maya / 3D Studio Max Although I have had familiarity with Maya and 3D Studio Max, I quickly eliminated them as solutions due to...

Creating outlines from photos

In Paint Shop Pro, I would click Filters >> Find Edges.  But for Photoshop, it's a combination of the following: Filters >> Other >> High Pass Image >> Adjustments >> Threshold Referenced from here.

Drawing text around a circle

I was recently creating a mockup and had need to draw text around a circle, like in an analog clock face.  In Photoshop, this involves two things: Understanding that text can follow an arbitrary path. How to draw a circular path. I came across a good video tutorials...

A palette of 3D models

I'm not a modeler or texturer.  I've dabbled in it enough to understand workflows, but not practiced enough to make awesome-looking things.  Evidently, with the advent of 3D modeling and 3D printing, a number of sites have popped up where people put up free 3D assets....

Removing photos from Android without removing from Drive

My phone started to run out of space recently.  Turns out that I had a lot of photos on it taking up space.  When I deleted them, I noticed that the photos would disappear from Google Drive too - not exactly what I wanted.  Happens to be a way to remove the photos...