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Hey everyone,

I was wondering if some 1 out there could help me with making plants and shrubs even grass even tho i think i got that down. I have been really into Terragen sinse i got it a few days ago and I have been using it with phtoshop a lot but there are no plants or any thing using Terragen and i have never attempted plants in photoshop so if you could give me some pointers, i am intrested in any type of plants you know how to make.

Thanks
Keith
 
There is a free plugin for Photoshop called Plants4PS
I've used it a lot; works great!
 
hmm :) I have not downloaded any plug in's sinse i started using it a year ago maybe i should start :D But where could a guy go about getting this plug in and some other cool plug ins to make life easier?

Thanks
Keith
 
I'd be curious about Josh's plant plugin, too. Unfortunately Google's response to his search terms yielded...

Your search - Plants4PS - did not match any documents.
No pages were found containing "plants4ps".

Now, I don't know of any free methods of making plants for use in PS but there is a rather expensive but wonderful 3D plug-in for Photoshop called Verdant.http://www.digi-element.com/verdant/index.htm

Then there is another possibility which was mentioned somewhere on the Terragen page and that was to use plant models in Photoshop as a post production technique for Terragen rendered scenes. Here's the site they mentioned...http://www.gardenhose.com/. The 'Architectural Trees & Textures' are the products which work with Photoshop.
 
I downloaded some of the free trees from the site that Welles posted, they are pretty good. Here is a quick look at a couple of them
 
Josh said:
There is a free plugin for Photoshop called Plants4PS
I've used it a lot; works great!
Click to expand...

Well, Josh, you're gonna need to provide more info than that.

A dogpile.com search turns up nothing. The ONLY plant plug-in for Photoshop is Verdant's plants, which are not free, nor really all that great.

Could you provide more info about this "Plants4PS"??? Who created it and a year (it's available under the "about" category in the Help menu, if you have one with the plug-in...

Thanks!!!
 
A Squarecan, welcome to the forum.
:)

The basics of painting a plant.

Find some good reference pictures.
Observe the shape and "feel" of the plant.
Use a hard brush and paint out the basic shape of the stem or trunk.
Lock the transpancy of the layer and shade the stem or trunk.
Now add the highlights.
Move on to the leaves and do the same thing.
Shade the stem again if leaves cast shadows.
Then do the same procedure for the flowers.

Sorry to be vague but the specific techniques for painting a plant will vary according to the plant you are trying to paint. Using a photo on your base layer for reference will be very helpful the first couple times you paint until it "clicks" for you. At which point you'll no longer need the photo reference.
 
Thanks Moth and every one !

I will give that a shot and see how i do, knowing me not the best, but I am learning :D

Thanks again
Keith
 
Thanks, Welles, I dl the free trees you recommended but I'm not sure where to install the psg files. Where they go?
 
Happy New Year, Joy!

If I understand what you ask, you downloaded the "FREE! Tree & Foliage Textures for Artists FREE!"? Once expanded there are just TIFF or PSD files (with alpha channels for masking) which you can open in PS and then use on separate layers when adding them to an image. As a result the files can be stored anywhere on your hard drive(s). It isn't necessary to store them in the Photoshop folder, for example.

One of the tricky parts of using those freebies is that they don't have any matching shadow images to place and transform into a proper perspective so you just have to fake it. I'm not sure if there are 'vertical shadow images' included in the CDs of Architectural Trees & Textures so I've sent an inquiry to the sales dept. Where Verdant excels is that it is a true 3D environment brought into Photoshop so the camera can be placed at any angle (360°) and the shadows are rendered properly. I'm a sucker for having 3D posibilities a part of PS via plug-ins. I purchased Aurora2, another 3D plugin by the Verdant folks which does atmospheres, sun-moon-stars, and water planes. I love it!
 
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