I don’t bother to keep track of how wide they are because that dimension will take care of itself. I know from the original photos how long the boards are. These boards were all the same length but different widths.Īfter I have the “boards” set up, I crop the image and save to make the single board images you’ll see in the video. I normally keep a set of raw wood images as well. By editing them in the image editor, I can more easily give them the same coloring. I generally make textures for multiple boards from a single log so I have more texture to work with. Here are images of three maple boards which I’ve combined into a single image and added some color to make them look like they are stained.
Just make sure the lighting is even and the camera is positioned square to the board.
I start with images of full length boards. In the video, I am beginning with adding the textures into SketchUp but there’s a little work to do prior to that.
In the video, I’m going to make a maple version of this pedestal table. For wood grain textures in SketchUp, I prefer to make my own. That’s fine for texture images of tiles or patterned wall paper but for wood, it’s not so wonderful because you wind up with the same features repeated which ruins the illusion. If the faces are larger than the area covered by the image, the image must be repeated. A texture is just an image file that gets applied to the faces in your model. Dummies helps everyone be more knowledgeable and confident in applying what they know. The primary one is that they aren’t very realistic. Dummies has always stood for taking on complex concepts and making them easy to understand. SketchUp includes a few different wood grain textures and they can work but they have their shortcomings. Part of that is being able to apply wood grain textures for your furniture projects.
Windows users would download, OS X users can also try to install it via MacPorts/HomeBrew or instead use a Texture Resizer for OS X version with Sips (without ImageMagick).One of the benefits of modeling your projects in SketchUp is that you can make your model look quite realistic without a lot of work. If you don’t have ImageMagick installed, you can install it from the official site. It will maybe ask you for the installation location of ImageMagick. This plugin needs ImageMagick (Windows/Linux/OS X). If desired, the plugin rotates the crop boundary so that it fits best. This way you can get rid of sky or monochrome background of texture maps. You can also crop textures to the area that is actually used in the model. Resizing can be performed either a given percentage, or optimized to a specific resolution (pixel per meter) or optimized for a specific view (using the plugin Goldilocks if it is installed). With nothing selected, it resizes all materials with selection you can choose whether you want only the selected faces to be affected (only in selection) or whether the selected materials should be resized (in the whole model). This can be useful if you want to quickly share a file that is too big because of extensive textures, or you used photos directly from the camera and want to batch-downsample them to an optimal resolution. This Plugin allows to optimize all textures in the model or selection.