Plan view photo trees?

Is there a good source for photos of trees in plan view? I'd like to use some in a site plan I'm working on that's using photo textures, but the ones I've found online haven't been all that impressive. Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Gabino Carballo on June 9, 2012 at 3:19pm

Why don't you just "make" them?

It is fairly easy. I developed my own photoshop technique back in 1998 and a few years later the same office (and a few others people have moved too) were using it to produce plans.

And it was not rocket science, I am sure it was quite easy to do because my PS technique was rubbish!

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Permalink Reply by G. Ryan Smith on June 9, 2012 at 5:13pm

oh i see how you are. you "put in effort."

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Permalink Reply by Gabino Carballo on June 11, 2012 at 2:18pm

Jeeezz, so that was my problem all along...

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Permalink Reply by John.Dallinga on June 28, 2012 at 2:34pm

I'm interested nonetheless in your process since I end up doing a lot of "from scratch" trees with random brushes, etc.

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Permalink Reply by David Barbarash on June 12, 2012 at 8:56am

Here are a pair of links:

ImageCELS

Dosch

I had a few others but am drawing a blank off the top of my head... I'll get back with more if I can.

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Permalink Reply by Phil Moorehead on June 12, 2012 at 11:20am

Get the best Google or Bing (or Apple?) maps aerial view of a forest canopy you can find, open it in Photoshop, and clone stamp it into a simple plan view tree symbol. In lieu of a pilfered forest canopy swatch, you could use a picture of random foliage or something else green(?) and mottled, then scale the texture appropriately. It will take a bit of finesse to make it look decent, but that's basically it.

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Permalink Reply by Aiyou Zhu on June 19, 2012 at 1:54pm

that is really cool, i should try that!

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Permalink Reply by Wyatt Thompson, PLA on June 12, 2012 at 2:31pm

Do you have a decent sketchup library and a rendering program? Take your best trees and render them in plan view. Quick and easy.

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Permalink Reply by Phillip Zawarus on June 23, 2012 at 1:27pm

I agree with Wyatt. I prefer using sketchup models for plan and perspective views. The advantage of using 3D trees from sketchup is that you can change the angle for different perspectives of the same tree for a quick collection of entourage.

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Permalink Reply by stewart mcsherry on June 15, 2012 at 1:49pm

Hi all the plants on www.xfrog.com have plan view and perspective renders

You can buy individual plant species or libraries. you get also 3d models in any format, which

is perhaps overkill for what you want, but... and OH i nearly forgot, there are tons of free samples on the website here http://xfrog.com/130-free-xfrogplants-now-available/