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Thanks! What a great website, lots of fabulous items to choose from.

Try archiproducts.com/en

The machine I use for PS is only an i3, 32-bit system with only 2gb ram, and a lousy GTS450 graphics card, but it doesn’t crash and it can handle the large 1gb+ PS files well. My machine doesn’t crash because it’s properly cooled and has the right amount wattage. So yes I agree with you, you don’t need a super computer, you just need a well built machine.

Thanks Goustan. I like Polyline – I’ll do a post about it and give the vote results soon.
Regards
Paul

Thanks Vincent. I hear you – that’s my workflow too.
Regards
Paul

Not to be picky, but you are actually looking to become LEED accredited, not certified. LEED certifies buildings and accredits people.
Having said that, I am a LEED AP and the process is fairly simple. You can do it in one step, taking two tests at once to be an AP, or in two steps, becoming a GA first and then an AP later.
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I quite disagree with the ‘machine intensive’ comments : you do *not* need to work at such an accuracy that you need an NSA super-calculator to do your renderings. This will cost you an arm in Hardware investments for no purpose.
Like others said, keep you layer number down, blending and masking to what is required, 150dpi and you’ll be just fine,…[Read more]

you got my vote 🙂

Pline by far most efficient to me (voted already), though I prefer Spline. Barely ever use line.

move your butt on Linked-In, make a website/blog/FB, update your profiles everywhere, register to relevant job boards and set your alerts for all these websites. Now, you control everything from your email.
Make sure you display experience relevant to the region you aim for.

+ what Tosh said.

Contact ALSA (Alain Landscape Studio and Associates) on my behalf.
http://www.alsa.net.cn/

Also this technique would work with photo trees but not as well. We tend to steer clear of those in plan. Also as to layer masks, you really should be only using it instead of the erase tool. It can save you a ton of time in the long run if done right.

Our office uses a single layer for trees of one type. You essentially have a blank tree shape and use the blending tools to apply texture, shadow, depth, or outline depending on your needs. Then you use the marquee tool to copy the shape around the same layer. This minimizes your file size as well as joining outline so they don’t overlap as they…[Read more]

Hi, have you tried the clone tool, I create master files of trees with shadows locked, then clone/stamp.

Obviously a different project type but tree-wise, similar enough example.  This is a tree symbol I use frequently – it is high enough resolution that when I zoom in, it’s still quite crisp.  They are all on one layer and copied around the page, shadow added to entire layer.  You could easily create 3-4 different similar layers if you wanted to var…[Read more]

Hmm…. normally when I get to PS, design is pretty much complete, so maybe i’m missing something. Moving stuff around in P’S means I have to repeat the feat in Acad when going past planning level… and I have to keep track of more moving parts. Creating a separate PDF for each type of entity (canopy trees, evg trees, bldgs, cars, etc.) is not…[Read more]

It sounds like you are going for a realistic as opposed to artistic rendering. For that style, you’re probably better off having your trees/shadows/ground plane colors and textures figured out in CAD, so you’re plotting straight from CAD instead of using photoshop. I’ve achieved very good and pretty realistic results this way…Alternately, for a…[Read more]

You’re right – the flexibility of having the vectors to move them around and edit is nice, and of course they are more crisp than rasterized objects.  I have two ways that I typically approach rendering master plan trees.  One method is to use a high-resolution plan tree image that I don’t anticipate needing to change and marquee tool it + alt…[Read more]

you need to rasterize the objects and use the marquee tool to copy to keep them on the same layer. 

I would ask if it is necessary to use vector objects for trees at the master planning level.  I find that after you reach a small enough scale with graphics (30/40 scale or smaller), there’s no need to maintain that level of clarity with individual objects.