Tim Zhang

For cropping, always find images with a clear background like a sky. When you crop them in Photoshop, use “Select” and the “Color Range”, then eyedrop the color in the background. Play around with the fuzziness for level of selection. You should also duplicate the image layer and play around with the level to increase contrast, that way you can…[Read more]

You can crop plants from images, convert to PNG, and then import into sketchup. After you render them they look very photorealistic since they are.. realistic photographs. Most importantly, they are very low polygon.

Example here:

http://www.timzhang.net/portfolio/ar2.jpg

There are also companies selling 3d blocks. However, you will need a…[Read more]

I did my portfolio in Photoshop. I saved them to 150 pix/inch, in case they zoom into the pages. I then saved them as Jpegs. On computer it’s rather clear since our monitors display 72 dpi. Each of my files come out to around 750kb. I’m pretty sure I’m doing the wrong way since I shouldn’t even be doing page layouts in Photoshop at first place,…[Read more]

I agree, same with driving luxury cars, this contractor I freelanced for had a Mercedes, but he drives his toyota to meet with clients so they don’t think he’s ripping them off.

You can also try Blurb

http://www.scribd.com/

http://carbonmade.com/

I like issuu the best because it’s in booklet format so you can have a feel of your portfolio before you print it out. It’s easy to use too, just upload a pdf and ur done.

the collaborative west, a firm in san clemente

I’m barely getting by freelancing for different firms. When I got out of college I was unhappy about my profession for a while because most of my friends in other fields are making 5k+ a month right out of college. Now I’m just happy to be in the profession doing what I like.

I like the sketch pad theme! Only thing is that the text font is a little hard to read.

It’s just missing “miscellaneous” category which will display logo design, etc. Everything else is done

the city is big on osmanthus trees, last year they planted 1000 of them along certain streets.

Ficus microcarpa is quite common too. Various pine trees do well too, but be careful about using them in certain areas because chinese tend to associate those with graveyard.. probably because they use them to screen the graveyards from public.

if you…[Read more]

it’s done overall, just missing one category of content

http://www.timzhang.net

finally somewhat finished the website

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/Pages/Product/WhatIs.aspx

http://www.landcraftstudio.com/

this is what i have so far, new to website making… does it bug for anyone? when you hover ur mouse over the grassy part toward the bottom?

hm landplanner.. I meant to respond to artie petroni’s post about surprise visits to firms. How am I irrelevant? This is a discussion board afterall.. would you rather have everyone reply “no, not hiring”.