I'm really excited about one of the latest and greatest SketchUp books. It's called Rendering in SkechUp by Daniel Tal...and comes in at a whopping 640 pages. That is a lot of incredible info from one of the masters. And unbelievably, it's under $30 at Amazon. At that price, it needs to be in your library, if only to browse at the lovely pictures.

Feel overwhelmed? As usual, I'll be distilling the best tips from it for my rendering classes.

Great review at http://land8.com/profiles/blogs/book-review-rendering-in-sketchup-by-daniel-tal

Order the book at http://www.amazon.com/Rendering-SketchUp-Presentation-Architecture-Landscape/dp/047064219X

Olioboard Design Site

Looking at an interesting new site to make a quick design board of your plan called Olioboard.    https://olioboard.com/

It doesn't allow you to put your products choices in a perspective scene, like SketchUp does, but it does allow you to drag real products from their catalogs (including big retailers like Crate and Barrel, Dwell, etc) or drag images from other websites into a one-point perspective space.

You can use a scene of your real project that you've created in SketchUp as a backdrop. Although it's not terribly intuitive, if you're in the "Design a Room" tab, you can click on the "my items" tab, and then upload the image as your scene to work with.

Great Free Online Classes at Creative Live

Do you know about Creative Live?  They offer online classes for creative folks.  If you catch them on release, they're also free and have some great content.  They do have a lot of photography classes, but look past those for some great marketing / business / digital tool classes also.  I'm looking forward to an upcoming Photoshop class in August.

 Check it out: http://www.creativelive.com/courses/painting-photoshop-jack-davis

SketchUp Sage

SketchUp Sage 

This is one of the premier SketchUp sites which has hundreds of posts, tips, lessons, help forumns, and links to everything you need to know. I'm linking to the Tips and Tricks page on the site...which could keep you delighted for hours, but check out all the tabs for great information. 

Find it at https://sites.google.com/site/sketchupsage/tips-tricks

Fine Woodworking SketchUp Blog

Great SketchUp Blog and Tutorials on the Fine Woodworking Site

I know...you're probably not a woodworker, but these tutorials contain an amazing bunch of tips and tools. And, you never know when you might want to custom design a piece of ...See More

New Small Group SketchUp Classes this summer

New for this summer is small group classes...and I mean very small. Class size is limited to 4 students per class...so you'll get lots of personal attention. Check out my website at http://www.seeddd.com/classes for all the details.

Classes - Diane Dieterich Design - Computer Generated Architectural Renderings

www.seeddd.com

The beginning classes offer a thorough background in Basic SketchUp Tools and Techniques, so that students can begin to immediately utilize SketchUp in their workflow.

See3D featured in June Master Builder's Magazine

I'm excited to be profiled in June's issue of the Master Builder magazine...even though it was finally just released this week. You can link to the article at:http://www.masterbuildersinfo.com/library/docs/news/Publications/MBMag/MBMag_20...See More