Applying landscaping to a house photo

[Allan Chesney]

Following a question on the Forum about whether it was possible to apply a landscape to a photo, I decided to try it out properly.  Below is the original photo of our house before we moved in, that was inserted into TFP as a photoboard, followed by 3 examples of landscaping applied in front of the photo.  In case it will help anyone else I have posted some of the findings I made doing this in the Tips and Tricks section (http://forums.turbofloorplan.com/index.php/topic,772.0.html)
It could certainly be used this way to give someone an idea how proposed landscaping could look.

Allan

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Allen.

Very nice - great examples!  I am curious what your original camera Height is.  I assume you would have to match that same height in the program?  Thanks.

Randy

[Allan Chesney]

Hi Randy,

I always have the camera height in the program set to eye height and the original photo would have been the same although there is a very slight rise in front of the house.

The best thing is just to move the camera around so that it looks right. For instance, because the front door is set back, the camera had to be directly in front of the door or the wall at right angles to the door did not look right. You will get the same effect if you could see the ceiling of the veranda. Unless you are dealing with a significant slope then just go for eye height which would usually be your photo height.

Allan.