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Come check out http://www.texturefly.com to get your masked images for compositing, 3d entourage, clipart,  and stock photos. We have over 50 new images, including tree images, car images, people textures and plant images. We are also adding new stuff everyday so don’t forget to register for an account so that we can update you with out product updates newsletter.

Texturefly has been a dream of mine for a long time. After working in the industry for 12 years, I realized the real shortage of masked images available to architectural illustrators and artists alike. I noticed I was seeing the same textures and images in everyone’s rendering in every state. We all know how long it takes to shoot, airbrush, cut and edit these images, and finding the time to start this endeavor hasn’t been easy. I have been cutting out my own trees, cars, and plants since 2001 and like to think that these images will give you a little more variety so that your 3d renderings or whatever you decide to use them for will be unique and your photocompositing enjoyable. Don’t forget to check back periodically. New items go up everyday! And sign up for our newsletter for email updates.

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Todays Poll: Photorealistic entourage. Time for a new image?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wanted to talk today about photo-realistic entourage. For those of you not familiar with this term, masked images, or textures or 3d compositing.  Basically, It is using photorealistic images composited over a 3d rendering or 3d view in Photoshop.

One word. IMAGECELS.  I mean seriously, talk about cornering the market. For years I have been using imagecels or realworld Imagery for my compositions. I have to say, no offense to them but its time for some new blood. Ive sat here many times thinking, I could put something like this together. I even bought the URL, texturefly.com.  I know cutting out these images is a lot of work but I think its time to get some new images out so that we don’t have to keep using the same tree, or the yellow mini, or the guy in the tie that looks like a car salesman.

I guess I want some feedback on what you would think about a new site taking over the ungrowing market of Photorealistic entourage in the architectural illustration realm.  Please post comments on this topic. I would like to know if other people feel the way I feel about our options.