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Importing wood images into Kerky? White lacquer?
Post by Stephan P on May 12^th, 2014, 7:56pm

Hi guys,
I'm trying to learn how I can get better matching wood samples to select from when using Kerkythea. Is this something relatively easy to do for a non-computer wiz?

Also, I can't seem to find a nice way of doing white or colored lacquered cabinets in Kerky. I have done them by selecting plastic and then choosing an off white color but it makes for a really poor rendering.

I'm losing jobs because the quality of my renderings isn't as good as the next guys and am looking at different ideas to try and improve my renderings.

Re: Importing wood images into Kerky? White lacque
Post by R. Manning Jr. Millworks on May 13^th, 2014, 1:41pm

I do it the same way and I think it comes out OK.
This is a rendering for a bath cab we just built.
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Re: Importing wood images into Kerky? White lacque
Post by Stephan P on May 13^th, 2014, 5:57pm

Yours looks really good. I'd be happy to achieve that. My renderings look washed out by comparison. Here is a quick example I drew up to show what I mean. Do you think it has to do with not putting in any lighting? If so, do you add the lighting in cab planner or kerky?
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Re: Importing wood images into Kerky? White lacque
Post by R. Manning Jr. Millworks on May 14^th, 2014, 07:01am

I use the lights in cabinet planner.
All I did was read what was on the cabinet planner web site about Kerky and kind of learn as I go.
Here is one from a few years ago
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Re: Importing wood images into Kerky? White lacque
Post by Stephan P on May 14^th, 2014, 4:11pm

Thanks for sticking with me while I figure this out. The lighting options really help it come alive. Here's where I've managed to get it so far.
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Re: Importing wood images into Kerky? White lacque
Post by Stephan P on May 14^th, 2014, 4:14pm

That white bar on the left of the lazy susan base is a gap in the cabinet between the case gable and the front door. Haven't figured out how to make it go away. Moderator Rob, do you have any ideas?

Re: Importing wood images into Kerky? White lacque
Post by Rob on May 14^th, 2014, 7:11pm

I just uploaded a new update which will fix the gap on the lazy susan.

Re: Importing wood images into Kerky? White lacque
Post by Stephan P on May 14^th, 2014, 7:27pm

Thanks Rob for fixing that for us.

Re: Importing wood images into Kerky? White lacque
Post by snookhooked on Jul 12^th, 2014, 10:27am

How are you guys able to save the picture from the Kerspy program. I have saved image before but couldn't find them to print out, Thanks

Re: Importing wood images into Kerky? White lacque
Post by Stephan P on Jul 12^th, 2014, 2:11pm

Mine get saved in the object files folder