Future Canadian Skylines - Page 39

caltrane74 · #**761** Posted **Apr 25, 2011, 11:45 PM**

That video is the height of craptastic. Good Lord!

Traynor · #**762** Posted **Apr 26, 2011, 5:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

Traynor, you would absolutely love some of the new features on Photoshop... this one is incredible:

Hey Leftcoaster, after you posted this tutorial video about CS5 and the Content Aware fill feature, it got me thinking. So, I got a hold of PS CS5 and have started exploring it

I had the CS3 version for some time, but I hardly knew how to use it. I will try and learn more about the CS5 version now that I have it.

As far as the Content Aware fill, I tried it and it kind of works and kind of doesn't when it comes to removing skyscrapers.

What Photoshop lacks is my knowledge of what is behind the object you are removing and how it should look. (I practically know every square inch of Toronto) PS just clones from the surrounding area automatically and some of the results were funny in a skyline shot I chose. It replicated the whole Bloor and Yonge skyline in an area where I removed a building to the right.

It is cool for simple pictures with simple, generic, repetitive backgrounds (like a bike leaning on a brick wall and you want to remove the bike), but complex images like skylines and specific buildings is a whole other matter. So far, I think it's still faster and easier the old fashioned way that I do it in Paint, because I still have to go back and draw in the missing information anyway.

Thanks for the heads-up about CS5. I'll keep plugging away at it and maybe I can get using it in the future.

steveve · #**763** Posted **Apr 27, 2011, 7:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Traynor

I would love to go to Montreal. It's only an hour and a half away for me but I'd be too busy clubbing and partying to bother to take some pics.

Besides, my ability to render Toronto is based on the fact that I know every square inch of it intimately. I am completely unfamiliar with Montreal.

wait wut?!?! you're non-torontonian? what city are you in? for some reason i always assumed you're in to cause those epic renders!

Innsertnamehere · #**764** Posted **Apr 27, 2011, 7:38 PM**

i think he is ottawa, as that is about 1.5 hours from montreal...

Traynor · #**765** Posted **Apr 27, 2011, 9:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by steveve

wait wut?!?! you're non-torontonian? what city are you in? for some reason i always assumed you're in to cause those epic renders!

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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

i think he is ottawa, as that is about 1.5 hours from montreal...

Hey, Hey...I am not Barack Obama... I don't have to produce my birth certificate, do I?

Steveve, I was born at Scarborough General Hospital in the Township of Scarborough Ontario, in June of 1963. Yes it was so long ago that it was before the Mega-City, before Sacrborough was a city, before it was even a borough. It was still called a Township. However, it was part of Metropolitan Toronto since 1954.

I grew up in North York and later lived downtown for over 20 years. As Innsertnamehere stated, I now live in Ottawa. My job moved me here a few years ago.

I am a Torontonian through and through. I'll take on anyone that tries to say I am not!

caltrane74 · #**766** Posted **Apr 27, 2011, 9:16 PM**

I still have my birth certificate... or I may have lost it.

who cares... don't need it for anything.

lol!

steveve · #**767** Posted **Apr 28, 2011, 12:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by Traynor

Hey, Hey...I am not Barack Obama... I don't have to produce my birth certificate, do I?

LOL!

Larch · #**768** Posted **May 21, 2011, 2:00 PM**

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caltrane74 · #**769** Posted **May 21, 2011, 2:34 PM**

Very interesting glimpse into your mind.

logan5 · #**770** Posted **May 22, 2011, 12:08 AM**

No Eiffel Tower?

Larch · #**771** Posted **May 22, 2011, 12:56 AM**

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Dylan Leblanc · #**772** Posted **Jun 18, 2011, 8:34 AM**

Here's a still from a video showing Waterpark Place 3. Ice looks crazy tall!

http://www.arcestra.com/fileDl/fetch...20258974536474 (34 MB MP4)

Traynor · #**773** Posted **Jun 18, 2011, 4:22 PM**

^ OK That is just wrong!!!

Waterpark III has no thematic ties to phases I and II. Architecturally it could be a whole other development.

I was hoping for something like Cesar Pelli's Three World Financial Center, in both design and scale.

(Three World Financial Center, center tower in image. Image from Wikipedia article found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Financial_Center )

yaletown_fella · #**774** Posted **Jun 18, 2011, 5:40 PM**

Uggh more cheapest psf garbage

steveve · #**775** Posted **Jun 19, 2011, 2:03 AM**

that is a sweet video! (just to see all the projects around it!)
as for the design, it is mediocre, it's bulky, but bulky kinda fits with the buildings just south of it.

I think i'd rather see 2 towers on that lot

and just looking at that photo of lower manhattan, i wish this was a Goldman Sachs WHQ.

EDIT:
I even saw L tower, Aura, and 1 bloor in that video! sweet! (look closely when the show the views from the offices)