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  1. Switzerland: DVDarchitecture http://www.dvdarch.ch Studio Gabor Gyenese www.gyga.ch
  2. Although, our main business is Archviz. we also do furniture modeling and rendering. You can checkout some of our examples here: https://www.dvdarch.ch/produktvisualisierung/ . If you have a high volume, we can guarantee you a good price :-) If you are interested you can PM me.
  3. I can only second this. 72dpi is definitelly enough, but I still suggest to upscale it with photoshop to 150 or even 300dpi this way there wont be any pixels visible when you look closely and it only takes 2 seconds to do. We tried this at a printshop once because a client didnt quite believe it. We rendered at 72dpi and increased it to 150 dpi and then printed a test run. Even at a close viewing distance of 1 meter or so the image looked nice and crisp.
  4. Some Input to the original Question. We tried a lot of things and I can tell you how well each worked. 1. Sending a postcard with some references to all architects and real estate offices in the area -We sent out about 10 000 postcards. We made sure they were well designed and had a "nobel" feel to them. We chose A5 postcards because it was the cheapest medium to send through mail. Result: This managed to give us our first clients so you could call it a success. However, it was connected with a high pricetag and a lot of work finding all the adresses. 2. Calling and Meeting possible clients -We called a lot of potential clients and if possible scheduled meetings. Result: Eventhough, I had high hopes for this method, this didnt work out well for us. In most cases we couldnt make it past the receptionist and got rejected as "spam" (especially when you just started a company this can be very depressing). Still we managed to have some meetings. For some reason, though, we got almost no clients even out of the meetings. This may work for some, but for us it really didnt work out. 3. Random Email - Sending a Sh*** load of mails to any email address of companies and people who could be remotely interested in your service. I know this isnt a good way to go, and I am not proud of it, but when there are no clients youll be willing to try anything. Result: nothing. No clients only some replies asking to be taken off our mailing list... 4. Targeted Emailing -We searched through relevant websites and tried to find the relevant people and their email (you would be surprised how many companies have their direct emails online). I then tried to introduce myself as a person while applying to a writing style more like a job application than an advertisement. Talking about how archviz is my passion and so on. I reused some parts of the same mail over and over (to reduce work), but still always added some customized intro (to make the email more personal to the target person). Result: Even though this was a lot of work for each email (compared to spamming) the feedback was great. We got many new projects and many more clients who replied that that they will ask us for a price offer once they have a project. 5.Google and Adwords -Adwords is a great way to get positioned well on Google but it has a high pricetag. It`s best you research SEO (get lots of backlinks, use https, and optimize your website to load fast) a little and manage to get a good position at google. Even though we are on the first page of google now, we still use Adwords to strengthen our position even more. Result: We get a slow, but constant flow from this. Adwords is worth it in our case, especially if you include follow up projects. 6. Advertisement in an architecture magazine Result: big waste of money. not a single client despite a large and visible advertisement. So those are basically all the things we tried. I believe, what may be successful may vary a lot depending on your location and your type business. Generally I suggest you use a targeted approach so that you get to the right people directly. Additionally, stay active online, write news, blog posts about new projects, write in forums like CGarchitect and so on. This gives you a great online presence and gives new clients as well as old ones a chance to stay up to date on your work. Most important of all, however, is that you do a good job at what you do. The best advertisement is being recommended from old clients.
  5. Panotour will export a package that you can upload to your webserver. All that you have to do afterwards is to go to wordpress and Link to the html file and it should run. This was done the same way: https://www.dvdarch.ch/360/360.html You can let me know if you need more help with that, but it is pretty simple and you dont need to know any coding.
  6. Although, I joined CGarchitects some time ago, I only now start to have some time to participate in the Forum. Looking forward to it. -Damian
  7. After cutting out the trees with the "Wand" tool or "Color Selection" and improving the resulting mask with "Refine Mask" I often play with the highlights/shadows to bring the the white silhouette to the same brightness as the background. It`s kind of cheating, but you would be surprised how well it works. Good Luck -Damian http://www.dvdarch.ch
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