Interior design AI tutorial: SketchUp to render and edits by Artikki

Kritika, who runs the Artikki channel, is an interior designer who usually models in SketchUp and renders for hours. In this short tutorial she shows how she now gets from an untextured SketchUp screenshot to a finished interior image, then tours the editing tools she uses most for interiors. It is a quick, practical overview if you design rooms and want to see each tool used on a real interior example.

What you'll see

1. A tour of the interface and the create tools available at the time.
2. 3D Model to Render from a raw SketchUp kitchen screenshot, using a realistic style, an image strength setting and a short prompt for a minimal white kitchen.
3. Image to Render on a textured SketchUp bedroom, adjusting color and shape strength and asking for a boho style.
4. Render Variation to see the same scene by season, time of day, rain or as a drawing.
5. Select and Modify with the wand tool to swap a green bar floor for wood.
6. Remove Objects with a polygon lasso to take wall art out of a bedroom, with up to four results at once.
7. Upscale at 2x or 4x on a noisy image, plus the option that only fixes people (today's Fix People).
8. Virtual Staging to furnish an empty living room from a one-line prompt.
9. A brief mention of placing a building into a Google Maps screenshot, then the sketch-in-context tool, where she draws a counter with a pen and prompts it into a photo.

Takeaways

• She found the kitchen render quick and close to what she described, even from a model with no materials.
• She liked how fast the wand selection was, saying it took under a minute to mark the floor.
• She notes that virtual staging works best with images of at least 500 pixels.
• She sees the upscale as a way to clean noisy walls and blurry lines before presenting.
• Her overall point is that testing materials and ideas becomes quick enough to do during design, not only at the end.

Try it yourself

Start with 3D Model to Render or Image to Render on your own SketchUp view, then use Select and Modify and Upscale to refine it. For empty rooms, Virtual Staging is the direct route.

Recorded with an earlier version of Rendair, so some screens and app names look different today.