Enhancing CAD Drawings with Photoshop

Scott Onstott

345 pages, parution le 25/01/2005

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Bring Your CAD Drawings to Life Using Artistic Photoshop Techniques

Most architects find that traditional CAD drawings are not the ideal medium for sharing their visions with clients. For an untrained eye, it's difficult to imagine a complex design by simply viewing a line drawing. Fortunately, you can use Adobe Photoshop to enliven CAD drawings and improve graphical communications.

Enhancing CAD Drawings with Photoshop is the first book to demonstrate how you can use Photoshop to transform CAD drawings into dynamic, attractive presentational pieces that speak to everyone. First, you'll master the basic Photoshop concepts and tools. Then you delve into sophisticated illustrating and compositing techniques. Practical tutorials lead you step-by-step through each process, and a full-color insert featuring before-and-after images is certain to inspire you with ideas and solutions. While appealing to the artist in you, this unique book will empower you to win bids and wow clients.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

Plan your work flow to ensure consistent color printing
Work in the digital darkroom and hone your retouching skills
Extract entourage objects from photographs and use them in architectural illustrations, renderings, plans, and elevations
Enhance your line drawings with color, pattern, gradient, transparency, and shadows
Dress up basic elevations using Photoshop's layer style effects, reflection and refraction, and entourage
Transfer 3D objects from Autodesk VIZ into image layers in Photoshop
Make objects look realistic using layers and clipping groups
Transform 3D models into pencil sketches, watercolors, and paintings
Share your digital work with your clients via prints, e-mail, the Web, and slideshows
Protect and catalog your intellectual property

Featured on the CD

The companion CD features sample files, scripts, and videos that illustrate important techniques from each chapter. You'll also find valuable software, including AutoLISP and MAXScript utilities, the free Acrobat Reader, and a trial version of Photoshop CS.

L'auteur - Scott Onstott

Scott Onstott is an architectural software guru who publishes video courses on VIZ, AutoCAD, and other software. He has contributed to more than a dozen Sybex books and created numerous visualizations for prominent architectural, engineering, and construction firms.

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Sommaire

The Basics
Working with Color
Digital Darkroom Skills
You and Your Entourage
Presenting Plans
Elevating the Elevation
Creative Compositing
Illustrating Architecture
Showing Work to Your Clients

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Sybex
Auteur(s)	Scott Onstott
Parution	25/01/2005
Nb. de pages	345
Format	19 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	681g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780782143867
ISBN13	978-0-7821-4386-7