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Enhancing CAD Drawings with Photoshop
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by Scott Onstott
Sales Rank: 21433
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List Price: $44.99
$29.69
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Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Sybex January 21, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0782143865
ISBN-13: 978-0782143867
Product Dimensions:
8.8 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Product Description
"If you're an architect looking to get the most out of Photoshop, look no further! Enhancing CAD Drawings with Photoshop is a killer book."
—George Omura, Author, Mastering AutoCAD 2005 and AutoCAD LT 2005
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
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Back Cover Copy
"If you're an architect looking to get the most out of Photoshop, look no further! Enhancing CAD Drawings with Photoshop is a killer book."
George Omura, Author, Mastering AutoCAD 2005 and AutoCAD LT 2005
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
Customer Reviews & Comments
I am very very pleased with this book. It is exactly what I have been looking for. I first purchased a DVD by the same author called *Photoshop for Architects* which I felt was so well done that I decided to buy the book. Having both is a real asset for they work in unison. Buying the book and the DVD, in my opinion, is a necessity. Each stands alone but they compliment each other. The DVD provides comprehensive coverage without going into every small detail. The book parallels the same information on the DVD but goes into greater detail. I am Architecturally educated but with limited computer experience and I have only recently purchased a first ADOBE product which is ADOBE CS. I imagine this book would be an excellent tool for anyone new to PS no matter what the intended use of PS will eventually be. The book starts with some general, but relevant, tech info without scientific overload. It step by step moves one through a real project from beginning to end so you learn most of the tools, how to set things up, various ways of accomplishing the same things and what to do in finishing out a project. I consider the presentation style to be superb for learning. I am currently working my way through a real project and learning a lot which has not easily come together for me, in total, when reading other books which explain how to do this or that little thing but seem unrelated, in a comprehensive way, to a total project of substance. Working from and by referencing back to the CD that comes with the book and the separately available DVD, I feel that I have more quickly learned and also taken an interest in certain important basics. I have learned many tools very quickly, discovered alternate ways of doing things (plus reason why) which causes me to realize the value of investigating multiple PS capabilities, reasons for things needing to be done in specific ways and the limitations of doing things in cetain ways etc. I like the fact that I can use the book and DVD to step through a real project from beginning to completion. This book and DVD is the best and most enjoyable learning tool I have found for learning PS and I have looked at many and purchased all from Adobe that relate to each part of Adobe CS. What this author offers is exactly what we have been looking for and I am hoping he will be creating similar documents for Adobe Illustrator and other Adobe products (for Architects) as our interest and abilities develop. If anything better exist I sure would like to know what it is.
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Enhancing CAD Drawings with Photoshop
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