For architects who seek better ways to communicate their vision, here is the first book that explains how to transform CAD drawings into beautiful presentational pieces using Photoshop. First you’ll learn the basic Photoshop skills, then find out how to add real-world textures (i.e. granite countertops), include "entourage" (i.e. trees and people), create realistic lighting effects and reflections, and even develop mood using antique or painterly effects. All discussions are reinforced by real-world tutorials and apply to any CAD program that outputs the.dwg file format. The CD features a Photoshop demo, sample scripts, utilities, and tutorial videos. The 16-page color insert highlights inspirational before-and-after images.

Architect Scott Onstott is a consultant, former university CAD professor, and a long-time Sybex contributor in authoring and technical editing roles. He most recently co-authored our Mastering VIZ 2006 book. He also publishes CAD-related video learning courses, including Photoshop for Architects.

"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.

’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". This work helps you to 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; and, protect and catalog your intellectual property.

"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

Architect Scott Onstott is a consultant, former university CAD professor, and a long?time Sybex contributor in authoring and technical editing roles. He most recently co?authored our Mastering VIZ 2006 book. He also publishes CAD?related video learning courses, including Photoshop for Architects.

"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

"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

Excellent Resource
I’m teaching a course on Architectural Digital Illustration and found this book to be an excellent text book material.

Excellent reference book
I’ve only had this book for a couple of hours now, but looking through it I can clearly see that it is a very useful book. I purchased this book to aid me in my visualisations for my architecture degree. With a working knowledge of autocad and photoshop I was looking for a book which helped to refine the skills I already had.

This book has clear and consise tutorials, alot of which will be things that most degree students will know already. That said there is always room for improvement and the tutorials give a refinement to the processes I was already using.

This book would be perfect for a beginner (though some working knowledge of both cad and photoshop would be required)so anyone looking to learn photoshop this book is probably step 2 and I would look for a photoshop specific guide. Additionally this book is extremely useful for those wishing to polish their skills.

The Cd which complements this book seems to be very informative and another valuble tool for those who are less experienced.

My only complaint is the level of finish. The floor plans, elevations etc presented in this book are not to the polished standard that most design courses would require for a high grade portfolio. Some more depth into adding sleeker graphics/finishes would have been nice but I can accept that this is probably intended as an introduction to visualisation.

The tutorials are well structured, teaching you of a process rather than end result, this leaves alot of scope for personal development of skills.

This book is heavily architecture focused but could be used for other design applications as the methods and tools are universal.

I would highly recommend this book for anyone doing architecture or other design based work.

Useful, but ...
First of all, if your life involves CAD and Photoshop, you should probably buy this book: It’s very useful. Part of the reason it’s useful is because there are not a lot books on this subject.

One of the greatest features about this book is its greatest flaw: the enclosed LISP program that turns AutoCad layers into Photoshop layers. What promise that has! It works great with the tiny 8.5 x11 drawings on the enclosed disc. But when you try to use that with a real drawing, say in 36" by 24" format, the drawing crashes.

Great tips
I thought I knew Photoshop but I was wrong. I borrowed this book from the library but it was so good I decided to buy it.

Excellant book
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.