Yea, that's the dvd I found, then he has a book out now too. I did what you
said, and it actually doensn't look too bad, I haven't plotted it yet
though, that's next on the list! Thanks for your help.
"Matt Stachoni" wrote in message
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:47:11 +0000, Brent Daley
wrote:
>I'm interested in the technique used to do illustrating, and rendering on
>2d
>views of lets say...a plat. I would like to be able to do something like
>the
>architects do on presentations, but do it with photoshop. I assume you use
>a
>.pdf of the plot file to do the rendering on? I found a dvd, and a book on
>amazon, but was wondering if anyone had any tips themselves, or if anyone
>knew of any good websites with some tutorials on doing it.
Is this the one you checked out?
http://www.cgarchitect.com/news/newsfeed.asp?nid=3122
Basically, yes, I plot to PDF from AutoCAD, bring the linework into
Photoshop,
and go to town. All coloring is done on multiple layers under the linework.
There are two ways to go here - you can keep the linework as shown on the
drawing, and color it up. However, I think it's much more effective to color
the
illustration with the linework not there; it's much more like a painting
without
the hard, chiseled linework.
If you have it, you can squiggle the linework and color that up for a more
hand
done look. Or *shudder* you can actually trace the plot, scan it and color
that.
In any event the basic coloring isn't hard - it how you play with light and
shadow that makes it sell, and that's a great skill to have in Photoshop.
Matt
mstachoni@comcast.net
mstachoni@bhhtait.com