Focus Week 3 - CAD/Photoshop

CAD and Photoshop tutorial

During this week, I was learning how to make plans on AutoCAD which was to be rendered in Photoshop.

The first step was make a new layout on AutoCAD to place a the plan onto

Once this has been set up, 'print' using CutePDF setting the scale to 1:1.

A view port is then made to centre the plan onto the page. When scaling, in the command bar, type Z ENTER, S ENTER followed by desired scale in the format of 1/200 ENTER.

Once this has been done, the image can be opened as a PDF on Photoshope. Resolution should be set to 150 dpi, and the required page size should be set.

The PDF is now up on Photoshop and is ready to be rendered. Specific areas were selected and 'masked' with a picture or effect.

This red area selected it to be masked with a paving effect.

The process is repeated for different elements such as trees, grass and planting. Special effects can be added to improve the quality of the layers. For example, the trees were given a shaded effect as seen above.

Finally the unneeded surrounding, like the buildings were deleted and what as left was given a different shade. this effect highlights the landscape within.

Final piece