Enhancing CAD Drawings with Photoshop (eBook)

"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.