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PHOTOSHOP FOR ARCHITECTURE

1. Setting up the interface

- Home screen and clipboard - Which will show all your recently opened projects

- Setting the sheet size and modifying the properties of the sheet

- Explain the difference between RGB and CMYK.

- Windows > layers/properties/colour and toolbar and options

- How to dock the panels on screen
- Shortcut - Windows > workspace > reset essentials

Edit > preferences > general (ctrl + k)

- In general: Check the ‘always import as smart objects option’. If someone is used to the older versions
of photoshop, they can check the legacy settings too
- In interface: Customization of the colours and sizing of the icons, text and workspace
- In workspace: Leave as default settings
- In tools: check the ‘zoom with scroll wheel’ option
- In history log: Leave as default settings
- In file handling: how to modify the auto save time
- In export: Leave as default settings
- In performance: Adjust memory usage to recommended and check the ‘use graphics processor’ option.
Adjust the history states to desired number(30-50 is optimal)
- Scratch disks: Check D drive option. If D drive is full you can also connect an external hard drive and
enable the scratch disk.
- In cursors: How to customise them
- In transparency and gamut: Leave as default settings
- In units and rulers: How to adjust units, how to show rulers in workspace (ctrl+r)
- In guides, grids and slices: How to customise the, how to show guides grids in workspace
- In plug-ins, type, 3d, tech reviews: Leave as default settings

2. Layers panel

- Create new layers. Properties of the layers, like how to change the thumbnail size, setting colours to
thumbnails
- Importance of naming layers, locking the layer, toggling the visibility of layers
- Import images and objects into photoshop x3 ways and move layers

3. Move tool and Transformations (V/Ctrl+T)

Move tool is the main command that you will be using to move various objects and images within the
layers. Transformation commands help in resizing and modifying the contents of the layer/selection.

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- Selecting layers from the layers panel and the art board, auto select
- Edit > Free transform / Transform
- To change scale and rotation
- Other transformations like distort, perspective, skew and warp
- Flip horizontal and vertical (mirroring)

- Uniform transformation by holding shift in older versions

- Non-uniform transformation by holding shift in newer versions

4. Selection tools (M,L,W)

These are the most important tools that help select regions of images and different profiles, to make
modifications in terms of colour, size, deletions etc. These can be used in combination with one another
to make accurate selections

- Marquee tool: rectangular and elliptical

options - additive, subtractive, single, intersect, feather
Hold shift to draw a square or circle

- Lasso tool: Regular, polygonal, magnetic

options - additive, subtractive, single, intersect, feather
Backspace to remove an anchor point. Hover over the first point to close your selection

- Wand tool: tolerance

options - additive, subtractive, single, intersect, feather
Object and quick selection: briefly

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5. To fill colour

- Either with paint bucket tool (G) or Edit > Fill (shft + F5).
- How to set colour for foreground and background.
- Colour picker to set colour - using the eye dropper tool (I) to sample colours from images.

View of the overall workspace

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PLAN RENDERING

Artistic render using brushes, gradients, layer styles, image adjustments

*Watch the videos to see the process

6. Layer style

Double click on layer to open layer style options from the layer panel. Some of the options in layer styles
and its properties relevant to plan rendering.
- Stroke
- Drop shadow
- Inner shadow
- Pattern overlay : How to define new patterns

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7. Defining patterns

- Loading an image which is seamless.

- Defining new patterns

- If it’s not seamless :

[1] Open texture in a new window [2] Using the crop tool, extend your workspace [3] Hold alt click and
drag to make copy of the texture [4] Ctrl + T > Right click > Flip Horizontal [5] Repeat the process for
bottom edge [6] Merge layers [7] Crop to extents of the pattern [8] Edit > Define new pattern.

Difference between smart objects and raster objects. What tools work on raster objects. Advantage
and disadvantage of raster objects. Why smart objects are better. Show how transformations and
adjustments affect raster objects. Also show how to convert Raster layer to smart object and vice
verse

8. Brush tool (B)

This is a raster tool used to create varying effects using different colours and textures. It’s useful for
creating effects like watercolour effect, smoke effect and so on.

- Settings: Types, size, hardness, opacity, roundness, angle

- Scattering, jitter, spacing
- Loading new brushes into photoshop
- Defining custom brushes

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9. Gradient tool (G)

- Settings: Types, opacity, preset gradients

- Defining custom gradients

10. Layer mask

This is a non destructive method to edit your layers. Creating a mask

helps you modulate the visibility of the layer without actually deleting
the data permanently

- Creating a layer mask, how to control the colour mask

- Properties of layer mask: Enabling/disabling, deleting, link/unlink
- Using gradients and brushes on layer mask to create effects

SECTION RENDERING

11. Adjustment layers

- Creating adjustment layers, properties of adjustment layers

- Controlling different adjustment layers
- Creating clipping mask

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 *Watch the videos to see the process

12. Grouping (Ctrl+G)

- Organizing layers panel

- Controlling similar layers together: Opacity and with adjustment layers

13. Image adjustments

- Difference between applying adjustment layers and image adjustments

- Properties of image adjustments, various shortcuts
- Colour correction and manipulation

14. Blend modes

These modes help in creating effects as they play with the opacity,
colours, darkness, lightness etc. of the particular layer and layer
immediately under it.

- Types of blend modes

- Using them for different effects : Textures, lights

Raster tools like the brush, healing brush, stamp tools, eraser tools etc
make permanent changes to the layer by altering pixel data. So you
will not be able to control the effects and values at a later point while
working on your renders

15. Healing tools (J)

- Spot healing brush tool: properties and use

- Healing brush tool: difference from spot healing, properties and use
- Patch tool: properties and use
- Content aware tool: properties and use

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16. Stamp tools (S)

- Pattern stamp tool: properties and use

- Clone stamp tool: difference from healing brush, properties and use

17. Eraser tool (E)

- Properties and use

18. Raster painting tools

- Blur tool: properties and use

- Sharpen tool: properties and use
- Smudge tool: properties and use
- Dodge tool: properties and use (O)
- Burn tool: properties and use (O)
- Sponge tool: properties and use (O)

19. Pen tool (P)

- Using the pen tool

- Filling subpath or creating a selection
- Stroking the path using brush settings / Edit > Stroke
- Adding/subtracting anchor points
- Using the convert point tool to control the curves

20. Text tool (T)

- Properties of text box: live text and static text, fonts, colour, size, warp text
- Character styles: Leading, kerning, all caps, subscript, superscript
- Paragraph styles: Justifications, margin indents

21. Shape tool (U)

For drawing basic shapes

- Types of shapes: Rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, line,

polygon
- Properties: Colour, stroke, stroke weight, other options, rounded
edges

22. Liquify

- To create water effect

- Options to control: Size, pressure, density, rate
- Reconstructing option to return to original settings

23. Filter gallery

- Different effects and their properties

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- How to apply to one layer: copy merged (Ctrl+Alt+Shft+E) and apply
- Controlling the colours for sketch effects

PERSPECTIVE RENDER

Using all the above tools

Creating lights using Outer glow, brushes, Gaussian blur
Merging textures using layer mask
Transforming textures into perspectives
Applying lens flare effect

SKETCH EFFECT

Using different types blend modes, layer adjustments and image adjustments

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