Concept,Mood Boards &

Visual Presentation
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 Concept
• Showing preliminary design ideas through
drawings, sketches, illustrations.

• Verbalising the idea or

thought behind the design.

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 Check: https://hatrabbits.com/en/concept-development/
Developing Concepts

• Concept development is a process of developing ideas

to solve specified design problems.

• The concepts are developed in phases; from formless

idea to precise message in an appropriate form with
supportive visuals and content.

• Ideally, you are trying to develop a concept that

provides solutions for the design problem,
communicates effectively on multiple levels, is unique
(different and exciting), and stands out from the materials
produced by your client’s competitors. Interior Perspective - Pen and Marker Render

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 Developing Concepts

1. Position your design problem as the central idea

of your mind map.

2. Place circles containing your initial concepts for

solving the problem around the central topic.

3. Brainstorm related but non-specific concepts and

add them as subtopics for these ideas. All related
concepts are relevant. At this stage, every possible
concept is valuable and should not be judged.

4. Generate related ideas for each concept you

brainstormed in step 3 and add them as subtopics.
Repeat until you run out of ideas.

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Preliminary Conceptual Planning Sketch Loose Marker Sketch of Conceptual Floor Plan
An interior design concept is the central theme that all the design
elements are focused upon.

It exists as an idea first and is brought to reality through careful

planning.

At its best, an interior design concept is a visual theme that evokes a

specific mood by strategically using color, space, and style.

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A moodboard is a board—
physical or digital—where you
can collect imagery that inspires
you.

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Material Board

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Why Create a Moodboard?

Moodboards are great tools for planning to see

how a space will come together.

They’re used for high-level concepting and as a

way of playing with different design ideas
through visual experimentation.

Overall, the main purpose of a moodboard is to

gather inspiration and set a tone or vibe for a
design project.

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Few types of moodboard:
The first type of interior design moodboard brings
furniture and decor pieces together to help you see
how all the pieces will fit and stylistically go
together.

This is a great type of moodboard to create during the

furniture shopping or pre-furniture-shopping
process.

If you see a great piece you love, either in a store or

online, you can pull it into a moodboard to help with
inspiration overload or see how it might work with
other things you have in list.

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Few types of moodboard:

The second type of moodboard you can create is geared

more toward space planning.

With this type of board, you can bring textures, finishes, and
paint colors together to see how they’ll work with one
another in a space.

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Few types of moodboard:

The third type of moodboard is much more abstract.

It’s a collection of inspirational images that, together, evoke a

feeling or emotion that sets a vibe or literal mood for a space.

All the images don’t all have to go together, and they

can represent different things.

The main purpose here is to gather images you love

and are naturally drawn to.

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How to make mood board like a professional?

• Should showcase the intended mood/style

of the project.

• Include colour scheme, materials, furniture

pieces, fixtures, inspirational images.

• Compose it in interesting formations to

make it visually appealing and attractive.

• There is no uniform or basic layout to use,

however a well thought layout must be
applied usually through overlapping images in
a smart way.

• Make sure you source high quality images.
• Pinterest & Instagram are great platforms to
find inspiration and save references or
organize them.
You can also get out of the digital world and seek inspiration
through books and magazines. Not just interior design
publications, branch out into travel books and fashion
magazines and get inspired by design elements in all realms of
life.

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How to make mood board like a professional?
● To create a digital moodboard, you can use
programs like Keynote (for Apple users),
PowerPoint, or Google Slides.

● Canva is a free app that’s easy to use. It lets you

create moodboards with your own imagery, and
you can use it on your phone or computer.

● Photoshop is a classic, though not as many people

have access to it, and there’s a definite learning
curve as you get started with that program.

● When creating a moodboard digitally, go ahead and

save images to your desktop as you go, then
organize them into folders after an inspiration
session. From there, you can then easily drag
inspiration photos into whichever moodboard you
might be working, or simply copy and paste
photos into a document!

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How to make mood board like a professional?

● When building a mood board, start with one image

or one piece of furniture , then work your way into
the details.

● Bring in imagery of furniture pieces you love;

establish a color scheme through paint swatches
and objects; bring in architectural details and
textures, as well as rugs and flooring ideas; and
layer in specific pieces of art, lighting, and decor
that help set the mood.

● Do not stretch or squeeze the images. Maintain

correct proportions. Do not scale images down to
the point they seem irrelevant or unimportant. And remember—there really is no
wrong approach when it comes to a
moodboard.
one Making personal journey and the
is an incredibly
● Work on removing backgrounds and isolating some process can be unique to you.
objects.
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 Mood Board – Example
Apartment V/ Architres Studio
Introduction to
Photoshop

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When you open Photoshop you will have options of creating a new document
or open a previous document or image. Recent files will also show up here.
Click on new to get started. For shortcut press Ctrl +N

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You will need to setup the document as per your need.
DOCUMENT NAME

DOCUMENT SIZE
UNITS
ARTBAORDS
Click here to activate
ORIENTATION
(portrait/landscape)

BACKGROUND COLOUR

BACKGROUND CONTENTS
(white, black, background
colour, transparent, custom)

CREATE
When settings are finalized, click on create to
open the document
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 After setting up the document this is how it should look.

Make sure you save your documents and work progress.

Go to File →Save Or for shortcut press Ctrl +S

Then a saving window will open, select the destination, name your file and to save the document as a photoshop
document, keep the file type as shown below.

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 Notice the file name has changed once saved.
Here you can see the photoshop tabs. This includes the document name, its status (* means not saved), the
zoom percentage, and a small x to close the document keeping the program and the rest of the files open.

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 WAYS OF NAVIGATION AND THEIR SHORTCUTS
Move/Select tool: first tool on the left OR press onvthe keyboard

Zoom in: Alt +forward mouse scroll OR Ctrl ++

Zoom out: Alt +backward mouse scroll OR Ctrl +–
Zoom 100%: Click twice on zoom tool in the toolbar OR Ctrl +1
Zoom to fit all on screen: Ctrl +0

Move around the document: Spacebar +Mouse left button drag

Move up: scroll mouse up

Move up a whole page: press pg up key on keyboard OR Shift +Scroll up
Move down: scroll mouse down
Move down a whole page: press pg dn key on keyboard OR Shift +Scroll down
Move Sideways: hold Shift +Scroll up/down
Undo once: Ctrl +z OR edit tab →Undo
Undo several steps back: Ctrl +Alt +z OR edit tab →step backward
Redo: Shift +Ctrl +z OR edit tab →step forward

Cut: Ctrl +x OR edit tab →cut

Copy: Ctrl +c OR edit tab →copy
Paste: Ctrl +v OR edit tab →paste
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 First activate the rulers by going to view →rulers OR for shortcut press Ctrl +R.
You will get a vertical ruler on the left side and a horizontal ruler on the top to help you organize your paper.

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 Click on the ruler and drag, then place the line according to the guide you need.

For more accuracy you can go to the view menu →new guide →select the guide orientation and the position for
example vertical 2cm will give you a vertical line 2cm away from the origin.

To get rid of a guide, drag it back to the ruler.

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 SELECT TOOL
ALL TOOLS HAVE SHORTCUT LETTERS. MEANING YOU
MARQUEE TOOL
CAN ACTIVATE THEM BY PRESSING THE LETTER FOR
POLYGONAL LASSO TOOL THE TOOL YOU NEED ON THE KEYBOARD.
MAGIC WAND TOOL
CROP TOOL
YOU CAN HOVER OVER THE TOOLS TO KNOW THEIR
SHORTCUT LETTERS
EYEDROPPER TOOL
NOTE
BRUSH TOOL

ERASER TOOL
PAINT BUCKET TOOL/
GRADIENT TOOL BLUR/ SHARPEN/ SMUDGE TOOL
TOOLS THAT HAVE A SMALL TRIANGLE AT THE BOTTOM
RIGHT SIDE MEAN THERE IS A SUBMENU WITH SEVERAL
TOOLS.
TEXT TOOL
PATH SELECTION TOOL YOU CAN RIGHT CLICK ON IT TO SELECT ANOTHER TOOL AS
SHAPES TOOL SHOWN BELOW.
HAND TOOL
ZOOM TOOL

BACKGROUND COLOR
FOREGROUND COLOR

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On the bottom right side you have the artboards and layers where you can control adding, deleting, moving,
copying, and visibility. Everything you do on photoshop needs to be on its own separate layer so
objects/content can be controlled separately.

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If you cant find the layers in your document, go to windows tab on the top and make sure its activated as shown
in the image below. For a shortcut you can press F7 on your keyboard.

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 BLENDING MODE OPACITY
Controls layer transparency
LAYER LOCK
Select a layer and click on the
THUMBNAIL LAYER
lock icon to lock the layer
Shows layer content.
Double click on it to VISIBILITY
get “layer styles” click on it to switch
window. The layer the layer on or off
styles window allows
RENAME
you to set different
style for the certain Double click on the text
layer such as: shadow of the layer to rename it
ADD/COPY LAYER
To add a new layer click on this icon.
To make a copy of a certain layer,
drag that layer to this icon and you
will get a copy.

NOTE DELETE LAYER

The way layers are arranged tells us what is To delete a certain layer, make sure its
above and what is sent back. selected and then click on the delete icon.
To change layer orders you can drag them and Or you can drag the layer to the delete
release them where you want to place them. icon.
To arrange layers one step at a time, go to the layers menu →arrange →choose arrangement type.
OR you can use the shortcuts as shown below.

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In this image we can see the background is white
and the layer is switched on.

Here we see white and grey squares meaning there

is no background or the background is transparent
because the layer has been turned off .

We see this in png format images, where the

background is transparent and the foreground
is present.

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To insert an image you can drag it from where its saved into your photoshop document. Automatically a new
layer will be created for the image you place. Press enter to set the image into your document.

STEP 1 STEP 2

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After dragging the image into your document, press
enter.

Notice your layer thumbnail will look something

like this.

This means that the layer is a smart object.

In order to be able to edit it you will have to right

click on the layer and click on rasterize layer so it
becomes editable. Then your layer thumbnail will
look like this.

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Another way to insert images into your document is to go file tab →open →find the image and open it, it will
open in its own document →go over the image and click and drag it to the tab of the document you want to
insert it and release the mouse when you are over the artboard.

STEP 1 STEP 3

STEP 2 STEP 4

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To freely transform (scale, rotate, skew, distort
perspective, warp, flip) anything in Photoshop,
make sure you are on the correct layer and press
Ctrl +T.

This will activate the boundary as shown in

the example on the right.

You can scale the object up and down, and even

rotate. To access more options, right click on
the image/object and choose the option you
need.

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To remove the background of your image first make sure you are on the correct layer. Then grab the
magic wand tool from the tool set on the left. If you can’t find it, right click on the fourth tool and select
it from the small menu. Use this tool to click on the background, you will get a selection around a
certain area, then press the delete button on your keyboard.

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 For smaller areas or finer details that a magic wand tool can’t select, you can use the polygonal
lasso
tool. It’s the third tool. If you can’t find it, right click on the third tool and select it from the menu.

This tool allows to draw a free selection around the finest details to get rid of all the areas you want.
Draw around the part you want to delete and then press the delete button on the keyboard.

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Another way for selection is using these tools. You can right click on the second icon in the toolbar to
get more tools from the menu as shown.
For shortcut, you can press m on your
keyboard.
Using these tools, you can draw around the areas that you want to delete. You will get a selection
outline then click on the delete button on the keyboard.

Repeat as necessary to get all the parts.

When you’re done press Ctrl +d to make the selection go away.

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To enhance or adjust any image, make sure you
are on the correct image layer. Then go to the
image menu and select what you need to do.

For further adjustments, go to image menu then

open the adjustments sub-menu.

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 To add certain styles to any content on a layer, double click on the layer thumbnail, you will get this
Layer Style window.

Select the style you want to apply on the left side, make sure you check the box and then press on the
name to open the options menu on the right.

To see direct changes in your document check the preview box on the right.

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 Type tool, or the text tool, allows you to write anything horizontally or vertically.
When activated works similar to word with font types, sizes and even formatting styles.

FONT STYLE ANTI-ALIASING

(narrow, regular, italic, (sharp, crisp,
TEXT TOOL FONT bold, etc.) FONT SIZE strong, smooth) FONT COLOUR

TEXT ORIENTATION WARP TEXT

(left, center, right)

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 To use the type tool, you can find it in the toolbar
menu on the left side or for shortcut press T on
your keyboard.

Click on the artboard to activate the cursor and start

typing.
Notice a separate layer has been created for the text
once you start typing.

After placing the cursor, start typing and when done

press the tick mark on the top options bar.

Use the options bar to adjust your text style, font, size
and colour.

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 Type mask tool, allows to type on any image as a mask that can be moved to take
the pattern of a certain area through the text as shown below.
STEP 1 STEP 2

STEP 3 STEP
4

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Shapes tool, allows you to draw shapes depending on the option you select
from the menu on the right.

After selecting the shape, click on your artboard and insert the dimensions
as per your need (right click on the dimension to change the unit). Another
way is you can instantly drag and draw the shape on the artboard freely.

Automatically the shape will be placed in its own separate layer.

After drawing a shape you will get a side and top menus to manipulate and
make changes as per your need.

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 Align Panel

Go to the select tool, select several images or objects from your artboard that you want to align, choose the
alignment type you want to apply from the top options

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If some of the options are not showing by default in your photoshop interface, go to windows menu →
select the palette or tray you want to activate

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 To save your document as PDF, JPEG, PNG

Got o File →Save as →in the “save as type” select the document type you want
to save →then click on save

PDF JPEG PNG

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