Infinite Skills' "Photoshop for Architects Tutorial" Specialized Training in Tools and Techniques for Project …

(PRWEB) October 02, 2013

Software training firm Infinite Skills this week released its "Photoshop for Architects Tutorial," a targeted course teaching Photoshop tools and techniques useful in project visualization and an AutoCAD workflow.

Photoshop is the world's most popular digital image editor, with a vast amount of tools and features for image manipulation including basic editing tools, restoration, and 3D graphics creation.

Infinite Skills' "Photoshop for Architects Tutorial" teaches a selection of Photoshop features that will help architects, engineers, and builders use Photoshop to creatively express their ideas and visualize possibilities with building projects.

Photoshop for Architects Tutorial - DVD

Course author Scott Onstott holds a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of California at Berkeley and has spent more than a decade creating tutorials and writing books for architects and engineers. He has written a popular book entitled "Enhancing Architectural Models and Drawings in Photoshop" along with a book on Photoshop CS6 fundamentals. Olstott also writes a column for Photoshop User Magazine.

Olstott begins with a look at some fundamentals Photoshop tools helpful with project visualization. He explains some of the technical concepts underlying Photoshop such as bits, bit maps, channels, bit depth, and color modes, that make many of its advanced editing capabilities possible. The chapter also covers some basic tools useful in creating perspective, like cropping, scaling, and trimming.

Olstott then takes an in-depth look at photo development, beginning with using keywords organize image files, and moving on to explore the development tools in Photoshop's Camera Raw digital darkroom module.

As the course continues, he explores areas like non-destructive editing tools and techniques, merging multiple exposures and toning, which can help add realism and detail to images, before moving on to explain how to use Photoshop to produce digital illustrations that can be used in creating 3D models.

Additional chapters cover extracting objects from photos, enhancing 2D drawings, performing edits like retouching, masking, and replacement, which actually alter the image content, and finally a chapter on working with Photoshop images for creating camera angles and 3D cross-sections.

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