Photoshop R For Interior Designers

Reimagine your living room. Interior designers and homeowners alike can take advantage of Photoshop's tools to reconfigure a room.

Provides step-by-step demonstrations that integrate Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, Google Sketchup, freehand drawings and Adobe InDesign to create visual presentations.

Photoshop for Interior Designers introduces step-by-step techniques for interior designers to successfully use Adobe Photoshop to visually communicate their design concept through graphic images and to illustrate design ideas through a visual thinking process. Instructions show how to integrate hand drawings and freehand sketches into digital drawings. Basic and advanced techniques presented include creating floor plans and elevations, preparing perspectives or isometric drawings, and applying materials, lightings, background and entourages for interior design presentations. Taking a multi-media approach, the text demonstrates how to use Photoshop to refine and modify drawings created in Google Sketchup, AutoCAD and other 3D software programs, and introduces how to use InDesign to seamlessly create graphic layouts for presentation to clients. Editable digital files for students to use to complete the projects at the end of chapters are on the book's companion website located at http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/photoshop-for-interior-designers-9781609015442/. They can also be found at https://www.fairchildbooks.com/studio-resources.

This book is one of three books in the Workshop series providing instructional tutorials for the use of Adobe(R) programs: Illustrator(R) + Photoshop(R) + InDesign(R) These tutorials are specifically created for professionals and students in interior design and architecture but could be beneficial for anyone interested in developing knowledge in these programs and exploring their application to digital visualization. Traditional manual rendering methods included sketching and constructed drawing - the former as a form of quick representation of an evolving idea and a form of design tool, the latter as a refined delineation and examination of a more mature proposal. The intent is not to replace or compete with either traditional methods or photo realistic renderings, rather provide users with effective and time saving digital methods for the design process and the production of presentation and communication documents. Book provides an in-depth study of Adobe Photoshop with a focus on using the program as a design and rendering tool for students and design professionals. Ibook has over 200 pages of systematic and detailed instructions on mastering the program and step-by-step instructions of explaining how to create various components of renderings and assemble them for final rendering views. The book is organized in the order that enables users to study Adobe Photoshop systematically and also serve as a logically organized reference resource for specific topics.

Adobe Photoshop is the world's leading image manipulation software. Used by both professional and amateur graphic designers, it is the de facto standard for print and Web publishing. "Photoshop Imaging Workshop" centers on a suite of 20 digital images created by Daniel Giordan and his staff at DigiRAMA design studios. Visually complex, and rich in layered tonality, these images are designed to inspire readers to push their understanding of Photoshop and its capabilities, while offering a glimpse over the designer's shoulder into how the images were created. The reader will not only learn the techniques used by the author, but also how to apply them to their own images. They will learn how to use curves to correct color, silhouette images, use gradient maps, build custom brushes, use blending modes, and draw and paint into an image.

This book is designed for the interior designer wanting to use hand sketching techniques, Google SketchUp, and Adobe Photoshop together to create beautiful designs and presentations. This book will teach you how to come up with fresh new design ideas and how to save time by using these powerful tools and techniques. This book presumes no previous experience with any of these tools and is divided into three sections. In the first section you will learn to use SketchUp and Photoshop starting with navigating the interface and than learning their features. In the next section you will learn hand sketching techniques and how to combine these with digital tools. In the last section of the book you will complete an interior design project leveraging the tools and techniques you learned in previous chapters while learning a few new techniques along the way. The first two chapters cover computer basics, including managing files and knowing your way around the operating system. The next three chapters introduce the reader to SketchUp, an easy to use 3D modeling program geared specifically towards architecture. Chapters six and seven present the basic tools found in Photoshop, which is the industry standard raster image editing software. Once you have worked through all the technology related introduction chapters, you will explore four chapters on various aspects of hand sketching. These chapters mainly focus on interior drawing concepts. The final four chapters work through the concept design process for an interior fit out project. The intent is that the reader would recreate these drawings as they appear in the book. The goal is to focus on understanding the process and developing the required techniques rather than getting bogged down in design right away.