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Digital Watercolor-Style Tutorial
Introduction This tutorial covers the steps to quickly turn a basic SketchUp/VRAY view into a watercolor-style drawing. While there is no substitute for the real thing, the effect can be easily applied to give a drawing a softer and more conceptual or artistic feeling in contrast to the clean and perfect renderings that are now commonplace […]
Tutorial – Photoshop Basics PT5 – Custom Brush Textures
This tutorial covers adding organic textures such as shrubs and groundcover over your base layers in order to achieve a loose and soft effect. Use of repeating textures works for ground planes but not plant material. Custom and special effect brushes also work well for other ‘organic’ content such as water, rocks, flowers, etc…
Tutorial – Photoshop Basics PT4 – Patterns & Textures
This tutorial covers adding pattern images and textures to your drawing in order to create a sense of depth and detail it would otherwise lack. Different methods include non-seamless patterning using ‘paste into’ or layer masking, and seamless patterning using the ‘pattern overlay’ layer style. Tutorial also covers how to create custom pattern presets using […]
Tutorial – Photoshop Basics PT3 – Adding Shadows
This tutorial looks at creating shadows for different objects using different methods, including: drop shadow, custom shadow brush, and shadow offset using layer copies. Other features covered include blend mode, blur, and dodge and burn tools.
Tutorial – Photoshop Basics PT 2 – Adding Entourage
This tutorial covers adding and manipulating entourage from outside sources to add to your drawing. Techniques include: background eraser, select by color range, transform (scale & rotate), multiple copy, and transparency.
Tutorial – Photoshop Basics PT 1 – Setup, Layers, Color
This tutorial cover the basic features of getting a drawing open and ready to color in Photoshop. It covers importing PDFs, layer set up, naming, and grouping, selection tools including lasso and magic wand, and finally filling with solid gradients.
Tutorial – Plotting PDFs from AutoCAD Using Plot Styles
This tutorial covers the process for loading custom CTB (color dependent plot style) files which give line thickness and color attributes to your CAD linework. After loading CTB files, tutorial covers the basics of plotting to PDF (*note: there are some, mostly visual, differences between CAD for Mac and PC so if you have trouble […]
Tutorial – AutoCAD 101
This tutorial covers several important drafting techniques in AutoCAD, including: drafting methodology, layers, blocks, UCS, ortho, grips, match properties, distance/measure, offset, trim, extend, poly lines, explode, fillet.
Tutorial – Exporting GIS Data to Adobe Illustrator
This tutorial looks at the process of exporting GIS shapefile linework from various sources from QGIS to Illustrator. Once in Illustrator, this tutorial covers layer management, stroke and fill settings, and editing linework. This process is used to quickly create detailed and accurate vector base maps for analysis and context mapping and diagramming.
Tutorial – Exporting GIS Data to DXF / DWG
This tutorial covers export options from QGIS to DXF format. Troubleshoots potential problems and provides work around in case export fails. This process comes in handy when needing to edit or manipulate linework in a program outside of GIS. Once in DXF format, data can be plotted to PDF or saved as DWG which can […]
Tutorial – Slope Analysis in SketchUp
This tutorial provides an overview of the Color by Slope Plugin by Chris Fulmer. This tool comes in hand for creating simple slope analysis in SU. Download plugin her: extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/clf-color-slope
Tutorial – Creating Contour Lines from Google Earth in SketchUp
This tutorial looks at the method for creating quick contour lines in SU from imported Google Earth terrain. This feature comes in handy when no topo or survey data is available for a site. Contours can then be flattened and exported to Illustrator or CAD for further refinement and integration into other drawings.
Tutorial – SketchUp to Photoshop Basics
This tutorial covers the basic methodology for approaching entourage, texture and color edits to an exported SketchUp view using Photoshop. The tutorial looks at three different examples of views that need post production edits in order to be more technically accurate and visually appealing. These view are: 1. ground-level perspective view, 2. section cut, 3. […]