The Sweet Life
I am ever so guilty for being an negligent blogger. If you are in the Architecture field and you work in an office for more than 10 hours a day, I’ll be amazed if you can afford to blog daily. Okay, so I’m rationalizing. I’m sure there are architecture-inclined people out there who make time to blog. The sad thing is, sometimes I don’t. To compensate, I will try to do more quality posts. Quality over quantity, yes? I hope this will be worth your while. 🙂
Architectural Thesis Rendering
So you have a design. Your vision on how you want to present it has a direction. You fairly know how to do your 3d model and you know how that render button works. What’s lacking? Maybe some extra oomph? Plus, added visualization and better execution wouldn’t hurt too. I think I know what you need!
I was contacted via this blog by some architecture students mid to late January to do some rendering enhancements for their undergraduate theses. February, after all, is the thesis defense month for most. Since PHOTOSHOP-ing photos to life is a favorite hobby, I happily agreed to the job.
Things I do in Photoshop
I have a confession: I am a certified Photoshop-er. Oh wait, you know that already?
I started learning the art back in 2011. I began with simple adjustments of levels, curves and brightness, with dodging and with burning, with clone stamping. I was then forced to learn more when I was doing my architectural rendering for my thesis in 2012. With the help of Alex Hogrefe’s tutorials, I have improved. Today I use Photoshop for a living (well, not entirely) and sometimes just when I’m bored. For example: