PixelFlakes is a small but powerful rendering firm produces high quality render techniques, especially using Photoshop. Their site is a combination of a portfolio, blog, and tutorial guide. The best part of their site is watching the Monthly 1 hour Challenge, where all the artists at Pixel Flakes spend 1 hour a month doing a rendering. They work for foster, BIG, Aedas, Arup and many others. In this tutorial, Shipyard Postwork Breakdown ,PixelFlakes simply shows you a quick and effective method of turning a simple render into something life-like and photorealistic.
Architectural Visualization tips
RonenBekerman.com is a helpful source of learning on all aspects of 3d architectural visualization. There you will find articles & tutorials about 3d modeling & 3d rendering with software such as 3ds max, Maya, Cinema 4D, Modo, SketchUP, V-Ray, Maxwell Render, Corona Renderer, Photoshop and more. In this link you will find 12 Postwork Style Architectural Visualization Tutorials that we would highly recommend you to visit !
Illustrating an Architectural Plan in Photoshop
It’s quite often for architects to create mostly black & white page layouts for their project presentations. However some of the big players out there have already noticed that the way your project looks can make the difference between a successful presentation or a ok one, since as most of you know first impressions count and clients sometimes have hard time reading a building plan, so why not make it easy for them.
Don’t get me wrong, i consider 40% of the success goes to the way you present your content, 30% goes to the projects complexity the 30% goes to the project look.
Are you new to Photoshop? This is for you
If you are new to Photoshop, this 30 minutes online video will walk you around the basic interface and how to set up Photoshop. The whole series will be even more beneficial if you want to start from scratch.
Free Material for Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
Many of the actions we do with software have become automatic to reduce our production time. Brushes and Actions for Photoshop, Vectos and Templates for Illustrator. These two websites can accompany you for more productive work.
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