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MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURAL DIGITAL SKILLS PESENTATION
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MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURAL DIGITAL SKILLS PESENTATION SOL & ALEX 20.11.2019 01 Photoshop Exercise: working with section from CAD SOL & ALEX DIGITAL SKILLS PRESENTATION 2 20.11.2019 2019-2020 Leave this as
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Open photoshop and drag and drop your Section file.
Opening Photoshop
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Leave this as it has it for now, we will next make sure its the right size.
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Image > Canvas Size
Canvas Size
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Go to the image tab and edit the canvas size to be a landscape A3 size. Double click and rename your layer.
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Drag and drop your brick texture image
Place Brick texture
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Resize it to be a roughly appropriate size for the wall its going
- n. Then press enter.
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Hold ALT and drag.
Duplicate the image
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Hold ALT and drag the image until its adjacent to the original. It should snap, repeat this until it goes beyond the width of the wall.
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Select layers, right click and merge them
Merge Layers
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You can see that each brick image has its own layer, but we want them as 1. So, with them all selected, right click and click Merge Layers to combine them.
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Hold ALT and drag.
Duplicate Vertically
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Repeat the duplication process, holding ALT and dragging the merged brick images up so that they go beyond the wall. Then Merge the layers.
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Magic wand tool and Delete.
Trim off excess Wall
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With the magic wand tool activated (you may have to right click
- n the tool location and switch to magic wand), and the Section
layer selected, click in the area where the wall is. Now press CTRL + SHIFT + I to select the inverse of the wall, and DELETE the excess.
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Image > Adjustment > Levels
Make the Texture more faint
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With the brick texture layer selected, go to Image > Adjustment > Levels and on the window, move the arrow at the black end on the left towards the right until you are happy with it.
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Adjust size
Place the Person file
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Drag and drop your ‘person’ image. Right click on the person image layer and Rasterise it.
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Select > Colour Range
Delete Background Colour
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With the person layer selected, go to the select tab, go to colour range, and with the window open, click on the background white
- space. Click ok.
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Polygonal Lasso Tool
Improve your selection
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The white background is selected but so is some of the persons
- shirt. Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool and, whilst holding ALT,
select the area on his shirt that you don’t want selected. Right click on the person layer and Rasterise it. Then press DELETE to delete the white background.
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Select and DELETE. Then Save.
Delete the overlap
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Select the bit of shoe that is overlapping the section line and DELETE it. Your Photoshop edit is now complete. Tidy up your layers if they aren’t already so that there are 3 and they are named.
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Turn off the Section layer and SAVE.
Finishing Up
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Click on the eye on the Left of the Section layer. Go to File and Save it.
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Illustrator Exercise: diagram
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You are prompted to select a size for you new document layout
Opening Illustrator
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OVERVIEW
Use the right side to select width, height and orientation of your page - A3 Landscape (420mm x 297mm)
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File > Place > Original Section.pdf file.
Place Section File
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OVERVIEW
Place the original Section file we had. This file is a Vector. Vectors are more editable and do not pixelate. Where Photoshop works in pixels, Illustrator works in vectors.
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With the Section file selected, go to Object, and Ungroup.
Ungroup the new file.
You may have to do this multiple times.
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Select > Same Stroke Weight
Move the Section Cut lines to a new layer
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With a line from the Section cut selected (You may need to repeatedly click on it to get it selected), go to Object, Select, Same Stroke Weight.
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Move the Section Cut lines to a new layer
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Create a new layer called Section Cut Edit > Paste in Place
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Turn the section cut lines into a solid shape.
Shape builder
With the section cut lines selected, use the Shape Builder tool on the right and click in the 2 areas between the section cut lines. This will build them into a solid object. Press escape when done. With one of these built shapes selected, double click on the fill colour on the right and change it to a colour. You may need to right click here and change it to RGB
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Eye dropper tool.
Fill The other Section Cut
With your second (unfilled) section cut shape selected, choose the Eye dropper tool. Then click on your filled section cut shape. This will give it the same attributes as the first.
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Draw a ventillation line using the Pen tool. If you click, hold and drag at each point this will give it a curve.
Pen Tool
With your second (unfilled) section cut shape selected, choose the Eye dropper tool. Then click on your filled section cut shape. This will give it the same attributes as the first. Repeat until you have a curvy line. If you right click on the pen tool you can switch to the anchor tool and edit each control point on the line.
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Turn off the Fill and give it a blue colour. Turn off the Fill and give it a blue colour. Then edit the stroke weight. Tick Dashed Line and change the dash and gap scaling, and give it an arrow head from the drop down menu.
Change Line Settings
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Move your ventilation arrow to a new Layer
Organise your layers
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Use the elipse tool and the line tool to draw a basic tree Make sure the elipse is on top and its on the Background layer.
Draw some simple trees
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Press Alt and drag to duplicate. Then rescale whilst holding Shift
Duplicate
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File > Place > Navigate the Photoshop file
Place the Photoshop file
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02 Scale and Place
Drag scale and place it on the bottom layer
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Right click > Transform > Reflect Flip the ventillation line. Then, using the Direct Select Tool, edit the individual control points on the line until it looks right
Transform and Edit
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With your JPEG selected, go to Image, Image trace This will convert a raster image into a vector file. Have a play with this wioth different types of image and different types of
- trace. Its an incredibly useful tool.
Image Trace
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Select > Same Fill , and change the colour Save
Change the Fill Colour and Finish
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Indesign Exercise: booklet layout
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You are prompted to select a size for you new document layout
Opening InDesign
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Use the right side to select width, height and orientation of your page as well as number of pages for your project.
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Select the Pages Tab, on the right. Right Click on the master page section of the pages tab and select new master
Setting up Master Pages
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Name your Master Page and press ok to generate it.
Setting up Master Pages
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Go to the Layout Tab and select Create Guides
Create Grid Guides for your File
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Select the number of columns, rows, gutter and whether to include margins or not.
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While on your master page, create a text box by selecting the text command on the left and dragging your mouse to create a box on the page
Setting up Master Pages
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Double click on the text box you created to make it active then go to Type, Insert Special Character, Markers, Current Page Number.
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Name your Master Page and press ok to generate it.
Create Character Styles
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Create a new character style by pressing the page icon on the bottom of the tab and them right click and select edit
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Use the option provided on the different tabs to name your style and add associated font styles and sizes to it. Click ok to confirm
- changes. You can right click and duplicate the styles forming a
series of them.
Edit Character Styles
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Create new text boxes and apply character styles by selecting the box and then while selected clicking on the character style you wish to apply.
Applying Character Styles
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Select all pages you wish to apply the master page to and right click / apply master page. This will apply all master pages to them. Then to edit the text boxes on each page you must overwrite all master page items by right clicking on the page again and selecting
- verwrite all master page items.
Apply Master to Pages and Overwrite
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To place an image click on the file tab and select place. This will
- pen a new window where you can select the image / diagram file to
be inserted and click ok. The image will appear around your cursor and you can now click to indicate the location of placement. The image can be resized by dragging the control points in or out when the image is selecting while pressing control and shift (for uniform resizing only).
Inserting an Image or Diagram
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To export your work as a pdf document select file on the top tab and select export. The first window to pop up asks you to select the
- utput location and file type (preferably interactive pdf).
Exporting your portfolio
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Once the location has been selected. All you have to do is select the pages to export and then set whether it is a single page or as a spread, the dpi of the images (useful to play around with to lower portfolio sizes). Once all options are acceptable click export and indesign will generate a pdf document of your portfolio.
Exporting your portfolio