Architectural Drawing: From Paper to Photoshop
Cleaning up the Sketch in Photoshop
A course by David Drazil , Architect
About the video: Cleaning up the Sketch in Photoshop
Overview
“In this lesson, you'll see how to open the digital file of your sketch in Photoshop, clean it up, and prepare it for the digital process.”
In this video lesson David Drazil addresses the topic: Cleaning up the Sketch in Photoshop, which is part of the Domestika online course: Architectural Drawing: From Paper to Photoshop. Learn fundamental drawing techniques to create hand-drawn architectural sketches and bring them to life in Photoshop with color and texture.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Cleaning up the Sketch in Photoshop In this lesson, we're ready to clean our sketch and prepare it for the final post process. The first thing I want to do is to locate the photos that I made of my sketch. I'll choose the best one, right-click it, and Open with Photoshop. In our Layers, it has been imported as a background and it's locked. I can click on the icon to unlock it. I want to adjust it in a way that the background will be white and we'll be left with a clean, nice black linework. To zoom in and zoom out, I'm holding the Alt or Option key on my keyboard and zooming with the midd...”
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Course summary for: Architectural Drawing: From Paper to Photoshop
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Architectural Illustration, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration

David Drazil
A course by David Drazil
David Drazil is an architect who loves to sketch. Through his social media platforms, he shares his passion for the visual representation of architecture with over 233K followers. By creating educational resources on architectural sketching, David is focused on helping other architects, designers, and hobby sketchers to use sketching as a tool to improve their design process and presentation.
As a trained architect with international experience, David holds a degree in architecture and building engineering from Czech Technical University in Prague and a master’s in architecture and design from Aalborg University in Aalborg, Denmark. He also collaborates as a featured artist with the iPad sketching apps like Morpholio and ShadowDraw.
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