How Photoshop Tools Help Improve Architectural Renderings

Every masterpiece comes to life once the finishing touches are added. For architectural renderings, the popular software known as Photoshop can add finishing touches to renders with its image creating and editing tools. Architects use Photoshop and its enhancement tools for editing images and enhancing their final presentation. Knowing how to use Photoshop with 3ds Max becomes an advantage while applying for visualization jobs.

In rendered images, Photoshop is usually used to sharpen certain areas of the final images. By adding different layers, reflections, refraction, diffuse colours, shadows and lighting elements can be added with Photoshop to add final touches to a rendered image. To further add life to a rendered image, the placement of people on an image is easier using Photoshop.

There are certain tools in Photoshop that act as lifesavers for making minor edits to rendered images. They are:Selection Tools

Polygonal Lasso Tool This tool is useful for capturing geometric forms with straight lines and corners.

Single Column and Row Marquee Tool This tool is useful when you need to trim just a tiny bit from the edge of an image. Instead of selecting the rest of the image and cropping that wee edge, use one of these tools to select just the edge, or use it to add or subtract from an existing selection.

Magic Wand Tool Using the Magic Wand Tool, you can select a colour in the image, and this tool selects all adjacent pixels of the same shade or colour.

Different LayersBlending Modes Blending Modes is a category of tools to blend pixels of two images with each other to produce different effects, and this can be a very useful method of experimenting with different effects.

Layer Masking Layer Masking is a way to hide part of a layer. This offers a very flexible and varied editing process, that allows the original copy to be easily reverted to at any time.

Adjustment LayersAdjustment Layers in Photoshop are a group of useful, non-destructive image editing tools that add colour and tonal adjustments to an image without permanently changing its pixels. With the Adjustment Layers, the original image can be edited and discarded with adjustments or restored at any time. This will make the workflow in Photoshop more flexible.

Define Pattern (creating custom patterns)Using the Define Pattern tool, one can create customised patterns and save it in a library.

Retouching ToolsDodge Tool & Burn Tool The Dodge tool and the Burn tool lighten or darken areas of the image. The Burn and Dodge tools offer an excellent and quick method of adding depth and grit to architectural images, if used subtly with the correct opacity settings.

Smart Objects ToolThis tool enables placing a photograph on the canvas and scaling it down. It also saves applied transformations to the image and preserves the original image to make future changes.

Reveal All As Photoshop files consist of many layers, there may be hidden pixels in a canvas. This tool enlarges the canvas to fit all pixels used in each layer. There are CAD/BIM training centres in Mumbai that help visualizers apply for visualization jobs in Mumbai by offering Autodesk-certified courses in 3ds Max with V-Ray. Along with this course, they also offer a course in Photoshop. The acquired Photoshop knowledge helps users make minor edits to the rendered images used for client presentations.

Prabhat Singh heads Grey Edge, a leading Autodesk Revit MEP Training Centre in Mumbai. Prabhat has been instrumental in designing many types of curriculum related to domains, such as architecture, interior design and web designing and development.