aironite

I agree.

I use Corel extensively. Although exporting from AutoCad to Corel causes deformation most especially with arcs. There's a corel script available to fix this problem. I've downloaded it but yet to experiment with it.

Shaun, check this past thread and tell me what you think. Its a few renders. The second whose DP was done and angled in Autocad, exported to Corel to create the building and exported to PS for other retouch (landscaping). The client didn't have any elevation or other drawings except the DP. The rest of the images are freehands.

http://www.photoshopgurus.info/forum...=&threadid=391

vee

ShaunAtUC

Hey vee-

I think all the renderings look awesome! I wish I had your skill in hand-rendering. The second one you say was drawn in AutoCAD? Have you ever experimented with AutoCAD's rendering capabilities? There is a plug-in available called Accurender. It is a great plug-in for rendering very life-like images. I have used it a few times. But other than that, I think you have great talent...especially on such a short time frame!!

aironite

Thanks, man.

All our CAD operators were busy at the time preparing the working drawings. I was assigned the task to prepare the renders.

I'm not that good with CAD so for this project, I took a different approach.

I did the buildings in Corel coz I could do it faster compared to using Autocad. Considering I had a single DP and a single freehand side elevation of each building with no dimensions, what a headache. I had to eyeball the thing as if doing a freehand.

vee

wbiss

Welcome Shaun AIT to the forum and enjoy your stay!

Oooooh, when I read about how you unknowlingly neglected to save your original file, my heart ached for you... haven't we all been there and learned that lesson (save/save/save...) the hard way! [honesty]

Vee - your architectural renderings (thanks for posting the thread) are totally awesome!!! [righton] [righton] [righton]

I hope that you acquired a few new toys after all that pressure & hard work?

Welcome to the board ShaunAtUC.

Just look around and you will discover what this board is all about and what makes it special. I hope to see you more on this board [righton]

Blinky2004

Hiya Shaun, welcome to the community. [excited]
Hope you enjoy your stay.

I'd just like to echo a few things already mentioned, and add a bit more about this kind of thing, if i may...

As far as scaling images UP in PS, that's usually a bad idea if it's any more than 20-25%. Particularily if the image is in a rasterized (bitmap) format. The pixels will only get torn apart, and there's just not a lot that can be done to maintain image clarity or resolution. That's the nature of bitmaps.

On the other hand...
If you had the ambition, and the time, one might be able to trace the smaller version using Paths, after which the group of Paths could be scaled up to the necessary size, and either filled or stroked, or both... to reproduce the original image at a more functional resolution.

This solution can be tedious, but it does work.
It's essentially the same as tracing the image in a vector application, or even a lot like doing it in a CAD program too i imagine.

ShaunAtUC

Hey-

Thanks for all the welcomes. This seems like a wonderful place to get and give info and I am sure I will be frequenting these pages quite often. "Keeper" yeah, that's basically what I did in AutoCAD. I brought the image in as a raster file, traced it, and exported it at a very large size. Once I got it back in Photoshop, I added fill, and just cleaned up a few things. It worked well, but like you said, it was tedious. Hopefully I will not have to do that anymore!!!