Photoshop – A helpful tool for Interior Designers.

Photoshop is a versatile software which is used for image editing and repairing damaged images to attain the desire results. It has been manufactured and developed by Adobe system. In 1988, Thomas and John knoll who were the American scientists created Photoshop.

It is also used for photographic, digital paintings, graphic designing and GUI designing. PSD (Photoshop document) and PSB (Photoshop big) are the file formats where PSD is larger than PSB format. These file formats recognized to Photoshop. An interior and architect designer can also be an Adobe Photoshop master who performs following work through the point of view of interior and architectural designing.

Most Common Tasks of Adobe Photoshop

⦁ Pattern Making
⦁ Wallpaper Designing
⦁ Background Making
⦁ Cutout
⦁ Day to night effects
⦁ Matte painting
⦁ Retouching images
⦁ Plan rendering
⦁ Digital painting
⦁ Text effect
⦁ Texture

About Architect: An architect is a person who plans and designs of buildings and structures. Along with planning and designing the drafts, he also performs the supervision work for his construction.

About Interior Designer: An Interior designer has the specialization in interior design, furniture designing, room decoration (like lighting, colors etc.) and furnishings of interior parts.

Use of Adobe Photoshop for Architects

Photoshop is a powerful tool which helps architects and designers to produce the awesome plan renderings, day and night effects, texture effects, etc. Hence, we can say that Photoshop is one of the trustable assistance of an architect.

Photoshop has many functions that are helpful for architects:

Multiple layer support 

• You can save your files in PSD and JPEG format
• Using Photoshop an architect can do the work smarter and faster
• You can create a render plan of landscapes and make your project very good-looking
• Adding textures and colors in plan rendering, you can give a nice look to your plan.

Below are some plan rendering examples:

See more plan rendering projects made by our students.

Architects can cutout the different images and can place those in their architectural visualization project as per the requirement. For instance, they can take a cutout of images like (trees, people, benches, vehicle, etc.). These cutouts give a realistic look to the plan.
Below are some examples of cutout: