Video Tutorial: Create Your Own Sky In Photoshop (part 1)

This is the first of what is hopefully many video tutorials that focus on techniques associated with architectural rendering. This particular video tutorial is a two part video that shows you how to take raw digital photographs, and Photoshop them to be high resolution background images for your renderings.   Below the video is a brief description of tools and shortcuts used, and how to use these tools. Be sure to follow the link to the second part of the video. Note: if you receive an error message stating that the video cannot be found, this is a bug in YouTube, hit the refresh button 10-20 times and the video will work.

Click to view the second part of this tutorial.

Shortcuts & tools that are used in this tutorial:

(H) – Pan – Allows you to use the hand to pan across your drawing.

*(J) -  Healing Brush Tool – In this tutorial we use this tool for blending areas of varying tone and removing minor blemishes.  Remember to use the alt + left click to sample an area of your drawing in order to use the tool.  Your sample area should be close to the area you are blending, but not always necessary.

(S) – Clone Stamp Tool – In this tutorial we use this tool to recreate large areas of the drawing and then blend away areas that have high contrast with the Healing Brush Tool to make the image look natural. Remember to use the alt + left click to sample an area of your drawing in order to use the tool.  Your sample area should be close to the area you are blending, but not always necessary.

(CTRL +) – Zoom In Incrementally

(CTRL -) - Zoom Out Incrementally

*TIME SAVING TIP – Sometimes you need to hold the shift key while using a shortcut key to cycle through the different tools that are grouped together under the same pallette.  For instance the Spot Healing Brush Tool is the default tool selected when pressing J shortcut key.  In order to select the Healing Brush Tool, press Shift + J to cycle through different tools.

If you have any questions regarding the tutorial please post comments below.

09.08.14 | by James  | No Comments
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