{"id":7448,"date":"2020-11-12T15:53:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T15:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/?p=7448"},"modified":"2020-11-12T15:53:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T15:53:43","slug":"rendering-two-design-schemes-using-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/12\/rendering-two-design-schemes-using-photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Rendering Two Design Schemes Using Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The subject today is a rendering project envisioned for Redwood City, California by the San Francisco architectural firm of Van Meter Williams Pollack LLP.\u00a0 Completed within a couple of weeks this past summer, we needed to show a potential housing structure in two different ways, as there were two design schemes under consideration by the architect and client.\u00a0 Based on a perspective view which the architect supplies, I first draw a freehand line drawing of Scheme 1.\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7449 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-1-BW-72-dpi-300x159.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-1-BW-72-dpi-300x159.jpg?lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 300w, https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-1-BW-72-dpi.jpg?size=216x114&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 216w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/159;\" data-original-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This gets color applied, creating one complete rendering representing the Scheme 1 version of what&#8217;s being considered for the site, set within the existing site context.\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-7450 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-1-in-Color-72-dpi-1024x527.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"527\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-1-in-Color-72-dpi-1024x527.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 1024w, https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-1-in-Color-72-dpi-980x505.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 980w, https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-1-in-Color-72-dpi-480x247.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 480w, https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-1-in-Color-72-dpi.jpg?size=216x111&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 216w, https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-1-in-Color-72-dpi.jpg?size=648x333&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 648w, https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-1-in-Color-72-dpi.jpg?size=864x445&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 864w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/527;\" data-original-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/>For Scheme 2 which is a larger building, I begin by drawing the Scheme 2 building in black and white, then color that building&#8211;scanning it when it&#8217;s fully colored.\u00a0 Using Photoshop, I paste the Scheme2 building over the Scheme 1 building in the first rendering, saving this as a new version.\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7451 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-2-in-Color-72-dpi-300x154.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-2-in-Color-72-dpi-300x154.jpg?lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 300w, https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-2-in-Color-72-dpi.jpg?size=216x111&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 216w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/154;\" data-original-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>As it turns out, the client had issues with the design of Scheme 2, and a third design was developed.\u00a0 So I drew a new version of Scheme 2 which I titled Scheme 2 Take 2.\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7452 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-2-Take-2-in-Color-Raw-72-dpi-300x194.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-2-Take-2-in-Color-Raw-72-dpi-300x194.jpg?lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 300w, https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-2-Take-2-in-Color-Raw-72-dpi.jpg?size=216x140&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 216w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/194;\" data-original-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Once that building was independently colored similar to the previous, it was scanned and superimposed onto the site&#8211;over the previous buildings.\u00a0 Obviously you make the process more efficient by always drawing the smaller of the design scheme buildings first and making that your first rendering, upon which the subsequent renderings are based.\u00a0 In the end you have two complete renditions (or in this case three really) that can be shown to the audience for description, comparison, and review.\u00a0 Since the entourage and context surrounding the buildings is always the same, you are certain that the audience is comparing apples to apples, as we like to say.\u00a0 The last full image shown here is the finished rendering representing Scheme 2 Take 2 in full color.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7453 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-2-Take-2-in-Color-72-dpi.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1138\" height=\"586\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-2-Take-2-in-Color-72-dpi.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 1138w, https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-2-Take-2-in-Color-72-dpi-980x505.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 980w, https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-2-Take-2-in-Color-72-dpi-480x247.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 480w, https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-2-Take-2-in-Color-72-dpi.jpg?size=216x111&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 216w, https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-2-Take-2-in-Color-72-dpi.jpg?size=648x334&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 648w, https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-2-Take-2-in-Color-72-dpi.jpg?size=864x445&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 864w, https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/JMG-MidPen-Scheme-2-Take-2-in-Color-72-dpi.jpg?size=1080x556&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 1080w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1138px; 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