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"Digital Drawing is a sophisticated digital media book focused primarily on creating photomontage images for site design. This book, aims to be a software neutral and has a strong, theory–based designer′s point of view. This is the first landscape architecture book available as an eBook, so the authors thoroughly embrace modern communication tools while still holding to the tried–and–true landscape architecture values of high–quality graphic representation." (Landscape Architecture, August 2010)
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For a hundred years, pencil, pen, markers, and watercolor have been the principal tools of representation for landscape architects and urban planners. Today, those hand–powered aids have been replaced by computers and Computer–aided design (CAD). Digital Drawing for Landscape Architects bridges the gap between the traditional analog and the new digital tools and shows you how to apply timeless concepts of representation to enhance your design work in digital media.
Building on the tried–and–true principles of analog representation, Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture explores specific techniques for creating landscape design digitally. It explains the similarities and differences between analog and digital rendering, and then walks you through the steps of creating digitally rendered plans, perspectives, and diagrams. You’ll explore:
- Computing Basics
- Raster and vector images
- Setting up the document
- Base imagery and scaling
- Hand–drawn linework and diagrams
- Text, leaders, and page layout
- Color, shading, and textures
- Creating a section elevation
- Perspective drawing
- Techniques for using the newest versions of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat as well as older versions
With more than 500 full–color drawings and photographs alongside proven techniques, Digital Drawing for Landscape Architects will help you enhance your skills though a unique marriage of contemporary methods with traditional rendering techniques.
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Format:Paperback
This is an excellent introductory book with a few more advanced techniques as well. Very good at demonstating how the integrated use of several industry standard software packages can produce very good results. The last few chapters give quite a good overview of creating perspective visualisations through various methods, a very useful tool for promoting/selling a scheme. It is quite expensive but then that is to be expected in such a specialised subject area; would suit a new student of the subject.
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Format:Paperback
This excellent book offers a thorough grounding in a wide variety of forms of digital visual representation for Landscape Architects and designers, using several of the most common software packages. Methods explored go from scale drawings of sites, to laying out presentations and creating visual perspectives. It also shows the inter-connectivity between these software packages (for example methods of rendering PDF line work exported from AutoCad into Photoshop) to make the most of their respective advantages. The overall result is a succinct guide to making sure you get the most out of the software you do have in making professional graphics easily. It is well laid out, with structured chapters that start with the basics and work up to more complex techniques. Often a chapter will look at one method of representation using a particular programme. Frequent screenshots and examples of work break up the body of the text nicely and make it easy to read. This book is a must for any student entering the field or anyone looking to expand their skill set. I wish I had read this book a long time ago; it really does contain a wealth of knowledge. This book in no way is a replacement for analogue techniques, as it discusses, it just shows you the best of what is out there. Hopefully it will give the reader (as it gave me) the confidence to really experiment with these systems and the plethora of functions they have.
The only thing holding me back from giving it a 5* rating is the price. This book is VERY EXPENSIVE. The RRP is frankly laughable for a book of it's size and I doubt anyone would pay full price for it, which is a shame as it's so very good! The Amazon listing price is still very dear. Worryingly, it is the students who may benefit the most from this book that may well be put off buying it.
The only thing holding me back from giving it a 5* rating is the price. This book is VERY EXPENSIVE. The RRP is frankly laughable for a book of it's size and I doubt anyone would pay full price for it, which is a shame as it's so very good! The Amazon listing price is still very dear. Worryingly, it is the students who may benefit the most from this book that may well be put off buying it.
Format:Paperback
This is a fantastic book which is really focused on getting the most out of Adobe creative suite for Landscape presentation work.
It has good basic tips for Photoshop and quite a lot on how to use Illustrator to achieve certain standard format presentation methods for Landscape Architects, such as the exploded diagram. It only mentions other 3D software in passing but is a great introductory book which equips you with the knowledge to go on and try your own slant on things. Highly recommended.
It has good basic tips for Photoshop and quite a lot on how to use Illustrator to achieve certain standard format presentation methods for Landscape Architects, such as the exploded diagram. It only mentions other 3D software in passing but is a great introductory book which equips you with the knowledge to go on and try your own slant on things. Highly recommended.
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