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With all the great teaser photos being issued by the factory hinting at Revit 7.0 capabilities, I thought I’d show how to make the image posted
below. We start with the factory image shown here. Not bad, but someone decides it looks “too hard” make it “more sketchy”. Well here we go.
Photoshop is an image manipulation software which uses math to modify an image. As it has matured, the software has gained more and more features.
With this tutorial, I will use Photoshop 7.0, Currently Photoshop is now known as “CS 8.0”. Most of these features are available from Photoshop
5.1 on. This basic tutorial will use 3 levels of “layers” to modify the image to what has been asked for by marketing. On with the tutorial.
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1. Start Photoshop and open the attached jpeg image – should look something like below You should have your tool bar, layer
window, and if you have an earlier version – your brush window open. When you open the image in Photoshop, you get the image posted here as
Figure One. I like to maintain this image as a base to always go back to, so I rarely modify the base original, or background image.
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2. Select the blue highlighted “Original” or “Background” layer in the layer window and make a copy (or duplicate) of the
layer. Be sure that this newly created layer (now named Background copy) is highlighted in the blue. Select from the Filter pull down, Filter,
then Artistic, then Cutout. A new dialogue pops up, and you get a preview window with three different numerical values to play with. For this
tutorial use the numbers 7, 1, 3 (top to bottom), and apply. This will take a few minutes. Cutout is a filter that you can imagine as taking the
image and making it appear as if someone used color paper to make the image (thus “cutout”). Now your image doesn’t look a lot differently, but
there is a change (left image below) When finished rename the layer (right click on the Blue highlighted layer – select layer properties – rename)
to be more descriptive –I used Cutout, 7.1.3 – Basically to describe what I did with this layer (and to refer back later to it if I really like the
effect). (right image below).
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