Digital drawing for landscape architecture : contemporary techniques and tools for digital representation in site design / Bradley Cantrell & Wes Michaels

Includes bibliographical references and index

Analog and digital rendering comparisons -- Basic overview of digital concepts -- Digital drawings in the design process -- Setting up the document -- Base imagery and scaling -- Hand-drawn linework -- Source imagery/entourage -- Introduction to diagrams -- Setting up an Illustrator drawing -- Linework in Illustrator -- Custom linework -- Symbols -- Text, leaders, and page layout -- Exploded axonometric diagrams -- Introduction to renderings -- Importing PDF linework -- Applying color to a plan rendering -- Shading techniques -- Creating textures -- Brushes -- Plan symbols with Smart Objects -- Managing large Photoshop files -- Creating a section elevation -- Perspective illustration -- Creating a base for a perspective drawing -- Atmospheric perspective -- Camera match 3D object to site photo -- Create a Photoshop perspective collage -- Developing a perspective image in Photoshop from a 3D model

This guide fuses contemporary methods with traditional rendering techniques in order to provide the best advice on using digital rendering programmes. As well as providing an overview of the topic it explores specific techniques such as digitally rendered plans, perspectives and diagrams.