Bradley Cantrell and Wes Michaels - Digital Drawing For Landscape Architecture [2010, PDF, ENG]

Part 1: Concepts
Chapter 1: Introduction/Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Computing Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 2: Analog and Digital Rendering Comparisons. . 17
Efficiency and Editability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Commonalitiesand Parallels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Hybrid Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Chapter 3: Basic Overview of Digital Concepts . . . . . . 23
Raster-Based Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Resolution in Raster Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Upsampling and Downsampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Vector Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Using Raster Images in Vector-Based Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Chapter 4: Digital Drawings in the Design Process . . . . 32
Applications for Specific Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Moving between Analog and Digital Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Part 2: Base Imagery
Chapter 5: Setting up the Document . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Drawings at Multiple Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
How Drawings Move through the Digital Workflow . . . . . . . . . . 39
Setting the Image Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Chapter 6: Base Imagery and Scaling . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Aerial Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Obtaining theAerial Photograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Tiling Aerial Photographs in Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Manual Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Tiling Photographs with Photomerge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Scaling the Aerial Photograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Calculator Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Scale by Reference Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S1
Pixel Conversion Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Adjusting the Hue, Saturation, and lightness of Baselmagery . . . . . 53
Using CAD Linework as a Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Exporting the CAD Linework as a PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Chapter 7: Hand-Drawn Linework . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Sketchesin CAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Using Magic Wand and Color Range Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Using the Color Range Selection Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Chapter 8: Source Imagery/Entourage . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Manual Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Partial Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Part 3: Design Diagrams
Chapter 9: Introduction to Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Passive Diagramming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Active Diagramming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Abstraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Distilling and Culling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Diagram Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Chapter 10: Setting up an Illustrator Drawing . . . . . . 91
Document Size/Color Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Based Programs for Design Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Importing an Aerial Photo into Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Linkversus Embed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
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