hi guys so today's video is all about rendering floor plans in Photoshop with
furniture and materials in a smooth effective and quick way this video is
also sponsored by Skillshare but more on that later for now let's get into the
video the first thing that we need to do is import our drawing from AutoCAD into
Photoshop as pdf-file and then I'm going to rename all of the
layers and lock them so that they don't bother us in the future and then I'm
going to add a color overlay to the walls usually for plans I would go with
black but since this is with furniture and materials black can be harsh so I'd
go with a dark grey so that it still has contrast first I'm going to select all
of the glass panels or windows and add a blue color overlay some of the
techniques I use today I learned by experimenting with photoshop tools and
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supporting channels like mine and then I'm going to select the frames of the
window and add a golden color to some and a silver color to some so that there
is a play of materials and if you watch my previous video of the modeling of
this room with the v-ray render you kind of know process of the design and
everything so definitely check that video out if you haven't already
and now we're going to select the balcony and add a pattern to it and just
for fun I was checking the patterns that I have already saved and I found this
really nice stone tiles so I thought I just use it saves me some time and then
I'm going to add a timber pattern to all of my closets and then I'm also going to
select its frame and add a golden color overlay don't worry if you don't have
those as patterns in your Photoshop file because I will show you how to create
patterns for your materials
so now I'm adding a blue color overlay to the sinks and the bathtub just to
kind of look as if there's water in it then I'm going to find a black marble
texture on Google and I'm going to try and use that for the bathroom so to turn
that into a pattern you first have to save the image from Google and then open
that in Photoshop if you go to edit and define pattern then you can use that in
your Photoshop file really easy so I'm going to use the rectangular selection
tool and I'm just gonna test out in the area with some black marble looks nice
it looks modern but I feel that it's very dark even though I lowered its
opacity it still felt dark so I wanted to make the space feel a bit lighter so
I thought I'd add another marble texture on top in some areas found so many on
Google but nothing just worked with this black marble
so afterwards I've decided you know what I actually have to draw the tiles in
AutoCAD to make the floor plan clean and professional instead of faking it in
Photoshop so I went back into AutoCAD and then I added the areas where I want
to add emphasis and I added all of the tiles and I think it looks so much nicer
now so using the same layer as the timber texture I'm going to select a few
other areas and then I'm going to color over that with white in the layer mask
to reveal and I know some of you are not aware of how layer masks work so I'll
leave in the cards video that I've made on layer masks that you can watch so I'm
going to color the bedside tables in black so that it matches the black
marble and then I'm going to add reflection using the polygonal lasso
tool in the color white to emphasize these tables being glass
so now this is my second attempt of adding black marble and I'm going to
select all of the tiles and then add the layer on top as a layer mask
and I always every time I select these tiles I do miss one or two its so
annoying something about the tiles being black still didn't make any sense so I
thought maybe it's the color of the walls that are throwing me off so I
thought okay I'll change the color of the wall to white to see if that'll
worked and some things just didn't quite feel right so I decided to check if
maybe it was the marble in black and I found this one on Pinterest which was so
nice because it had a lot of movement to it which I really wanted and it was
white and gold and beige and it kind of fits in with the story that I was trying
to tell in that space so I thought I'll just give it a try and to my surprise it
was amazing like literally amazing I was completely
shocked because it worked so well so now it was a matter of finding another
marble texture for the vanity so I found a few options and I would never ever
think to pair it with pink I hate pink but I was testing out a few examples of
camera and I saw this one and I was like am I crazy or does this work together
because I feel that the marble on the floor has a bit of pink undertone so I
think that the pink vanity kind of brings it out more am I crazy but anyway
I tested a few other examples and I think the first one that I tried was the
best so I decided to keep it and I'm also going to add the same texture on
those entices parts but I'm going to lower its opacity
so I'm going to bring back the color of the walls to gray because white did not
do it for me and then I'm going to change the colour of those table tops
because they're not black anymore and change that to pink I hate pink so then
I'm going to add a fabric texture on the bed
I wanted the battery completely white because it's a hotel I need to know it's
clean so I found this texture that I really like because it kind of had this
ripple effect so it kind of adds a bit of movement into the bed
I also added these plant pots when I imported the new drawing from AutoCAD I
was going for marble and I honestly did not want to go looking for any more
marble images I'm sorry so I'm going to add the black marble texture and then
I'm going to change the blending options to see if one of them will give me a
white marble and guess what it worked sometimes being lazy does pay off so then
I'm going to add a grass texture and I also added the golden color to the
frames of the chairs and then I added a fabric texture to see
and then I'm going to add this tree image do you know that I use this tree
image in almost every floor plan but I never think to save it I always have to
go to google and search for it again drives me insane but anyway going to
duplicate the layer and add that on the bottom and then using levels turn that
tree into completely black so that'll be its shadow I'm sorry but I can't give
you a logical explanation to why I don't just use drop shadow merge the layers
together and then I'm going to add that to each of my pots I feel like it's not
the right help me on guys is it pots is it three plots three plants pots so now
I'm going to add a timber texture for the floor and I was debating between two
I really wanted a diagonal pattern because feel like it's a bit more
interesting they started to go with the one that had straight edges and I
lowered its opacity and I added a hue and saturation layer to reduce its
saturation because I felt that it was very bright
and then I'm going to also add the golden color to the labs
and using a soft white brush on a layer underneath I'm just going to keep
clicking a few times till I get light from the lumps so now that we're done
with adding materials now it's time to add shadow which will make this
floorplan really stand out so for the bed since it's made up from a few
materials I added a rectangle first and then I add a drop shadow
which then I could using the polygonal lasso tool trace over that and colour that
with black and lower its opacity so I did the same technique to pretty much
everything the walls chairs some of them I just left it as drop shadow but for
the walls I did the drop shadow and then the polygonal lasso tool after so now
I'm just going to select timber texture of the floor and that on a new layer
added a bit of shadow around the edges of the walls a little bit on the
furniture it's really important that you first decide where the light source is
so in my case it will definitely be the balcony and the curtain wall so now I'm
just going to use the polygonal lasso tool and select the area and if I hold
down on shift using the polygonal lasso tool I can then create this diagonal
line that is consistent in this room and also the bathroom and then I can add
white color overlay and then lower its opacity
the last step is to put everything in a group just so that it's easy to look at
I'm going to press ctrl alt shift and E so basically your whole keyboard so then
we can go into Camera Raw filter and then we can edit that increase the
exposure a little bit increase the contrast increase the clarity so
basically just edit it to suit your style so this is the before and after of
the floor plan I am completely smitten with the floor plan to be honest the
bathroom just takes my breath away every time I look at it really wish I had that
bathroom right now let me know what you guys think of it in
the comments down below thank you so much guys for watching now it's time for
the secret surviving show I always like to reply to your questions because it
helps you and also helps all of my other viewers out if you want to be featured
in my next video leave down a question in the comment section with the hashtag
surviving secrets show to be featured today's question is by Javon Jackoby he
says I have a question what was is your hardest and easiest project oh yeah and
why I'd say the hardest project was the previous project which was to design a
theatre if you've been watching my channel for a while you will know I've
spoken about this project in a few videos it was the hardest project not in
terms of the actual building itself but because of some of personal issues that
project to me it's still not finished but I've been trying to let it go
because otherwise I'm just going to torture myself the easiest project that
I've done I think it's the one I'm doing right now because it's basically just
floor plans and quite happy with it I hope you guys are having a great day
you're staying safe and healthy I love you. I am Rasha Shrourou and I'll see you
next time