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Rendering a floor plan in photoshop
HOW TO RENDER A PLAN IN PHOTOSHOP
STEP 1
Plot your autocad drawing into pdf with only wall, door and window layers on. Turn off the furniture and text layers.
Open photoshop. Go to FILE -> OPEN (shortcut Ctrl+O) and open your pdf file which you have to photoshop.
STEP 2
Next go to LAYER-> BACKGROUND FROM LAYER. So you will have a white background. Also double click on the lock symbol near Background layer to convert it to Layer 0.
STEP 3
Next, click on MAGIC WAND (shortcut W) and Selection and start selecting the areas you want to color.
STEP 4
After selecting all the areas, go the bottom right corner and select the CREATE NEW FILL OR ADJUSTMENT LAYER -> SOLID COLOR.
STEP 5
If you want to fill any solid pattern, then click on CREATE NEW FILL OR ADJUSTMENT LAYER -> PATTERN.
STEP 6
Add more depth to the color/ pattern by double clicking on the Layer to open LAYER STYLE.
HOW TO ADD/ DEFINE A PATTERN
Open Google chrome and find the image you want to use as a pattern and COPY (Ctrl+C) the image from google and open Photoshop.
Ctrl+N
Edit -> Define Pattern
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