Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Overview:
Place a photo sky as the background; add entourage elements; create lighting ef-
fects in Photoshop.
To complete his architectural rendering created with Illustrator's perspective grid,
Pete Maric inserted a photo background, added scenic “entourage” elements, and
manually created lighting effects in Photoshop.
1 Replacing the sky background image and importing entourage elements.
Maric decided to
change the mood of the illustration by replacing the background sky image to reflect
a dusk setting. In Illustrator, Maric created a new bottom layer and chose File> Place
to choose a JPG of a sunset that he photographed and transformed with Corel
Painter. Maric relies heavily on a library of entourage elements (cars, people, trees,
bushes, etc.) to add interest to his illustrations. After importing a couple of his own
trees, Maric opened Go Media's Architectural Elements Vector Pack and chose a
bush and a foreground tree detail to copy and paste into his rendering. He sampled
the grass color with the Eyedropper tool, then filled each bush with that color by
holding Option/Alt and clicking. To populate the scene he duplicated each bush indi-
vidually by holding Option/Alt while dragging it into place, using the bounding box
to scale when needed.
1
Sky background image created in Corel Painter
