In my 5 years of Architectural course, my presentation skills were always subpar while my classmate's work would come out with beautiful graphical plans and section through photoshop. Since my Photoshop skills were next to null, I focused more on producing work through Powerpoint.
A few days back, I was asked to make photoshop rendered plan by my senior at my Architectural internship firm. Rather than saying no I don’t know how to do it, I opened Skillshare and started learning Photoshop from scratch.
It took 1 hour to watch the video on skillshare and understand photoshop, then 2 hours to plot each individual layer (on autocad) of architectural elements such as walls, sill, flooring, text, trees, landscape, furniture in different pdfs and then I finally put all the PDFs together on Photoshop and started working on it.
It took me 5 hours just to learn and produce my first rendered plan, jumping back and forth through youtube tutorials, skillshare, pinterest ideas and the plan I was working on.
After getting an approval on my ground floor plan render. I was told to make the first floor. Which I surprisingly completed the whole thing in less than 3 hours
Once my renders were approved by my senior, I was asked to work on 5 more sites, that means a total of 10 more photoshop renders.
And since a render would take me 2-3 hours each, I came up with a solution of teaching the other interns working here.
The others interns, like me didn’t know how to use photoshop either. And once they saw my final renders, they were eager to learn it from me. So I sat down with a pen and a book and started writing the steps to make the whole rendered plan. I simplified the whole process of learning, first I taught them all the tools, shortcuts, hotkeys, how to use layers on photoshop, all the important things and then once they had a basic Idea of the tools I showed them how to make the plan using those tools. And then showing them how I downloaded the brushed used, how to get the watercolour effect, how to drop shadows, change colour of anything, etc. It was pretty fun explaining and clarifying the hundreds of doubts they had for me. I was never a person who would teach people things. But this time it seemed a lot of fun.
I always loved looking at poster designs on magazines and wanted to try the same over here. I took one of 
My interest in photoshop has grown and I have tried to learn and make new things with it.
Here I played with the colour palette and the fonts. This wasn't approved by the client because they wanted the colours to POP. And since it was faded in colour the client said they wouldn't notice the poster. So I changed the colours and came up with the one below.
I came up with these last week and I cant wait to explore what Photoshop and other software have to offer. And as I explore, my amateur self will keep updating you all with my progress. Until then see you all on my next post.