Photoshop

Photoshop files for architectural presentation: brush sets, actions, layered sheet templates, diagram kits and post-production tools built for plans, sections and renders rather than photographs.

Photoshop is where most architectural drawings are finished, and the work is mostly about restraint. A rendered plan reads when the hierarchy survives: the cut stays heaviest, the ground stays quiet, the entourage supports the drawing instead of competing with it. Every brush and action here is meant to serve that hierarchy, not to decorate over it.

Layer structure decides whether a sheet is editable a week later. Keep the line work above the colour, keep shadows on their own multiply layer, and use masks instead of erasing — the same discipline that makes a CAD file survive also makes a PSD survive.

Our guides to post-production without plugins, free versus paid brushes and isometric diagrams in Photoshop go through the workflow.