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Archicad Drawings into photoshop

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:19:59 GMT

Hello all,
We keep trying to finish Archicad drawings in Photoshop, but when we export the drawings from Archicad as any type of file .pdf, jpeg, psd. etc. the actually drawing becomes distorted and unusable. what format should we use to tranfer info. We are trying to colour up the drawings using photoshop.

Re: Archicad Drawings into photoshop

Djordje — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:51:37 GMT

PDF

Re: Archicad Drawings into photoshop

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:10:54 GMT

William wrote:
Hello all,
We keep trying to finish Archicad drawings in Photoshop, but when we export the drawings from Archicad as any type of file .pdf, jpeg, psd. etc. the actually drawing becomes distorted and unusable. what format should we use to tranfer info. We are trying to colour up the drawings using photoshop.

We use Macs OSX 10.4 with Archicad 11- 1040 and Photoshop C2

Re: Archicad Drawings into photoshop

__archiben — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:40:43 GMT

William wrote:
We use Macs OSX 10.4 with Archicad 11- 1040 and Photoshop C2

as djordje said - print or export as PDF from your publisher and open in photoshop. PDF preserves the vector graphics or drawing elements so you won't get the 'distortion' you're experiencing with pixel-based formats . . .

but you said that you tried PDF . . ? are you sure it was distorting, or just the way photoshop was displaying it on screen?

~/archiben

Re: Archicad Drawings into photoshop

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:11:18 GMT

Thankyou for kind suggestions. We often try by publishing the Archicad drawing in .PDF but when the .PDF is opened and printed off in Photoshop C2 the line quality (from drawings drawn in Archicad) drops badly. i.e the lines become very faint, as if there is no line weight! is this normal? or is there away around this, as obviously the Architectural drawing is the main element, bringing it into Photoshop is just to colour it up.

MAC G5
Archicad 11 -1040 INT Full
Photoshop C2

Re: Archicad Drawings into photoshop

Thomas Holm — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:13:15 GMT

Normally, Photoshop rasterizes the PDF - it becomes a pixel image like any other. To preserve its sharpness you have to rasterize it at the final size, that is no resizing after you've included the pdf into the Photoshop image. Size the photoshop file before you insert the PDF!

Re: Archicad Drawings into photoshop

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:50:10 GMT

Open it in Photoshop at 600 dpi. I hope you will like it!

Re: Archicad Drawings into photoshop

Eduardo Rolon — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:43:11 GMT

And remember to uncheck Antialias to stop Photoshop from blurring the lines.