Basic Photoshop: Making Small House

For the first class of Digital Design Photoshop, we practiced making a small house using basic tools and shapes.

The first step is to create the workspace/canvas size. The canvas size that we used is 600 pixels x 400 pixels. Next, we should select the resolution. The suitable resolution for screen is 72-96 pixels/inch while for printing it should be around 300-150 pixels/inch.

We also learned several shortcuts such as:

b - brush

x - to switch between background and foreground

f - to switch between fullscreen and window

0 - to fit to screen

The second step is to create the background color for the sky

To color the whole canvas, I used the shortcut ctrl backspace

Then I create the grass and wall using the rectangle tool and fill it with color and no stroke.

For the pathway, I also used the rectangle tool and edited it to make the right perspective by

Edit > Transform > Distort . Then adjust it to the right shape.

To make the door I used the rectangle tool too.

I made a rectangle for the roof using the rectangle tool. Using the distort tool, I edited it to create a trapezium, making it more like a roof shape.

I added a drop shadow effect to make it look like the roof is on top of the wall.

Lastly, create a window by using the rectangle tool and adding a stroke with a 1pt weight to create its frame.

Create another window by duplicating the "window layer".