Archive for the 'Architecture Tutorials' Category

Increase Adobe Photoshop Performance And Memory

You might find this tutorial useful if your computer is slow. Here is a simple tutorial on how to increase Adobe Photoshop performance. Method 1 Step 1 – Go to ‘Edit’ Step 2 – Select ‘Preferences’ Step 3 – Select ‘Performance…’ Step 4 – Choose the ‘Performance’ tab Step 5 – Increase the memory. 75% [...]

Capture And Join Multiple High Resolution Google Maps

Have you ever spend hours hitting the ‘print screen’ button on your keyboard followed by the ‘Ctrl + V’ button into Photoshop CS? Trying to stitch individual screen shots together is really time consuming. Try Google Maps Buddy – a downloader and joiner. Best of all, this tool is completely FREE and buggy, but it [...]

Learn How to Write Like an Architect

Truth is, my handwriting sucks. If you happened to have shitty handwriting like mine, watch this video on how to write like an architect by Kung Fu Architect, article found in Architecture My Ninja Please. What’s up with all the oriental names? Food for thought: Someone named Li Chieh, in 1103, wrote a book called [...]

Free Art and Design Magazines, Read Architecture Record Online

Google for ‘free magazine’ and chances are you’ll be bombarded with spammy websites offering free magazines or a monthly subscription fee that is going to burn a hole in your wallet, mygazines.com on the other hand offers none of those annoying features, minimal ads and no subscription fees, what makes it different from the other [...]

Google the Unit Converter and Currency Calculator

My secondary school English teacher told me, “Math will make you mad”. It’s true; one of my classmates went crazy, not because of math alone, probably due to the combination of math and the other three languages (Malay, English and Mandarin/Chinese). The Education system in Malaysia is simply stupid, crazy, dull, too racist, too religious, [...]

Compose Panorama View Automatically in Photoshop

Merging images into a panorama view is a time consuming task, if you’ve been creating panorama views by manually stitching them together using the good old copy and paste technique, then it is time to pick up this ‘old’ technique in photoshop. Its called Photomerge, all you need to do is select the images and [...]

Download AutoCAD Libraries of People and Animals

Courtesy of reader Mariana Abib, here is another set of AutoCAD drawings, yes, those 4 little blue guys with the mushroom house are cartoon characters from the Smurfs, and according to Mariana Abib they’re three apples tall. Do email me your collection of AutoCAD drawings of animals, cars, people, furniture, and trees. [Download AutoCAD People [...]