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This course delivers what it promises. We all need workflows and Oliver has given us a flexible workflow that can be adapted to any project. Because the render can come from any source, the post-processing is adaptable to any BIM authoring and rendering software.
The course was great! This is all the information you need to learn to make excellent, eye-catching, and informative isometric drawings!
I learned helpful shortcuts to speed up my workflow and new techniques to improve my diagrams.
A great course. Perfect for both beginners and those who want to learn a few more tricks. You will learn how to organize your workflow, and you will truly understand how masks, layers, and filters can maximize the potential of your images and renders. Totally worth it, for sure!
I learned tips for rendering in vray and how to organize layers, add backgrounds, vegetation, textures, cutouts, light and so much more in Photoshop to make amazing compositions for our architecture projects.
An excellent course. Good quality and nothing to complain about.
Amazing experience, great for beginners and people who are migrating from a simpler rendering software like Lumion and Twinmotion, highly recommended.
I was very excited when I first saw on Youtube that this course was made, and after taking it I feel more confident to start my first portfolio. Thank you very much for all the lessons, comments, and recommendations.
Another truly great course! Thanks a lot!!!
These lessons are crucial for architects to tell a story of their project, it's both fun and inspiring to learn the lessons and apply them to a real-world project.
This course gives you a start-up for designing your portfolio. Also, what you should and shouldn't avoid. Great course, thank you!
I recommend this course for anyone starting up in the ArchViz world, this is the course you need to break the ice. Every step is detailed and clear.
Easy to use & adds life to illustration.
Very helpful and seamless, which is exactly what I'm looking for in post-production textures.
Every Upstairs course is great. I'll introduce it to my university friends. Thanks a lot!
It's been a good course. I really enjoyed the lessons and the way you taught them. Thank you
Very helpful and simple to use.
The vegetation pack is very helpful because it is simple and beautiful.
Excellent way to enhance your skills and knowledge with purposeful and intentional instructional steps.
I’m so glad I took this course! Before this, I was just trying to figure things out on my own with D5. Now I have way more control over the whole process, really learned a visualization workflow, and my renderings look much more professional. Plus, even though I had some Photoshop knowledge, the tips on post-production were game-changers for me. Oliver made everything easy to follow. Really recommend it!
Good for beginners, with a lot of cool tips, but for someone who already has some knowledge of Photoshop, it may not be enough.
Awesome and I could even further say it is a perfect post-production course. I searched the whole of YouTube for over 5 years to find and learn about post-production architecture, but I could not get what I wanted, and now that I have headed up to Upstairs I am satisfied. Thank you!
This course was exactly what I was looking for. It’s not just about learning the software, it’s way more than that. Lessons that really makes you think differently and express yourself better as an architect. Most courses just show you how to use the tools, but this one actually teaches you how to use them in a way that makes sense. You don’t really find that anywhere else. I finally feel like I can show my ideas the way I always wanted to.
It is an excellent course where you can learn all about Photoshop for architecture. I really appreciated the lesson with the recap of the shortcuts. I try to use them in every program I use, and I found the last lesson very useful. Thank you.
Great content, concise and well-paced.
I loved this course! I learned new things I can use for my career.
The course is very well put together and easy to follow! As a complete beginner to InDesign and someone who will just start their portfolio, the substance, organization, and explanation of the content were really helpful. Thank you, Upstairs!
An outstanding course! Oliver introduces us to the essential tools in InDesign to create a portfolio efficiently, quickly, and easily, without delving too deeply into the software's technicalities. The tips and examples provided throughout the course help you better understand how to present your projects clearly and with the necessary aesthetic appeal. I highly recommend this course 100%. Thank you so much, Oliver!
Excellent course. It teaches a great way to work and organize our projects for a more professional workflow and results. Willing to continue learning from this platform!
I appreciate Oliver´s effort to give us an overall approach to designing clear and neat architecture portfolios. He´s very professional and humble. I strongly recommend his course to other students and professional architects.
Worth it!
Very good course!
I have followed many InDesign courses but this one is the most complete on the market. The information provided and the method of communication is clear and direct. The examples shown are of great help in understanding how to approach the design of an architectural portfolio. The presence of subtitles in different languages is very useful to fully understand each concept. This course should be compulsory in every architecture school to have a clear idea of how to effectively show each project.
Very useful! I learnt a lot of tips in Illustrator and its workflow! I highly recommend it.
Good quality textures. It's the best starting library for a student or an architect that is building their own library. A lot of seamless high-quality textures for a good price.
The Vegetation Pack is really good! The variety of plants, bushes, and trees is amazing, and the multiple styles give me so much flexibility for different types of projects. I liked that they even included a colored version which is ideal for collages, they add so much personality! I decided to go with the premium version and felt that it was well worth it, especially with the brush set for Photoshop. This pack has saved me hours of work!
Great graphics for architectural competition diagrams.
Very thoughtful and informative course. Answered a lot of the common questions I had about architecture portfolios.
For sure, the best course I have taken on post-production.
Outstanding! The way of explaining things is excellent. Feedback on the comments is on time and quick. I highly recommend this course!
Very useful pile of information that will definitely help me make my first job application portfolio.
It contains very good textures.
Great course! Easy to follow, but I got to say, be prepared, it has a lot of info.
Everything about how to create architectural renders in Photoshop from scratch to a level where you can able to do anything. Most importantly one can learn how to categorise the layers which does not disturb the workflow. Totally loved it.
An amazing course where you'll learn how to represent our plans aesthetically.
I took this course for my final project presentation. It was very helpful for me!
It helped me with what I was looking for. The course is very fast, yet focused on the important thing you need to know about Photoshop for Architects, even if you are a beginner. It was good to see the workflow, organization, and specific tips for architecture. I would love to see a course like this for interiors as well, because I think some people would make good use of it.
This course is exceptional and provides tools, tips, and techniques that are systematic and easy to build toward mastery in a logical manner. Foundations are established and excellent workflow habits are encouraged at each step of the process.
I started the course without knowing anything about InDesign, but after taking the classes, it helped me a lot to develop my first Architecture Portfolio. I'm happy with it!
All great exercises from the first one. As the classes go by, general difficulty and detail levels increase, showing various ways of getting to the same result.
Great course! Teaches every essential tips.
This course covers so many questions that I had after struggling with InDesign. There were so many options to see different successful solutions, and I did appreciate the personal reactions to the portfolios shown. Overall, one of the best courses I have taken to date. Thanks!
Excellent course. Very concise and useful, especially the fact that it teaches you the workflow and moves with examples.
Explains everything there is to learn about InDesign from an architectural standpoint and even goes further into giving us tips and tricks on how to improve our portfolios...GREAT COURSE OVERALL!
A complete course, with technical and aesthetic concepts. It not only teaches the needed tools for creating a portfolio, but also explains important composition criteria. All of that explained with examples. Excellent course!
Just like all of the other courses, all shortcuts are shown on the screen and every step is clear. As someone who was migrating from Lumion, having a detailed course like this made this transition so smooth! I wish I had this course sooner. Thanks, Oliver!
After these lessons, I feel confident to start my portfolio!
Thank you for the great course! Complicated workflow, but easy to follow! It really helped me to better understand the tools and software to create a diagram for myself. Plus, the replies to the questions asked are quick and great, so I could easily solve any problems encountered while doing the course!
There's always something new around the corner. You wouldn't know if you don't try and explore how different people work or navigate. I think Oliver has made some crazy effort to condense as much as he could in these courses without overburdening the students going through it.
The course is very detailed and thorough. Its beginner friendly but can also be useful to intermediate/advanced photoshop users. The resources, advice and tips and tricks provided by the instructor will leave those enrolled in the course feeling more confident and inspired to unleash their own creativity. This course was better than I expected, I'd definitely recommend it to anyone interested in ArchViz (with Photoshop, SketchUp, Vray)!
Great quality work.
If you were like me, a person who knew nothing about the importance/power of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, this course will teach you so much. The level of depth and experience of Oliver and the team at Upstairs, is absolutely amazing. Not only do they teach about how to manage computer software, but they also instruct about the profession of architecture, the reason we are even here, to begin with. The amount of work, patience, and drive is self-evident in their work, and I as a student, appreciate it so much. I've also looked around for similar content on the web, and nothing compares to the work at Upstairs.
A complete course that covers all aspects of ArchVIZ at a professional level, with great criteria, excellent taste, and refinement through post-processing. Very useful tips and tricks to achieve a rendering level in the style of VRay and Corona.
Cool classes. Pretty useful shortcuts and tricks that save a lot of time. Great bonus material, like plants, textures, cutouts of people, etc. Very happy.
The course is excellent, even for beginners like myself who have never used this engine before. Oliver thoroughly explains the tools and his process for creating renders. It also includes an explanation of how to use AI as an enhancer, a highly effective tool for adding more realism to images. Additionally, the course covers post-production techniques for both images and videos, which I found extremely useful.
The course is really easy to follow. It will make you able to communicate ideas very easily. It's a must-do. A great weapon to have in your arsenal. I loved it.
It's a well-thought-out and organized course, and I dig the extra tips at the end.
This course 1000000/1000000! So nice and cool, and I'm so happy for the results I got!
Thank you very much for the course - well made. I haven't found anything like it in other places.
Unlike the tutorials on axonometric drawings and renderings, this course mainly focuses on introducing InDesign technology, which accounts for the majority of the content.
The course was great and really helpful, really appreciated the shortcuts that appear on the screen instead of just the audio as you can sometimes mishear things. Happy to have found that course when I'm still at the beginning of my visualization journey.
It's a course that will give you a setup to elevate your floor plans to a new height.
Made me better at my work.
The course was easy to follow. It might be intimidating at first because of the number of steps to achieve an improved effect on an object but it is worth it once you see the end product.
It was a very enjoyable and helpful course! Everything was well explained and to the point so everyone could follow along. I really appreciate the effort put into it. Even the graphics were amazing and creating a more exiting learning environment. It motivate me to create an awesome portfolio and actually be confident about it! Thank you, Oliver and upstairs team!
Wasn’t expecting to get this much value, tbh. Thought I knew a lot already, but this course goes deep into things and dissects D5 in all areas. I liked that the Upstairs team divided the modules very clearly so I focused on the parts that I needed the most first. Super recommended for anyone looking to enhance their visualization skills!
I have bought multiple assets and all of the courses as the content is first rate and top notch. This content is consistently reliable and easy to use. Oliver is an excellent content creator and inspirational. Thanks for great materials at a more than reasonable price point.
This course is a very good starting point for anyone who is not familiar with InDesign. As someone who has used that software a limited amount of times, I feel that this course definitely sets up a great foundation before starting any layouts. I finished watching this course with a good sense of confidence and a clear direction to start exploring ideas of how I want to make my own portfolio. Thank you, Oliver!
Even though I have worked with Indesign for quite some time before, I learned some new practical tips and tricks from this course. Knowing how to work with character styles was especially helpful for me. I also really enjoyed module 6 and the conceptual insights an portfolio reviews that Oliver provided there. The way that Oliver is explaining everything is super easy to understand and fun to watch. Thank you very much for this course, Oliver. I would definetly recommend taking this course as a preparation for a portfolio!
Really great refresher for Arch viz after a bit of a hiatus. It has helped me re-establish a good workflow.