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Unlike the tutorials on axonometric drawings and renderings, this course mainly focuses on introducing InDesign technology, which accounts for the majority of the content.
I like how the majority of the videos in each module are broken down into consumable information and prepare you for creating your portfolio. I also appreciate the examples of others' work in portfolios and on different styles to explore. I would like to emphasize starting your portfolio after watching a couple of videos in the module, since that is what I did every time I completed one of them. As a beginner on starting my architecture portfolio, I understood more than when I first began the course and especially from my four years in university, so it's well worth it!
Great course, with a lot of details on how to use InDesign specifically for portfolios. Usually, online courses talk a lot about stuff you never use and don't even need to know. There are a lot of tips on how to build a portfolio and what to focus on as well.
A well refined course that lets you master D5 in a short period of time.
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.
Excellent and easy to use, it helped me with my axonometric diagrams for my Masters Thesis and the feedback from my professors were exceptional!
What I appreciated about the course instructor was that he was generous enough to provide an additional module that delved into portfolios, besides the course being about the InDesign software. Moreover, it was very practical in terms of providing actual examples of selected portfolios online.
Really good for students who are approaching architectural visualization for the first time!
The post-production course taught me so many skills and tricks in Photoshop and has allowed me to develop an efficient workflow when it comes to post-production. The course also comes with additional resources that you can use for your own projects. If you're an architecture student, I can't recommend this course enough!
An amazing course where you'll learn how to represent our plans aesthetically.
Very thoughtful and informative course. Answered a lot of the common questions I had about architecture portfolios.
Made me better at my work.
An excellent course. Good quality and nothing to complain about.
Excellent course!
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!
It was a pleasure to take this course. The content, the instructor, and the methodology have been invaluable in my growth as an architectural visualizer.
Great content, concise and well-paced.
Loved the course. Very well explained and had a lot of great tips & tricks. I've been using photoshop for years and still learned a lot. Thanks!
I was really skeptical because I've tried like a million Notion templates and always gave up after a week because they were too complicated. This one is different because it's made for architecture. It's simple enough that I actually kept using it, and the course made setup so easy, I was done in one afternoon. I use it every single day now for studio, my deadlines, all my class notes, even stuff outside of school but that is related to my course. The fact that everything connects is what got me. Thank you so much Gui and the Upstairs team!
It's been a good course. I really enjoyed the lessons and the way you taught them. Thank you
I learned helpful shortcuts to speed up my workflow and new techniques to improve my diagrams.
Every Upstairs course is great. I'll introduce it to my university friends. Thanks a lot!
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.
This is an excellent course. Everything is clearly explained. You could offer the same course format for the facades and the other rendering elements.
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.
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!
I'm just finishing this course up now and honestly it's completely worth the money. It's so comprehensive and the attention to detail is fantastic. I tried another D5 course that was $40 or something and it was so bad that I didn't even finish it. This course is the real deal.
This is an excellent course for undergraduate students studying architecture. It teaches you how to effectively make drawings for your various projects.
The most helpful course for Adobe photoshop post production!! You taught me many great shortcuts to make my life easier for PS workflow, thanks Oliver!
If you are looking for something that will make you improve your diagrams representation in a huge way, this course is exactly what you are looking for, and more. Oliver is an excellent architect and teacher. This course is perfect! It's made for architects, it's excellent and well-structured. He's leading you step by step so you will never have doubts at each point. It'll blow your mind with all the lessons.
For sure, the best course I have taken on post-production.
Good for beginners, with a lot of cool tips, but for someone who already has some knowledge of Photoshop, it may not be enough.
Great course! Teaches every essential tips.
This course is all you need to learn architectural visualization. Knowing Oliver through his YouTube channel for a long time, going into this course my expectations were high, but this course exceeded way beyond all of my expectations. This course teaches you how D5 combined with Photoshop could be a powerful way of expressing your ideas and stories to the world. Oliver's teaching skills and with the interactive comments and detailed feedback from him for all my queries were helpful in learning the subtle ways to make my renders realistic.
Very well-rounded course that was very easy to understand and follow along with. My only suggestion would be to potentially create tutorials with other free softwares, like TwinMotion or other software that students get free access to and can properly utilize, as shown in your tutorials. Still appreciate the content and look forward to learning in future courses!
Not a detailed course like the isometric course he has, but it teaches you how to learn from other portfolios and make wise design decisions. This course is more about portfolio making than learning to use InDesign, so for the most part, InDesign felt irrelevant.
Great course.
You can reach a professional level, learn a lot of new visualization skills, and have fun at the same time. Highly recommended!!!
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.
I first heard about D5 through Upstairs, so I was anxiously awaiting this course. And I must say that it exceeded my expectations! The course guides you from key concepts—like applying materials with realism, and creating nice surroundings - but also, more experienced users will be pleased to find out about UV mapping and AI tools!!! Plus, not to mention the post-production module that provides that crucial touch that makes a significant difference in your final results. A big THANK YOU to the Upstairs team!
The course covers the basics of InDesign in a way that is easy to understand. I also found it very helpful to see other examples of portfolios and see how the tips given during the lessons could be applied to my own portfolio. Overall, great course!
The course is good for anyone's work related to the architecture industry. Diagrams may seem additional and not as important compared to 3D archviz, but as a good designer, the diagram is essential to show your ideas and how the design was developed. This course helped me add the quality of presentation report and slides to my client. I really enjoy it and hope Upstairs will come out with more courses... maybe the next one will be an animated diagram? Cross fingers.
I stopped losing my notes and more importantly I feel like now I have a place to concentrate everything. Wish I had this in first year.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Isometric Diagram Masterclass. The course content was clear, well-organized, and provided a solid foundation for both beginners and more advanced learners. The step-by-step approach, combined with real-world examples, made the complex concepts much easier to grasp. I especially appreciated the focus on practical applications, as it helped me see how these skills could be applied in professional settings. The visual aids and resources were top-notch, but perhaps more interactive exercises or assessments could further reinforce the concepts. Overall, this masterclass has significantly improved my understanding of isometric diagrams, and I look forward to more courses from Learn Upstairs!
I learned a lot from this course. Thank you!
A great course where even experienced software users can learn something. The course is well structured and easy to follow, very worth it for the price!
Really useful course for all levels. I used D5 Render for 1 year in Architecture School before enrolling in this course, which meant I had a pretty good understanding of the software. But this course helped me integrate all the knowledge I had and structure it into a correct and efficient workflow. I finished the course before entering a local firm, and it helped me a lot since I was the only person in charge of 3D images. The short and concise lessons are really useful for students and professionals who use their spare time to learn. Would (and effectively did) recommend it to peers.
Been using it primarily for AutoCAD and very happy with the friendly look it adds to my plans.
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!
I found everything I needed to create a great portfolio!
Very well-structured course from which the information is easily learned and absorbed immediately upon completion.
This course 1000000/1000000! So nice and cool, and I'm so happy for the results I got!
This course was exactly what I was looking for to begin learning Photoshop! I am currently an architecture student and was not too good at Photoshop. Still, I feel a lot more confident in my ability to create renderings using Photoshop for class projects and my work-study!
This Upstairs Pack has been a game-changer in my architectural workflow. It saves me hours of searching for high-quality, diverse cutouts and allows me to focus on the design itself. The variety of figures, especially the inclusion of people from different cultural and social contexts, helps me create more inclusive and contextually rich visualizations. I highly recommend it to architects, students, and urban designers looking to enhance the storytelling aspect of their design presentations.
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!
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.
Great quality work.
Ideal for students!
Perfect course for beginners like me. I learned a lot! Really worth it. Thank you!
A brilliant course worth its price. Teaching was effective and you learn a lot especially if you are a beginner. The course pace isn't too fast, meaning beginners won't fall behind. By the end, you will be able to use the techniques in this case study in your own designs.
High-quality assets with great variety.
Amazing course, taught me many new stuff although I have been using Photoshop for a while.
I would really like to thank the tutor and his entire team for creating this course. I have always struggled with creating interesting looking architectural plans in the past, but never could understand where to begin from. With this course, I did indeed learn a lot of new techniques regarding smart moves through different software, a non-destructive workflow and most importantly 'Architectural Presentation Style'. Lessons that were made for architects! Just a few & simple edits to a CAD plan can really improve your drawing. I think that subtlety is the key here. Thank you again. Cheers!
I found the course very concise and to the point! It sort of demystified Photoshop for me, and I feel better about tackling a new image!
The course was great! In a few minutes, you can significantly improve your post-production skills. It's full of tips that will make your workflow faster. Awesome. I loved it!
Amazing experience, great for beginners and people who are migrating from a simpler rendering software like Lumion and Twinmotion, highly recommended.
Thank you for the course. In my opinion, it was well structured, almost all the points you tackled were explained thoroughly, and your pace was appropriate for absolute beginners (the video playback speed can be increased if people want a faster pace which is a nice feature). The course tackled the most famous types of diagrams and gave ample inspiration sources which is also a very good point.
Oliver did an amazing job walking us through his process with creating diagrams. He was clear and reinforced important details throughout the course, making sure to help build good habits. His emphasis on "big moves" really helped to think about the diagram creation process as a bite sized problem. I would recommend people invest in this course because if you are a student learning how to represent your ideas, the skills available in this course will help you.
Great content and really well presented! The videos were clear, concise, and enjoyable to watch. I'm a practicing architect and I learned many new tips & tricks that I'll be incorporating into my workflow. Thanks again!
A really good course with great explanations and amazing quality results.
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.
Thank you a lot, Oliver, for this course! It's very simple and brilliant at the same time.
I got the bundle with all Upstairs Packs and it is one of the best investments I’ve made as an architect. It includes everything I need for my drawings, collages, and illustrations (scale figures, textures, vegetation, and even isometric objects). The variety and quality are outstanding, and the files work across all my software. I’ve been able to improve my presentations and even speed up my workflow significantly. Thank you Upstairs for making these resources available to us! I learned so much from you on Youtube.
It really improved my Photoshop and post-production skills to a whole new level! I 100% recommend this course.
Very in-depth course that will improve all of your plans. Teaches the basics like patterns, shadows, fills & Ai + Ps skills, all the way through to tiny details. All of which help your plans emphisise the architecture in a clear, readable way.
Perfect for understanding Photoshop's workflow and tools if you've never used it before, just like me.
The vegetation pack is very helpful because it is simple and beautiful.
Perfect for competitions.
I really liked this course. It was useful and to the point. I highly recommend it.
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!