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Anonymous
January 22, 2014
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What is the best product for interior designers?

  • January 22, 2014
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Have not purchased a Photoshop product yet. Which one is best for interior designers? Tx

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    Correct answer John Waller

    There's no single answer. Depends on what you want to do with the software and what you want the software to do.

    Your choice: Photoshop Elements or Photoshop or Creative Cloud or Photoshop/Lightroom bundle.

    Do you prefer to own the software (perpetual license) or subscribe and pay a monthly fee (Creative Cloud)?

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    roy88528456
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    April 11, 2017

    Hi,

    I think before getting into Photoshop you need first an interior design software to render your draft designs. You can use 3D Studio Max, Blender or Sketchup. Or use a web-based interior design software like: InnoPlanner, Homestyler or Planner5d.

    Afterwards you can proceed to Photoshop to refine your rendering image into a final photorealistic representation.

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      imfreeze95
      Participant
      April 5, 2020

      Thank you I appreciate it

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      cypmcd
      Participant
      August 17, 2016

      I am studying interior design and I find the best products to use are photoshop/illustrator (for custom furniture design), indesign (For client mood boards etc) and archicad 19 for rendering perspective digital drawings!

      hope this helps

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        imfreeze95
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        April 5, 2020

        Thank you 

        the_wine_snob
        the_wine_snob
        Inspiring
        January 22, 2014

        In addition to John's suggestions, I would also look into Adobe Illustrator.

        Because it's a Vector Art program, when you have, say your furniture in Plan View, you can Scale them up, or down, while retaining sharpness. You can also design (or possibly buy), common furniture art, to be reused in many AI documents.

        In several CC (Creative Cloud) suites, AI is included, but check it out first.

        Good luck,

        Hunt

          Trevor.Dennis
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          Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          January 22, 2014

          Or maybe look at one of those 3D packages.  It's a competitive world, and impressing the client with a virtual walk-through of the revamped environment might be the difference between you, and someone else getting the work. 

          Home Styler comes from the same people who make Autocad, which is as good a recommendation as you can get.  I know nothing about it, but it says it's free!

          http://usa.autodesk.com/homestyler/

          But from an Adobe products point of view.  Photoshop for sure IMHO.  You can use it in a similar way to an airbrush artists adding shading and textures, and light and shadow. 

          Something else I'd definitely think about, is an Interior Design forum.  Flickr has thousands of such groups (it calls them Pools now), and you can ask the people already doing the same thing

          http://www.flickr.com/groups/interior/

          John Waller
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          John WallerCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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          January 22, 2014

          There's no single answer. Depends on what you want to do with the software and what you want the software to do.

          Your choice: Photoshop Elements or Photoshop or Creative Cloud or Photoshop/Lightroom bundle.

          Do you prefer to own the software (perpetual license) or subscribe and pay a monthly fee (Creative Cloud)?

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