The Essentials of Photoshop For Industrial Designers

Guiding you from quick sketches to advanced renderings.

You are a creative mind, but your rendering skills don’t reflect the potential of your ideas.

Your renderings have little or no emotional appeal and lack details
You don’t know where to start, how to set the lights, or represent the volumes accurately
You don't know the tips and tricks that can make you faster and more precise, the differences that make a difference. 🙂
After watching hours of videos, you still can't use Photoshop properly 🙁

In reality, creating quality renderings simply requires using the correct fundamentals, a workflow applied to product design... and a few tips ; )

Master the main fundamentals of light, shadow and composition which are constantly used by digital artists, and photographers in order to express your ideas accurately and in an engaging way.
Apply a specific, high-performance workflow based on well-defined actions makes the process efficient, allowing you to produce more and have free time for other activities.
Prepare renderings to make your portfolio stand out, communicate your ideas more easily, and sell your projects to a board of investors.
Evolve quicker to become a more well-rounded designer that can support the team in every aspect of the design process.

Create Photoshop Renderings that You Can be Proud of.

Guiding you from quick sketches to advanced renderings.

1/ Understand the logic behind forms, lighting, shadows, and every pro-tip to apply them.

We can always learn a recipe by heart, or understand the logic behind things. The obvious answer is that understanding how things work, allows us to become proactive: explore, try, combine and dare to test things that excite ourselves and make us proud of our own progress. Building solid knowledge starts with mastering the basics, step by step.
Learn how to set a light source so that forms and lights make a real difference.
Understand how to showcase materials with high fidelity through essential specular and diffuse reflections.
Learn how to create matte and glossy materials and how you can apply these effects on all types of volume and forms, from simple rounded to flat and organic surfaces.
Understand the behavior of the light on any surface or volumes, then its impact on the shadow.
Boost your renderings with pro-tips such as placing 2 and 3 lights or even different color sources to create atmosphere and depth in your image.
Master all fundamentals, and combine it with a high-performance workflow, allowing you to save time so that you can focus on what matters, free brain space to design and create.

2/ From fast sketches to precise renderings: The complete guide to digital communication.

If you have little to no experience sketching digitally this class will guide you through the necessary steps to become familiar with the relevant Photoshop tools which are constantly used in the industry.
If you have experience, this is a great way to go back and reinforce the basics, sharpen your skills and facilitate your daily work thanks to learning an advanced workflow.
Implement the typical details of the industry (surface treatments, part lines, buttons, embossed logos, material differentiation, patterns, etc...)
Learn how to go from glossy to matte, from clear to opaque, as well as recreating any materials such as plastics, wood, aluminum and adapt to all different types of materials.
Create stunning compositions and present your ideas through accurate renderings.

3/ Save up to 75% of your time through a simple and highly efficient workflow

Discover how to apply a workflow to enhance your productivity, deliver your work on time, without stress, and with higher quality.
Handle all types of renderings in less than an hour... while maintaining high quality.
Learn a pro organization and tools that can keep your files clean and easy to use while progressing through the typical design process and client changes (without losing your mind...).
Presenting the concepts of your ideas in the Portfolio in a clear and impressive way greatly enhances yourchances in the face of the opportunities that the industry offers.
Improve your render quality and be accurate with material tolerances, gaps, part line dimensions and filets according to material types and production processes
Keep your files light, so they are easy to use, modify and when needed

Yes, I want to learn Photoshop Sketching & take my Renderings to the next level.

Guiding you from quick sketches to advanced renderings.

Hi, I'm Leandro!

Hello, I’m Leandro Trovati. A professional with over 20 years of experience working for top brands like Honda, General Motors, and PSA studios (Peugeot, Citroën), and designing cars and motorcycles for local and global markets.

All the knowledge that I’m going to share with you, I’ve learned it in the industry. It is also the result of self-taught studies about art, design, photography, a few experiences that went wrong, and many other successful ones.

For many years, I’ve been dedicating my efforts to sharing this experience so that I can help students to make their dreams come true and transform their lives.