Blueprint Photoshop

[Alarico Boyett]

Createa new layer and drag it below the main image layer. Fill this layer with a dark blue, such as #051340. Change the blending mode of the image layer to Screen to render the black background transaprent, leaving just the white outline against the blue background.

In order to add a grid to the blueprint, we first need to make a pattern swatch. Create a new document at around 80x80px in size. This size may vary depending on the scale of your document. Draw a quick marquee over your image to represent a grid square and note the size.

Close the document and return to the blueprint effect. Create a new layer and select the Fill tool. Change the dropdown menu in the header from Foreground to Pattern, then choose the newly created swatch. Click anywhere on the canvas to apply it to the layer.

Use the marquee tool to draw a selection around the main image that lines up perfectly with the grid pattern. Right click and select Stroke, then enter 5px in the options, along with the colour white and Center.

Add a layer mask to this grid pattern layer. Hold the ALT ley while clicking the mask to edit its contents. Download and open one of my Dust and Scratches Textures, then paste it directly into the mask. Scale and rotate it to fit.

Click with the Selection tool to escape from the mask editing mode back to the main document, then with the mask still selected, press CMD+L to open the Levels. Move the sliders towards the right to boost the contrast to the extreme, then move the white Output Levels slider to the left to bring back the grid pattern until it appears subtly over the image.

Finish the effect off with a dirty paper texture, like one of the royalty-free paper textures from Bashcorpo. Paste it into the document, rotate and resize, then desaturate and Invert the paper texture image.

This tutorial is right up my alley. I am a residential designer and just started writing blog posts about the residential design process. This technique will be a great option for my post featured image. Thank you very much.

Chris,

Tried this out when I got home today. Took a bit longer than I had hoped, but it turned out great! Thanks for sharing this! I am going to post in on my Instagram page for people to check out. If you would like to check it out, my Instagram page is oldestyle_design_co

Thank you so much! This is such a wonderful tutorial, very well explained and easy to follow. You know when you need something, and it comes to you in just the right time? This tutorial was that to me, so thank you so much for taking the time to do it!

Here is a B&W "blueprint" at low resolution. The scanning process created buff colored bars and added scattered buff color in what should be white areas. This was a very clean print to begin with. The buff coloring here and in the other image is entirely the result of the scanning process and does not appear in the originals.

This is an beautiful blueprint. (The white "folds") in the corners are on the original. The scanner did not distort the folds in color but it would be great to be able to get rid of them. I would then want to convert this to B&W which would mean transforming the various shades of blue to white.

This is a blue on white blueprint. As with all the white backgrounds, the scanning process creates buff at the folds and in the white areas. The original has some poor quality at the right with blue smearing. It would be great to get rid of that.

Install the blueprint as is. For blueprint types that do not require any configuration, this is the only option. For blueprint types that need configuration, you can optionally choose to install the blueprint now and configure it later. Click Install as is.

For more information, see Configure a blueprint.

When the installation is complete, a message displays a list of the specific objects (such as roles, teams, or groups) that were successfully installed with the blueprint and any objects that failed to install.

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