Get with the 21st century Ian.

You've got photoshop why don't you use it to add some colour to your layout sketches?

I like to see other peoples visualisations of their layouts even more so when they pop them in photoshop an give them that added zing with a bit of colour and texture. You know who you are...

People who work with Photoshop all day find this task easy I expect and finish the task in a few minutes. Whereas I, with my laptop on my lap learning as I go along find it takes ages. By the time I get good at rendering this layout visualization I will have probably finished the layout anyway. So here's an attempt to add a bit of colour to a sketch in attempt to give it that added zing. Apologies for the crudity of the technique but we all have to start somewhere...