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I am a landscape gardener, and I am looking for some way to take pictures of a clients garden, upload them to my laptop then sit with the client and re-design the pictures with input from the client. Possibly a graphics tablet? photoshop? touch sensitive screen ? so I can draw straight onto the digital images. It would be good if there was a package available that provided different options of pre made objects such as fencing, block paving, turf, decking, shrubs which could be placed onto the photograph to show what the finished garden would look like. I have seen a kitchen designer use something similar where he took a picture of the clients kitchen, then showed her what it would look like with the new kitchen fitted.
Any ideas
Thanks

There are Computer-Aided Design (CAD) programs that are designed to do exactly what you want and I am sure that using a graphics tablet would the the easiest and most accurate way to use it if you are not well versed in using the touch pad on your notebook.

Here are a few links to such programs:

http://www.dynascape.com/

http://www.cadopolis.com/autocad_addons/ EZ-Plant_AutoCAD-Software.shtml

http://www.prolandscape.com/

This should get you started ...

Photoshop while a powerful program is designed for shooters (photographers), pre-press tech's and post production wizards.

2008-08-06 20:48:30 by jeff m

Step by step pictures of how to design and build an outdoor living space or garden.

I would like to find the right plants for my garden

It all depends on the weather of place where you live + your personal choice..........Like if you like flowers, vegetables, shrubs, big trees.........etc. !!
Make your mind that what exactly you want and than search on the net accordingly.

2006-10-07 00:30:35 by Amy G

Price: $79.99 $34.60

Assign costs for materials, descriptions, quantities, unit costs, and more
Design in 2D and 3D or both simultaneously
Water feature tools let you easily create various shaped ponds and water features or design a lake-front home

I'm realizing that I'm not very good at designing our flower garden and I thought maybe I could get some help online. I'm working with annual flowers right now. I did a search and found a couple of sites, but I'm looking for something simple - maybe with pictures and simple information. Any helpful sites would be appreciated. Thanks.

I personally think the best rules in design are as few as possible. Just plant and have fun! That being said they teach us master gardeners a few basic rules:

1-Keep it simple.
2-Plan for low maintenance.
3-Work from an overall plan (I often violate this)
4-Call Miss Dig (A free service in Michigan - it's to locate buried power lines.)
5-Don't make beds too narrow.
6-Don't plant trees too close to the house or other plants.
7- Make sure you get plants which do well in your climate and region.

With that in mind, here's some sites:

2007-07-08 15:08:19 by sharbysyd

Price: $19.95

I was looking at books and Barnes and Noble and there were a few pictures I liked but that was the only thing I liked in the whole book. So I was hoping you guys could help me out by either scanning the pictures from your books and emailing them to me or by giving me link to a website where they are.

The books are:
Sunset Pool and Spa: Page 150 gray and white house
Sunset Big Book of Garden Design: Page 106 - 107 A Family Garden
Pool Scaping: Page 171 Spa with waterfall
Page 137 Water slide
I tried that first and my library is very out of date with very little available on this topic, but thank you for the suggestion.

How about trying the library first...

EDIT: You can also see if they can get the chitecture-books/">book from another library, they can check who has it and get it for you. FYI
Don't need the thumbs down people, just trying to help. :)

2008-04-04 15:23:17 by sarab.cook

help to understand how and what to analize from an art picture

em............are you gonna design or analize someone's design?a bit not understanding!!

2007-02-01 11:00:06 by Martin W