#Free landscape design apps software
#Free landscape design apps free

If someone sees a plant in one of my yard mockups and wants to use it in their own yard design, shoot me a PM and I would be happy to send a masked version of the plant to you (which you can then bring into Gimp, Photoshop, or whatever you use for yard design fun). I could make mine that clean if it was a paid job, but I'm just using plant masking as a way to get a rough idea of what a palm would look like, so my own masking jobs aren't normally that clean. The above examples show excellent masking jobs. That would require effort by whomever manages Palmpedia though. Palmpedia would be the ideal place to store masked versions of palm photos, as they would already be organized by scientific name (i.e., a palm lover would just upload their masked versions of a palm to the same Palmpedia page as the non-masked photos). not sure what the law is on sharing masked plant photos.Ģ) There would need to be a place to upload the masked photos. they just don't want to see the images for sale in a stock photo website.

I assume most of us would have zero issues with fellow palm lovers using a masked version of their plant(s) in their own yard designs. I've actually thought about the possibility of uploading digital version of the palms I've masked, so other people planning out their yards could use them in their own yard designs. But I haven't because.ġ) I don't own rights to the palm photos. It's super-fun, but has a bit of a learning curve. Happy to answer any Gimp/Masking questions if you'd like to try it yourself. I'd need to charge hourly (for graphic design services, as I'm not officially trained in landscape design). But if you want it done well, make changes, etc. If you send me a photo of your yard + internet photos of the plants you want to add, I would be happy to do a 'quick & dirty' mockup for you as a one-time 'freebie' (which you could then play around with in Gimp). I agree it would be ideal if there was a digital library that had lots of exotic palms preloaded. I spent a ton of time masking plants for my own yard designs, but now that I have a library of masked palms, I can drop them into other photos. The good news is that once you have a plant masked, you can reuse it in other designs.

You sometimes also have to use the rubber stamp tool to remove unwanted objects.

#Free landscape design apps software

I haven't seen any sort of software on the market that includes a library of exotic palms, so you would have to do any masking yourself (i.e., download a photo of a plant from the internet, then paint a mask that removes the background). Pinnate palms are a pain to mask, but if you're just trying to get a general idea, you can set your masking brush edge to 'fuzzy' and that will get you pretty close. The hard part (regardless of the software used) is 'masking' the plant(s). Moving & resizing objects in a file that's already 'layered' is easy.

#Free landscape design apps free

then my client downloaded the free Gimp software so he could then play around with the layers as desired. One workflow I've used before for a client that wanted to do his own tinkering was for me to create a design in Photoshop (with each object on its own 'layer). And it's cross-compatible with Photoshop to a degree.

The free 'Gimp' alternative to Photoshop works well. I've been trying to get a landscape design but no one wants to do the design without doing the installation as well. Anyone know of a decent free or relatively cheap app or website for landscape design? I've tried a couple free ones but the plant selection is very limited.