Take a photo of your property and design the landscape.
Realtime Landscaping Photo 20102 is used to design landscapes directly on top of a digital photo. Create detailed gardens, add rockery and landscape accessories, create a new driveway, and much more. Realtime Landscaping Photo includes more than 7,100 objects, including 4,100 realistic plants, and more than 1,200 accessories, such as lawn furniture and landscape lights. Plants information includes common name, planting zones, size, and botanical name. Use the included picture editor to touch up photos, create custom plant varieties, or edit imported pictures. Any Windows-compatible printer can be used to print your landscape designs, or create a JPEG to view within an email. Realtime Landscaping Photo is exceptionally easy to use, and requires no prior design experience.
Seemed to be what I was looking for. Tutorials looked easy and images professional.
Cons
Hard to use even after working with someone at the support desk. Decided it was not the right software for us. Photo imaging laced elements typical to what we do as a contractor.
Summary
Decided not to buy.
Tried the Demo for 5 minutes
Sporty-Classic
Pros
It allows you to load you own photo
Cons
time consuming
Summary
Rather than spend time with the computer I just went outside and moved the plants around until I had a satifactory arrangement, if I was digging beds and or had an evening free before my planting day then I would have taken the time but for simple plantings with a small number of plants (16 in my case) is was not worth it.
Very impressed with the results. Easy to use.
cherylannc
Pros
I used this software to get an idea of what I could do to spruce up my rental property (which looks horrible in the winter time because there's no perrenials in the fron flower bed). I was quite impressed with the ease of use and results.
Cons
No cons really, other than the plant varieties are limited, but I'm assuming that's just cause it was a evaluation version.
Summary
Great for my business
JKG10
Pros
It has a clean user interface with good menus and options. Sold many jobs from the final results.
Cons
No cons found so far. Need to buy the full version to get all the plants.
Summary
Great program that does what it says it does.
Great Photo Design Program
larrytruman
Pros
Lets me create designs on my photos quickly. Uses high quality plants.
Cons
No cons. The reviewer who mentioned he couldn't enter house dimensions should try 3D software, not photo software. You don't need dimensions when designing over a photograph lol.
Summary
I am very glad to have found this software after being disappointed with countless other titles.
Couldn't design my own house dimensions - bummer!
tam6530
Pros
3d is cool
Cons
Can't design the home with it's dimensions, no hot tub, rock area etc..
Summary
Unfortunately it wasn't useful for my purpose. Sorry : (