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. 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. 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.

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