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DS|Color: The Coloring module that works with DS|Design
Show your design's true colors.
Once you see how quickly, easily and beautifully DynaSCAPE Color transforms your drawings, you'll wonder how you ever presented projects without it.
DynaSCAPE is pleased to announce the release of DynaSCAPE Color, the exciting new landscape software module that gives you the ability to create beautiful full color versions of your landscape design drawings in a fraction of the time that it takes to color them by hand or with 3rd party software.
Once you see how quickly, easily and beautifully DynaSCAPE Color transforms your drawings, you'll wonder how you ever presented projects without it.
DynaSCAPE is pleased to announce the release of DynaSCAPE Color, the exciting new landscape software module that gives you the ability to create beautiful full color versions of your landscape design drawings in a fraction of the time that it takes to color them by hand or with 3rd party software.
There's color, and then there's Color
DynaSCAPE Color doesn't just add solid color fills to certain shapes! This is an advanced tool that lets you add an entire spectrum of subtle colorings, textures, opacities and shadings to any DynaSCAPE design with just a few series of mouse-clicks. Like DynaSCAPE Design itself, Color again raises the bar on landscape design drawing excellence, injecting a new level of professionalism and a new dimension of detail to your designs that must be seen to be fully appreciated.
DynaSCAPE Color doesn't just add solid color fills to certain shapes! This is an advanced tool that lets you add an entire spectrum of subtle colorings, textures, opacities and shadings to any DynaSCAPE design with just a few series of mouse-clicks. Like DynaSCAPE Design itself, Color again raises the bar on landscape design drawing excellence, injecting a new level of professionalism and a new dimension of detail to your designs that must be seen to be fully appreciated.
Save time, sell more
By significantly reducing the amount of time required to add a professional hand-colored appearance to your DynaSCAPE drawings, DynaSCAPE Color lets you produce more full-color drawings for your clients, helping you to sell more of your designs.
Follow the links on the right side of this page, or click the "Next" link below, to learn more about DynaSCAPE Color's many features and benefits.
By significantly reducing the amount of time required to add a professional hand-colored appearance to your DynaSCAPE drawings, DynaSCAPE Color lets you produce more full-color drawings for your clients, helping you to sell more of your designs.
Follow the links on the right side of this page, or click the "Next" link below, to learn more about DynaSCAPE Color's many features and benefits.
DS|Color Features in Detail
DynaSCAPE Color is the module for our professional landscape design software that lets you add beautiful colors, shadings and opacities to your DynaSCAPE Design drawings. Here are some of the module’s main features:
Easy to learn
DynaSCAPE Color was designed for the busy landscape designer who needs to be able to achieve professional results quickly with an intuitive coloring tool that doesn't require a steep learning curve. With its DynaSCAPE Design-like interface and controls, Color lets you start coloring your landscape designs right away.
DynaSCAPE Color was designed for the busy landscape designer who needs to be able to achieve professional results quickly with an intuitive coloring tool that doesn't require a steep learning curve. With its DynaSCAPE Design-like interface and controls, Color lets you start coloring your landscape designs right away.
Easy to use
Built with the latest Windows Presentation Foundation technology, DynaSCAPE Color's simple and clear interface turns what might otherwise be a frustrating chore into a very pleasant and rewarding user experience. The Color interface was deliberately designed to be extremely simple and streamlined, using concepts that are already familiar to DynaSCAPE users to make the software's functions easily discoverable through experience.
Built with the latest Windows Presentation Foundation technology, DynaSCAPE Color's simple and clear interface turns what might otherwise be a frustrating chore into a very pleasant and rewarding user experience. The Color interface was deliberately designed to be extremely simple and streamlined, using concepts that are already familiar to DynaSCAPE users to make the software's functions easily discoverable through experience.
Creates stunning output
The last thing you want on a design that looks hand-drawn is coloring that looks computer-generated. We went out of our way to ensure that all of Color's output looks as impressively hand-crafted as the DynaSCAPE drawings that it colors. We took the best hand-colored examples in the industry and built software that lets you convincingly – and easily – recreate that hand-crafted appearance.
The last thing you want on a design that looks hand-drawn is coloring that looks computer-generated. We went out of our way to ensure that all of Color's output looks as impressively hand-crafted as the DynaSCAPE drawings that it colors. We took the best hand-colored examples in the industry and built software that lets you convincingly – and easily – recreate that hand-crafted appearance.
3 main styles to choose from
DynaSCAPE Color comes with three styles of coloring built right into the program. There's the traditional Pencil Crayon style, the equally popular Marker Hybrid style, and a new style we're calling California Contemporary that shows off how this powerful tool can take your design ideas in new creative directions.
DynaSCAPE Color comes with three styles of coloring built right into the program. There's the traditional Pencil Crayon style, the equally popular Marker Hybrid style, and a new style we're calling California Contemporary that shows off how this powerful tool can take your design ideas in new creative directions.
Color-safe choices
Not everyone studies color wheels and color theory, but everyone wants to produce beautiful results. Our own color experts (who do in fact know their color wheels and theories!) have filled DynaSCAPE Color's palettes with hues that go well together no matter how they're combined. Whether you have a good eye for color harmony or not, with DynaSCAPE Color you can rest assured that you won't ever be producing designs with any incongruous color combinations that are jarring to the eye.
Not everyone studies color wheels and color theory, but everyone wants to produce beautiful results. Our own color experts (who do in fact know their color wheels and theories!) have filled DynaSCAPE Color's palettes with hues that go well together no matter how they're combined. Whether you have a good eye for color harmony or not, with DynaSCAPE Color you can rest assured that you won't ever be producing designs with any incongruous color combinations that are jarring to the eye.
Advanced shading effects
One of the subtleties that makes the best colored drawings so attractive is the use of shadows and shading, which adds the hint of a third dimension to your landscape designs. Not only is this pleasing to look at, but it also imparts important information about the positioning hierarchy of the elements in your gardens and landscapes.
One of the subtleties that makes the best colored drawings so attractive is the use of shadows and shading, which adds the hint of a third dimension to your landscape designs. Not only is this pleasing to look at, but it also imparts important information about the positioning hierarchy of the elements in your gardens and landscapes.
Accurate and attractive textures
Coloring an entire area of paving stones or deck lumber by hand is tedious. DynaSCAPE Color makes it easy to add realistic textures to any area of your drawing with a few simple clicks.
Coloring an entire area of paving stones or deck lumber by hand is tedious. DynaSCAPE Color makes it easy to add realistic textures to any area of your drawing with a few simple clicks.
The added subtlety of transparencies
DynaSCAPE Color also makes it easy for you to add a controllable degree of transparency to any of the colors on your drawing. This not only adds a professional touch to the appearance of your landscape design, but also helps you to reveal details underneath certain items in your landscape – for example, the foliage beneath a tree canopy – that would otherwise be hidden by solid colors.
DynaSCAPE Color also makes it easy for you to add a controllable degree of transparency to any of the colors on your drawing. This not only adds a professional touch to the appearance of your landscape design, but also helps you to reveal details underneath certain items in your landscape – for example, the foliage beneath a tree canopy – that would otherwise be hidden by solid colors.
Pre-loaded with over 675 color swatches
Each of the styles in DynaSCAPE Color has hundreds of swatches for you to choose from. Organized into the categories that are most useful to you, such as Trees, Shrubs, Paving Stones and so on, these swatches provide you with all of the information and inspiration that you'll need for any possible design challenge.
Each of the styles in DynaSCAPE Color has hundreds of swatches for you to choose from. Organized into the categories that are most useful to you, such as Trees, Shrubs, Paving Stones and so on, these swatches provide you with all of the information and inspiration that you'll need for any possible design challenge.
Create your own swatches
And just in case 675 swatches aren't quite enough to give full expression to your creative vision or style, DynaSCAPE Color also comes with a Style Editor that lets you create your own new swatches to add to the mix. This is especially handy for those craftspeople who wish to create or reproduce a distinctive coloring style based on their own well-defined personal palette. With Color's Style Editor, the sky's the limit!
And just in case 675 swatches aren't quite enough to give full expression to your creative vision or style, DynaSCAPE Color also comes with a Style Editor that lets you create your own new swatches to add to the mix. This is especially handy for those craftspeople who wish to create or reproduce a distinctive coloring style based on their own well-defined personal palette. With Color's Style Editor, the sky's the limit!
Fill in whole areas with a single click
Have we emphasized Color's ease of use enough yet? Its time-saving benefits are especially obvious – and worth repeating! – when you see how easily it can fill an entire area of your landscape design with an attractive texture or color with a single click of the mouse. And it does so in an intelligent way that makes every stone, leaf and blade of grass look like it was individually colored by hand.
Have we emphasized Color's ease of use enough yet? Its time-saving benefits are especially obvious – and worth repeating! – when you see how easily it can fill an entire area of your landscape design with an attractive texture or color with a single click of the mouse. And it does so in an intelligent way that makes every stone, leaf and blade of grass look like it was individually colored by hand.
Benefits of the coloring module
As a key add-on to the industry’s leading CAD landscape design software, the benefits of adding DynaSCAPE Color to your professional toolkit are many. In fact, there are benefits for every skill level:
For the non-colorer
For some, it was lack of time. For others, lack of coloring skills. Now, DynaSCAPE Color removes many of the barriers that have prevented some designers from coloring their landscape designs. Because it's easy to learn, and produces impressive results so quickly and easily, DynaSCAPE Color lets you:
For some, it was lack of time. For others, lack of coloring skills. Now, DynaSCAPE Color removes many of the barriers that have prevented some designers from coloring their landscape designs. Because it's easy to learn, and produces impressive results so quickly and easily, DynaSCAPE Color lets you:
- Try coloring without having to invest too much time before seeing professional results
- Color like a pro even if you have limited coloring experience or skills
- Keep your bids competitive with full-color output
- Discover new ways to express your landscape design ideas on paper
- Experiment with different styles without wasting valuable time
- Be confident that all your color choices will be compatible and pleasing to the eye
For those who seldom color
Many landscape designers are already sold on the idea of coloring, but simply lack the time to apply hand-coloring to all – or even many – of their designs. By significantly reducing the time required to color each design, DynaSCAPE Color lets you:
Many landscape designers are already sold on the idea of coloring, but simply lack the time to apply hand-coloring to all – or even many – of their designs. By significantly reducing the time required to color each design, DynaSCAPE Color lets you:
- Color more of your drawings
- Add a new level of attention and perfection to all of your colored output
- Try different coloring styles on the same design
- Use the time saved to get and complete more jobs
- Assign coloring tasks to more junior, or less skilled, members of your team
- Increase your colored output without sacrificing quality
- Boost the level of professionalism of your entire business
For the coloring crafts-person
Even if you already hand-color like a pro and take well-deserved pride in your craft, we're confident that you'll still be impressed by the high quality of DynaSCAPE Color's output, and pleased with the many ways that it can support and extend your skill. Adding DynaSCAPE Color to your professional landscape design toolkit allows you to:
Even if you already hand-color like a pro and take well-deserved pride in your craft, we're confident that you'll still be impressed by the high quality of DynaSCAPE Color's output, and pleased with the many ways that it can support and extend your skill. Adding DynaSCAPE Color to your professional landscape design toolkit allows you to:
- Apply your artistic sensibility to more of your designs
- Automate the more tedious aspects of coloring so you can focus on the most important details
- Create an unlimited number of custom swatches and palettes
- Take your coloring skills in new directions
- Confidently automate some of your coloring tasks without having to accept any loss in the quality of the output
Benefits for All
- Transform your black and white DynaSCAPE landscape designs into full-color masterpieces
- Save time
- Color like a pro
- Clarify your plans
- Color more of your drawings
- Show your professionalism
- Create multiple versions of the same drawing
- Demonstrate the true appearance of your proposed design
- Express your landscape ideas more accurately and attractively
- Sell more
How it Works Video
This video illustrates the workflow of bringing in a completed DynaSCAPE Design and coloring it in DynaSCAPE Color.
View some DS|Color Drawings!
Customer Reviews
By all accounts, DynaSCAPE Color is a welcome addition to our landscape design software Suite. Here are just a few of the many positive comments we’ve been receiving:
Dear Dynascape Staff,
WOW! I can hardly wait to color more drawings. Thank you for creating an amazing product. It is fun to use and will translate directly into sales as soon as I use it on jobs.
WOW! I can hardly wait to color more drawings. Thank you for creating an amazing product. It is fun to use and will translate directly into sales as soon as I use it on jobs.
Cheryl Corson, LLC
Cberyl Corson Design
Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Cberyl Corson Design
Upper Marlboro, Maryland
I originally chose DynaSCAPE Design because I knew I could create landscape drawings that would impress my clients and help them to visualize their landscape dreams. Now with DynaSCAPE Colour, my clients are "blown away" with my landscape plans. The drawings give them a better understanding of the colours, textures, and patterns I intend to use and this brings the landscape to life. This new drawing 'tool' creates great colour illustrations, I save hours of my time at the drafting table hand-colouring, and it's very easy to use. I know it will help to sell the landscape design and therefore, the landscape project.
Lexi Dearborn, Dip.B.,ODHLD.A Dearborn Designs
Barrie, Ontario
Barrie, Ontario
To the DynaSCAPE Color team,
Thank you very much for allowing me to be part of the testing for the new DynaSCAPE Color. After only watching a 15 min presentation of what the program is capable of I was able to take one of my drawings and produce a high quality rendered presentation drawing in only a few hours. The program itself is very intuitive and easy to use making it possible to navigate through the steps without even having a manual yet. Whenever you can go from a new program to a useable sales tool in hours instead of days or even weeks I think you’ve hit a home run. DynaSCAPE Color will definitely be a welcome and powerful tool in creating our sales presentations. Thanks again,
Thank you very much for allowing me to be part of the testing for the new DynaSCAPE Color. After only watching a 15 min presentation of what the program is capable of I was able to take one of my drawings and produce a high quality rendered presentation drawing in only a few hours. The program itself is very intuitive and easy to use making it possible to navigate through the steps without even having a manual yet. Whenever you can go from a new program to a useable sales tool in hours instead of days or even weeks I think you’ve hit a home run. DynaSCAPE Color will definitely be a welcome and powerful tool in creating our sales presentations. Thanks again,
Richard Kuizenga
Landscape Designer
Shademaster Landscaping
Waterdown, Ontario
Landscape Designer
Shademaster Landscaping
Waterdown, Ontario
To the team at DynaSCAPE,
I was recently speaking with a client from this past season, they are excited about DynaSCAPE Color, as am I. I was describing the vivid colors and the artistic capabilities I had seen at Congress. After playing a short while I am thrilled with the already impressive progress, the color rendering has made on our presentation. I can't wait to re-visit some favorite designs from the past, and bring them back to the present in a big way. After the revealing to our client, I was thrilled to see how excited they were to recognize their property, on what they called "a work of art". Bill and Pina are taking their new design home to frame and hang in their home, to proudly be visible for friends and family. What a great testimonial to our company, and yours. I send my thanks from our team at Pathways to Perennials to your home camp.
I was recently speaking with a client from this past season, they are excited about DynaSCAPE Color, as am I. I was describing the vivid colors and the artistic capabilities I had seen at Congress. After playing a short while I am thrilled with the already impressive progress, the color rendering has made on our presentation. I can't wait to re-visit some favorite designs from the past, and bring them back to the present in a big way. After the revealing to our client, I was thrilled to see how excited they were to recognize their property, on what they called "a work of art". Bill and Pina are taking their new design home to frame and hang in their home, to proudly be visible for friends and family. What a great testimonial to our company, and yours. I send my thanks from our team at Pathways to Perennials to your home camp.
Nick Mennen
Pathway to Perennials
Kettleby, Ontario
Pathway to Perennials
Kettleby, Ontario
Hello,
Just installed DynaSCAPE Color yesterday afternoon and have been playing around with it all this morning. I just wanted to let you guys know it's really easy to use and it makes my drawings look fantastic! I can't even express how excited I am to show a client a Colour Rendering Concept Plan of their yard and see their appreciation of the design. It will not only impress the client but also make it that much easier for them to decipher and visualize the design. Thanks DynaSCAPE for continuing to be a company I know I can count on. I am proud to say I use your product everyday with excellent, professional results.
Just installed DynaSCAPE Color yesterday afternoon and have been playing around with it all this morning. I just wanted to let you guys know it's really easy to use and it makes my drawings look fantastic! I can't even express how excited I am to show a client a Colour Rendering Concept Plan of their yard and see their appreciation of the design. It will not only impress the client but also make it that much easier for them to decipher and visualize the design. Thanks DynaSCAPE for continuing to be a company I know I can count on. I am proud to say I use your product everyday with excellent, professional results.
Lara Hunter
Landscape Designer
Hunter Landscape Design
Surrey, BC
Landscape Designer
Hunter Landscape Design
Surrey, BC
System Requirements
- Windows Vista ® and Windows 7 ®
- Intel Core 2 Duo Processor (or equivalent) or 2.8 Ghz Pentium 4 Processor (or equivalent)
- Minimum 2GB RAM
- Free disk space available - 250MB
- 128 MB DirectX 9 Video Card (see below)
Common Graphics Cards that meet the recommended requirements
ATI Radeon models 9550, 9600, 9800, and X-Series
Intel GMA900 Model 915G, Intel GMA950 Model 945G
NVidia Geforce FX Series, 6xxx Series, and 7xxx Series
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is the price for DynaSCAPE Color?
- How do I get a copy of DynaSCAPE Color?
- Is DynaSCAPE Color a separate product?
- What version of DynaSCAPE Design do I need?
- What are the System Requirements?
- Will I be able to add my own styles and swatches?
- Where do I get the User Guide?
- Users can purchase DynaSCAPE Color for $695.
2. How do I get a copy of DynaSCAPE Color?
Here are the steps needed to purchase your copy of DynaSCAPE Color:
- Check for Updates with DynaSCAPE Design - you will need version 4.1 in order to successfully use Color.
- Check for Updates with DynaSCAPE Quote/Manage - you will also need to check for updates for any other DynaSCAPE Software you may be running.
- Download the Booster Design Color Booster Pack - Read more about the DynaSCAPE Design Color Booster Pack here.
- Download the User Guide in .PDF format.
- Install the Booster Pack once it has been downloaded.
- Login to My Account. Use the 'Forgot your password?' option if you cannot remember your password.
- Click the 'Purchase DynaSCAPE Color 1.0' link.
- Once the order has been processed we will send you an email with your serial numbers.
- Again login to My Account and click the 'Download DynaSCAPE Color 1.0' link.
- Install DynaSCAPE Color.
Yes. Once your design in completed you will import your DynaSCAPE drawing into DynaSCAPE Color for rendering. Click here to watch the workflow video
To take full advantage of DynaSCAPE Color you will be required to run DynaSCAPE Design 4.1.
2.8 Ghz Pentium 4 Processor or Equivalent
1GB RAM
128 MB DirectX 9 Video Card (see below)
1GB RAM
128 MB DirectX 9 Video Card (see below)
Common Graphics Cards that meet the recommended requirements:
ATI Radeon models 9550, 9600, 9800, and X-Series
Intel GMA900 Model
915G, Intel GMA950 Model 945G
NVidia Geforce FX Series, 6xxx Series,
and 7xxx Series
Windows Vista, Windows XP with Service Pack 2
Yes. There is a Style Editor that will allow you to customize DynaSCAPE Color to your distinct individual style.
You can download a .PDF version of the User Guide here. If you have requested a CD be shipped to you a hard copy of the User Guide will be included.