Features in detail of our landscaping software

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.