Master GreenScapes Landscape & Hardscape Design Software
GreenScapes Easy Photorealistic Landscape Design Software
GreenScapes is designed for busy landscape professionals who want professional results without spending days learning complex software. No steep learning curve, just simple, intuitive tools and built-in training movies that guide you every step of the way. The tutorials cover everything from importing client photos and basic cleanup to adding stunning plants, hardscapes, lighting effects, and custom libraries.
Most users are creating wow-worthy designs after watching just the first few videos.
Learn GreenScapes in Hours – Not Weeks – With Built-In Training Movies!
GreenScapes Tutorial 1: Getting Started – The Client's Photo
GreenScapes Tutorial 1 – Start Your First Landscape Design Step-by-Step (Version 1.3)
Watch the first step in creating stunning landscape designs! Learn how to open a digital photo of your client's home, resize, save it properly, and use the powerful clone tool to clean up unwanted objects (like signs, cars, or debris). Get your canvas ready in minutes so you can focus on the fun part—adding plants, trees, and pavers.) GreenScapes is perfect for designers who don't want to hand-draw.
Pro tip: Master the basics quickly by watching all the step-by-step tutorials.
GreenScapes Tutorial 2: Define Area Tool for Textures
GreenScapes Tutorial 2: Mastering the Define Area Tool to create hardscape, grass, mulch, & gravel.
Tutorial 2 shows you how to outline spaces with the Define Area Tool in your client's photo and fill them with realistic pavers, grass, mulch, concrete, and more, to create professional landscape designs quickly. Designing driveways, expanding a walkway, and planting beds, with GreenScapes landscape & hardscape design software makes it simple.
Pro tip: Right-click on the texture and set an "Edge Blend Width." This will soften the edges for a more realistic look.
GreenScapes Tutorial 3: Adding & Mastering Plants
GreenScapes Tutorial 3: Adding Plants & Creating Spectacular Gardens. "I can't picture it" is gone.
GreenScapes Tutorial 3 is all about adding plants, shrubs, trees, hedges, and more from GreenScapes' extensive plant libraries. This step-by-step guide shows how to place, resize, trim, duplicate, flip, warp, group, draw, replace, and layer plants for natural, photorealistic results that wow clients.
See how fast you can create client-impressing garden visions that help close sales.
Pro tip: Vary plant sizes for perspective (bigger in front, smaller in back), use duplicate & flip tools.
GreenScapes Tutorial 4: Add Rocks, Trees & Realistic Shadows
GreenScapes Tutorial 4: Add Rocks, Trees, and Create Realistic Shadows (Version 1.3) 2026
In Tutorial 4: Learn to place accents like boulders and accent trees, shape them perfectly for integration with the mulch or grass. Create exact silhouette shadows, warp them to match surfaces, adjust transparency, and layer everything correctly so shadows fall naturally behind objects.
Pro Tip: The "secret" to stunning landscape realism is effective shadows; they take your landscape & hardscape designs to the next level.
GreenScapes Tutorial 5: Save & Brand Your Designs
GreenScapes Tutorial 5: Saving & Presenting Final Landscape & Hardscape Designs
In Tutorial 5: Complete the GreenScapes design process by saving. Landscaping projects evolve, so learn to save in the native.LND file (editable anytime), create stunning "before" and "after" comparisons, add your branding (logo, company name, website, phone/email), for on-screen viewing.
Pro Tip: Photorealistic designs are a powerful sales presentation—clients see the transformation and trust your professionalism, leading to faster approvals.
GreenScapes Tutorial 6: Night Lighting Effects Included Free
Night Lighting Effects – Realistic Evening Illumination in GreenScapes (Included with GreenScapes)
In Tutorial 6: Realistic Evening Illumination, create dramatic nighttime visuals from your daytime designs. Skip image sizing (covered earlier); jump straight to darkening the scene and drawing realistic light from fixtures.
Pro Tip: The fixtures are placed on the image in GreenScapes just as any other object would be. Watch all the Landscape Lighting Movies Here to Learn More!
GREENSCAPES TRAINING PLAYLISTS ON YOUTUBE BELOW
GreenScapes Tutorials to get started.
GreenScapes Advanced Tutorials Playlist
GreenScapes is an easy-to-use design tool. You will learn tips that will help make your images more realistic. Click the image you will go to YouTube to learn more about our garden design software.
GreenScapes Advanced Tutorials Playlist
GreenScapes Landscape Design Software has 8 advanced training Tutorials. Lessons that will make you a pro at photo imaging. Wow, information on designing landscape and Hardscape.
Spanish Training Tutorials
No tenemos toda nuestra formación en español, pero esperamos que esto ayude a todos nuestros usuarios de español. Háganos saber si le resultan útiles.
GreenScapes Program Menu / Training Videos
Menu Drop Down Training Videos
Training Videos are short videos that show you how to use the tools in GreenScapes Landscape/Hardscape Design Software. The ? on the top toolbar within the program will bring up a video just like the ones below.
GreenScapes File Menu Drop-Down Training Videos
- Create a New Blank Canvas
- Open the background Image
- Save in LND and JPG
- Send JPG Image via Email
- Resize or Crop the image
- Import an Image
- Learn how to export
- Print your design
- Program defaults
- How to exit the program
GreenScapes Tools Menu Drop Down Training Videos
- Properties
- Select All
- Layers - front, back, up, down
- Add Text
- Color Levels
- Colorize
- Smudge
- Measure an Image
- Create Shadow
- Select by Name
GreenScapes Area Menu Training Videos
- Pattern Library 1 - Tools
- Pattern Library 2
- Define an Area
- Edit an Area
- Create Texture Group
- Remove a Texture Group
- Clone Tool
- Convert to an Object
- Revert to Background
GreenScapes Object Menu Drop-Down Training Videos
- Warp Tool
- Replicate
- Erase
- Rotate
- Flip an Object
- Merge Objects
- Combine with Background
- Fill Wand
- Paint
- Magic Wand
GreenScapes Edit and View Tools Menu Drop-Down Videos
GreenScapes Bonus Videos: How to create Libraries
GreenScapes Advanced Videos: New Videos 2026
- Create a Custom Plant Library.
- How to make my own objects with the define area tool.
- Installing a deck and fence with photo imaging software (Advanced)
- Trace of Steps with a new texture. (Advanced)
- How to use a blueprint in GreenScapes. (Advanced)
ABOUT US: With over 35 years in photorealistic visualization software, we’ve built trusted tools for landscape, hardscape, and lighting professionals. From our early days in New York as Design Imaging Group to today’s modern GreenScapes, Deco‑Con, and Lighting Software, our mission has stayed the same: make design simple, fast, and visually stunning.