Usually a house is a man’s greatest asset; “His home is his castle.” A house or home can easily become the most important possession for a family, which would include its surroundings or landscape.

Recently, several of the landscape architects and design associations have forecast trends toward homeowners spending more money to adorn their landscapes and add outdoor living spaces, including water gardens or water features. More and more homeowners are spending non-discretionary income on their homes, inside and out, instead of second homes or exotic vacations. It’s no surprise that the landscape design business is booming.

With the exception of a few large landscape architecture design firms, most have not taken advantage of the high-tech design software tools available to the industry. This is due to the high cost and steep learning curve associated with graphics and design technology.

When laying out a water garden, most landscaping contractors now provide their clients with a hand-drawn sketch(es) or floor plan. Many landscape designers and architects now use CADCAM or 3D type software programs. At best, these programs produce forced and unnatural results. Only a couple of the programs offer images related to water gardens, and they don’t offer enough objects to create more than a handful of unrealistic-looking water features.

The “Water Garden Digital Image Library”, the first of its kind, has just been released by Aquamedia Corp. It consists of images in png format of real images of rocks, water, waterfalls, ponds, aquatic plants, aquatic creatures such as turtles and fish etc “Water Garden Digital Image Library 5.0” includes Microsoft’s Digital Image Suite 9 software and a two-hour training video from master waterfall builder Douglas Hoover that teaches, step by step, how to design a virtual water garden using a digital photograph of a back yard.

Many architects, designers, and landscapers charge up to $3,500 for an average detailed landscape plan in Southern California. But most homeowners are more interested in an overall concept than details, and it’s easier for them to get excited about a $350 digitally designed photo than a detailed plan of the entire property. Today’s “NOW Generation” wants to see what it will look like NOW!

A $350 virtual photograph that only takes an hour to produce has a greater impact and leaves a stronger impression than a $2,500 landscape shot that takes me ten hours to draw. I can produce ten digital photo layouts in the time it takes to draw a floor plan. One can easily do the math… four designs a day, five days a week, multiplies to $364,000 per year.

The training video for Digital Image Library 5.0 is concise and attentive to minor details and will enable almost anyone with basic computer skills to become proficient in using its software. This trio – library, software and training video – will allow the designer to create hundreds of different water gardens, and customers will see a real picture of a water garden in their garden.

The time couldn’t be better to introduce The Water Garden Digital Image Library. This artistic tool will enable landscapers, architects and designers to vividly express their visions and ideas to their clients. Customers will be able to see exactly what they will get without any confusion or doubt. This additional service will put professionals in a class by themselves. And homeowners will be impressed, to say the least, with the elegant virtual waterscape they’re looking at, right down to the last design detail of a pond water leveler.

The “Water Garden Digital Image Library” offers several important benefits: it increases your bottom line by closing more sales, and it provides additional revenue from switching to digital design. It differentiates you from your competition. He assures his clients that what they see is what they really get. Customize the design by placing it on an existing photo of your garden. Digital design does not require you to measure the area of ​​the photo that you are placing the virtual image on.

Best of all, by offering a digital design, you are compensated for the time you spend with the client should they decline your offer. Clients will gladly pay $350 for a digital design and the average design only takes an hour to complete. Four designs per day, five days per week, is $364,000 per year. What great potential!

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