Landscape Illustrator has been well received in the landscape industry for a number of years for our pioneering efforts in clipart creation and rendering techniques, We are confident that we have the best graphic symbols and textures available in the industry and recommend you visit our Download section to receive a 30-day trial of LSI 2005.
	When we developed Landscape Illustrator eight years ago our two main objectives were "Ease of Use" and a "High Use of Color". Over the years we have refined those principles by:      A) Constantly upgrading the help tutorials from simple text based help files in the beginning to a full-featured Tutorial, Lesson files, Online Newsletter chapters and our new for 2005 Video Help Tutorial. This tutorial will guide you through the learning curve enabling you to become a productive user of the Landscape Illustrator software in the shortest time possible.      B) Progressively adding new clipart items to the libraries and engineering the popular Pastel Clipart Symbols and Textures that have been championed and accepted by the existing LSI user community as the closest look to producing a hand rendered design. Many of our competitors have scrambled in an effort to offer pastel clipart items to their libraries. We find that our images are superior in colour, shape, style and overall usability. Cad Style: Landscape Illustrator contains an extensive list of paver hatches, texture fills and plant/shrub/tree symbols, which result in giving the appearance of a cad design. There is also the ability to create your own plant symbols and landscape accessories. These items can be placed into the clipart library or imbedded in Loaded Images for instant retrieval. Example 1     Example 2     Example 3 Pastel Style: A rendering technique unique only to Landscape Illustrator. It includes pastel backgrounds, gradients, streaks and specialized symbols all available in a pastel colour look that closely resembles a hand drawn and rendered design. Example 1     System Requirements: Windows 98/2000/XP - 200 mhz processor - 32 meg of RAM - 600 meg of hard drive space - 16-bit high colour at 800x600 pixels - 8 meg video card Website Links: LSI Newsletter Archive Section Landscape Link Masked Flower Images Designerd: putting your project online    Visit the Estimate Component for important information on calculating areas/perimeters, editing plant/hardscape data and calculation of an installed cost. Photographic Style: Landscape Illustrator is the only landscape design product on the market that uses high quality photographic plant and hardscape images for use in either the Plan or Perspective views. Example 1     Example 2     Example 3 Imaging View: Landscape Illustrator includes an extensive list of hardscape walls, boulders, pavers and flagstone clipart all exclusively for the imaging view. There is also the ability to import your own photos of plant symbols or landscape accessories. These items can be placed into the clipart library or imbedded in Loaded Images for instant retrieval. Example 1     Example 2     Example 3 Trade Shows: Jan 11-13th 2005 LO Congress 2005 Toronto, Ontario Feb 3rd 2005 W.N.Y.S.N.L.A Show Buffalo, NY Feb 14-19th 2005 MAHTS 2005 Trade Show Atlantic City, NJ Feb 22-24th 2005 Hardscape Expo St Charles, IL March 2-3rd 2005 MGIA Trade Show Novi, MI Here is a Software Evaluation Sheet for your use containing important questions to ask when evaluating landscape design/estimation software.