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Create a Contemporary Garden with AI Garden Design

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A customers garden before using the Rescape AI platform to generate garden ideas.An exquisite example of generative AI garden ideas. A wooden pergola stands tall, draped in climbing plants with a comfortable looking contemporary bench nestled within.

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It's now possible to generate a contemporary garden design of your outdoor space using ai. Using the garden design app from Rescape AI this guide will show you how you can experiment and generate realistic variations of your outdoor space.

A Simple AI Landscape Design Guide

Step One

Firstly, take a clear high quality photo of your garden. Android and iPhone cameras work great for this but a higher quality input images mean higher quality designs.

Try to capture your image on a bright clear day. Your image can be portrait or landscape, whatever captures your space better.

Take your photo carefully

Here are some examples of bad input images

A bad example because it's blurry
Do not use an out of focus input photo
A bad example because it has camera shake
Do not use photos with camera shake
A bad example because there is too much grain
Do not use grainy photos
A bad example because it is under exposed
Do not use poorly exposed photos

Here is an ideal input photo

An ideal input example, it's sharp, focused, and well lit.
Focused, sharp, clear and bright garden photos like above work best.

Step Two

Select the image and choose 'contemporary' from the style choices in the form. For this guide we are going to choose the feature 'pegola with relaxing seating area'.

Step Three

We can match the input image even more closely by telling the AI what areas we do not want changed. We do this by masking areas of the image to preserve.

Open the crop and mask menu that shows when you've uploaded an image. When you're done with the crop on the next screen use the brush and paint the area you'd like to preserve.

On this example I want to preserve the shed and the background because I want it to match my environment exactly.

I'm going to leave some space for the pegola to be generated as it will be higher than the fence so my mask ends up like this.

A demonstration of the mask to help guide the AI's generative capabilities

Step Four

A vital part of the design process is selecting the creativity, lower creativity means that less of the input photo will be changed whereas creativity of 100% will change everything in the garden.

There is fine grained control available here but usually 10% increments are enough. The default creativity is 42% which works nicely a lot of the time so I'm keeping it at that. Some styles require more or less creativity. If you need to drastically change an area, select maximum creativity.

Step Five

Choose up to four generations at a time, the output of each generated image will be different. I selected three and these are my outputs..

Version one of the Contemporary garden with 'pergola with comfortable seating area' prompt. This modern pergola features a sleek design, surrounded by abundant plants that enhance the feeling of being immersed in nature.Version two of the Contemporary garden with 'pergola with comfortable seating area' prompt. This design features a formal painted metal pergola paired with comfortable wooden seating and has a smaller quantity of plants and flowers.Version three of the Contemporary garden with 'pergola with comfortable seating area' prompt. An open pergola, draped in leafy climbing plants and an superb white and pine seating area.
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Step Six

I really like the first output so I'm going to select it for another pass through the AI. There's a lot of grass but really I want a patio infront of the pegola. This time I'm going to mask the whole image apart from where I want the patio, I will select the Stone paving area feature and I'm going to boost creativity to 100%

Here are the final renders from the model

The version one contemporary garden idea remixed a second time to create an attractive pathway and complementary plants.The version one contemporary garden idea remixed with a diagonal patio area, creating contrast and zones for relaxation and movement within the garden.Version one of the contemporary garden idea remixed to include a permeable patio surrounded by low maintenance shrubs marking an entry way to the relaxing pergola seating area.Another contemporary garden idea remixed this time with asymmetric paving, creating a striking contrast and unique configuration specific to this garden.
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You've just designed your garden with AI!

There you have it. Follow these simple steps with your garden to generate your own ideas, there are fifteen base styles to choose from with many features for each style.