Blair LeJeune

Have you looked into Louisiana State University. I am currently a 4th year undergrad and have loved it here. Our programs both undergrad and grad are very well respected and a top 5 program year after year. We have  an extensive amount alumni, and all of our professors come from Cornell, Berkley, GSD, VTech. Travels abroad are also an integral…[Read more]

i am a third year undergrad LA and i can say not many people in our studio use it. although we did have a class that taught us digital representation (sketchup, 3ds max, illustrator, photoshop, indesign). if you have your line work done correctly drawn, meaning closed splines in autocad, and everything in seperate layers, then you can build a…[Read more]

http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Drawing-Landscape-Architecture-Representation/dp/0470403977/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1359138238&sr=8-2&keywords=brad+cantrell
heres the book we use in school. it teaches everything from setting up line-work  quick perspectives, to diagrams. i love it and it has made my workflow much faster and efficient, while still ge…[Read more]

if your using 3ds, import your autocad lines into 3ds. then, hopefully, your topo lines are saved in different layers, but your click on each one and hit w, this allows you to move your line in any direction. on the bottom of the screen youll see 3 little boxes labeled x,y, and z, respectively. here you will set your height of topo line to your…[Read more]

http://design.lsu.edu/landscape/?page_id=447. 

i use both os systems, i use my Mac for all of the design suite and some sketchup and my desktop pc for modeling and CAD. but when it comes to CAD for Mac the interface is somewhat confusing and uncomfortable to use. some things dont seem to work as well as the pc version. it is nice though being able to switch between both platforms and knowing…[Read more]

Land F/X also has great plants, trees, etc. for your scene.

Also if those solutions dont help, try clicking on the print overview button from the view toolbar. the first time i used InDesign my images were blurry but i knew i had imported 300dpi resolution. this should help hopefully