The last office that I worked for we used mostly Photoshop to do renderings. We were able to creat a pdf file of our Cadd file and then drop it into a PS file and start coloring. Eventually what we did in our office, so that all of our plans looked mostly uniform was to creat a template of trees (flowering, autumn, summer) which could be cut and pasted into the drawings. This saved time by quite a bit. As far as the colors for things like lawn, roads, DG, etc was all uniform as well, so we didnt have to guess on what colors we should use.
I personally like PS, because back in College I used Illustrator on a few projects and really didnt like the way that it worked, however I did like the PS program, so I just stuck with it. In the last year of my employment at my last office we started using SketchUp as well, which, from what I see in the job applications, is a program that is becoming very relevant in our field.
Dominic
