Composite Site Photo

Composite Site Photo in Adobe Photoshop — with two ready prompts: the immediate one, and the one that makes it stick. 1 real situation leads here.

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1situation
1role does it
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The moments that lead here

If one of these is your afternoon, you are in the right place.

Combine a site photo with a CAD hardscape drawing so contractors can see proposed surfaces in place.

2 ready prompts

Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Execute — do the immediate task

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Combine the site photo with the CAD hardscape drawing so contractors see proposed surfaces: import…
Combine the site photo with the CAD hardscape drawing so contractors see proposed surfaces: import the CAD export as a smart object, align to the photo scale, auto-blend layers to integrate edges, and deliver a layered PSD for the contractor folder by [deadline=Thursday].

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Make the composite usable for bidding and field layout: align CAD geometry to known site control…
Make the composite usable for bidding and field layout: align CAD geometry to known site control points in the photo, keep CAD as a smart object for revisions, visually separate existing vs proposed with subtle hatch or color, and include a labeled overlay layer with material callouts for the estimating team.

Who does this, and with what

The same task is different work inside a different job.

Landscape ArchitectAdobe PhotoshopAdobe Illustratoralso: Overlay CAD Hardscape

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