Add an area walks you through putting a new bed, lawn, patio or path onto the photo. It makes the same live, editable shape as the Draw beds & patios tool, with perspective, shadows and undo.

Inside the Add tool, at the top of Plants & things, Mulch, stone & lawn and Draw beds & patios, tap 🧱 Add an area under “Add a bed, lawn, patio or path”.

The question is “Where do you want to add something?” Pick one:

• Find the bed for me: VisionScaper outlines the bed that is already in the photo. It accepts a bed only when it is confident the bed is mulch. For other beds, if you are signed in and the online helper is available, it asks the helper to outline a raised garden bed or garden bed. If it cannot, it says “I couldn’t find the edge of that bed by myself. Outline it yourself: tap around it.” You then confirm with “Is this the area?” and Yes, that’s the area.
• Curved edges: tap around it; the outline curves smoothly.
• Straight edges: tap each corner.
• Rectangle: press and drag one box across the area.

See Outline modes and fine-tuning for dragging dots.

“What should go there?” You see the full materials browser, with Popular first (dark brown, black, red and cedar mulch, lawn, sod, soil, topsoil, pea gravel and river stone), a search box (“Search [n] materials”) and group chips: Mulch, Stone & Gravel, Soil & Sand, Lawn & Groundcover, Pavers, Natural Stone, Tile & Marble, Wood & Decking, Decking & Surfaces. Tap any material.

The area appears at once, named Bed 1, Patio 1 and so on, and a bar shows under the picture:

• Looks good: keep it.
• Try another material: pick again without redrawing.
• Start the area over: removes it and goes back to Step 1.
• ✋ Fine-tune the edges: drag, add and remove dots.
• Edging: None, Steel, Stone, Brick.

The wizard decides if it is a lawn, patio or bed by the material’s group (lawn and groundcover; pavers, natural stone, tile and wood; everything else a bed). A message says “Added. If you change your mind, press Undo.”

• It is one undo step.
• Afterward, tap the shape with the Move tool to change it, as described in Draw beds, patios and edging.

• “That outline was too small. Try again.”: place at least 3 points.
• Find the bed does not find a raised bed: outline it yourself.
• The material looks stretched: lower the Perspective slider in the Brush panel.

• Outline modes and fine-tuning edges
• Draw beds, patios, lawns, walkways, walls and edging
• Paint mulch, stone, lawn and pavers on the ground