The brush paints a ground material straight onto the photo. Textures shrink into the distance and pick up real shadows from your photo.

Add → Mulch, stone & lawn (key B). A button at the top, “Add a bed, lawn, patio or path”, opens the guided Add an area wizard.

1. Under Brush, choose a mode: Paint, Undo paint (rubs out paint you added) or Show original (brushes the original photo back, which also reverses erasing and AI changes in just that spot).
2. Set Brush size with the slider, or use the Smaller and Bigger buttons.
3. Choose Sharp edge or Blended edge. For a blended edge a Softness slider appears.
4. Set Opacity if you want to see the photo through the paint.
5. Pick a material in the Material list. Search it (“Search [n] materials”), speak into the microphone, or tap a group chip: Mulch, Stone & Gravel, Soil & Sand, Lawn & Groundcover, Pavers, Natural Stone, Tile & Marble, Wood & Decking, Decking & Surfaces.
6. Drag across the ground in the photo.

The sun button in the scene bar flips the lighting direction of the relief.

• Paint with a big brush first, then use a small blended edge to tidy the border.
• For clean shapes, use Draw beds, patios and edging instead of freehand painting.
• Painted areas are listed in Layers → Ground shapes and can be hidden or removed.
• After an Erase & fill or AI change, brush Show original to bring back the true photo in one place.

• Paint looks streaky or collapses toward the horizon: lower the Perspective slider. Version 2.51.0 fixed streaking on photos that are not the built-in samples.
• Stone looks flat: raise the 3D depth slider, or flip the sun.
• Material looks too dark: lower Photo shadows.
• The brush paints outside the lawn: use Undo paint, or press Ctrl+Z.

• The Add an area wizard
• Draw beds, patios, lawns, walkways, walls and edging
• Library packs and the Materials pack