AI landscape design from photos and text prompts by Erick Verduzco

Erick Verduzco is a designer who makes drawing and AI workflow tutorials, and this long video looks at Rendair through a landscape and urban design lens. He starts from text prompts for a residential back garden and a city plaza, moves to a 3D model of a garden deck, and then spends most of the time editing his own photos: gardens, streets, a countryside path and drone shots. It is worth watching if you work outdoors rather than indoors, because almost every example is about planting, paving, lighting and public space. He also shows where the results stop making sense.

What you'll see

1. Text to Render with one garden prompt run across several models (Rendair's own model, GPT Image, Flux Kontext, Nano Banana and Nano Banana Pro), then the same comparison for an urban plaza.
2. How creativity and aspect ratio settings change the output before you generate.
3. 3D Model to Render on a garden deck, adding planting and a multi-stem tree to the scene.
4. Chat to strip the background from that render and keep only the subject, giving a clean graphic for presentation boards.
5. Chat again to render a site plan in three styles: realistic, flat infographic and watercolor.
6. A series of photo edits in Chat: a refreshed contemporary garden, a subtle path-and-bench version, a Japanese-style garden and its night view.
7. Street and aerial edits: white-painted houses with new paving, a tennis court on a drone photo, a pedestrian bridge with linear gardens, a park on an aerial shot and a three-color site diagram.
8. More street upgrades: a cobbled lane with lamp posts, artwork on a wall, a rural lane, a shopping street and a skate park.

Takeaways

• He found Nano Banana Pro the most photographic of the models he tried, while the GPT result felt more like CGI.
• He starts every photo edit with a phrase telling the model to edit this exact photo, and keeps prompts specific but simple.
• He points out the misses honestly: context that did not sit right around the garden render, a road that disappeared in the park example, a bridge that would need railings and a water feature people could not actually sit by.
• He reminds viewers that AI amplifies a design idea but does not fix a weak one, so judgment stays with the designer.

Try it yourself

To recreate his workflow, start a photo edit in Chat with a clear instruction to keep the original image, use Text to Render to compare models on the same brief, and use 3D Model to Render when you already have a model of the site.