Helpful tips for the coloring process
Color background objects first:
You will find it easier to color background objects such as lawn, plant beds and hardscape surfaces first (see figure). The areas that define these objects will most often appear on the top layering order because the outlines of these areas were the last objects drawn in Design. Objects drawn last will appear on the front layers, on top of most of your figures.Use the layering order tools:
Once the background objects are colored, send them to the background layer so that foreground objects can now be colored. You will find that the tool that moves objects to the background layer to be the most useful of the layering tools. Choose the objects that you wish to end up on the top and send them to the background first. Send objects you wish to be on the bottom layer last so that they end up underneath everything. As you work on coloring the remaining objects you may need to revise the order of objects to get the best results.