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On this page we will cover how to create clothing designs with a fashion design app. The Fashion Design App we will cover is our Digital Fashion Pro Fashion Design Software System. It can be used on Windows PC, Laptops and Macbooks and Desktops. The Digital Fashion Pro Fashion Design App Software System allows users to create professional digital fashion sketches and clothing designs regardless of drawing ability or skill level. Within the fashion industry, nearly all fashion designers and fashion houses at some point use digital graphic design software or fashion design software to visually create their clothing designs. The goal of a fashion design is to accurately communicate the designer’s idea as to what the finished garment should look like after it is made. A digital sketch created with a clothing design app serves as a blueprint for the person sewing the design or the factory that is making the design.
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Getting Started With Using a Fashion Design App
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Getting started with creating your designs with a clothing design app is super easy. With Digital Fashion Pro you just order, receive and install. Now you may be asking how easy is the app to use and can people with no experience or background in fashion use it? The answer is absolutely yes. Anyone regardless of their fashion background, drawing skills or sewing skills can use the DFP fashion design app. As a designer, whether you are designing clothing with a fashion app or hand drawing your designs you always want the freedom to be creative. A good fashion design app should allow you that freedom without limitation. You will want your designs to come out looking exactly as you envision them in your mind. Choosing the right clothing design app can greatly help you get started with your designs.
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What Is The Design Process Like With a Fashion Design App?
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While fashion design apps may work differently across various brands we will focus on how the Digital Fashion Pro Clothing Design App works. With Digital Fashion Pro much work has been put into taking an ordinary person with no design experience and putting them in position where they can create cutting edge professional fashion designs in no time at all. The digital program achieves this by giving users access to step by step tutorials and eGuides. Each included fashion design training video teaches users how to create their clothing designs with guaranteed professional results. DFP training videos are like an advance fashion design class on steroids.
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How to Create Clothing Designs With The Digital Fashion Pro Fashion Design App in 9 Steps
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Here is how the process of how to create clothing designs with the Digital Fashion Pro Fashion Design App goes:
- Install The Software
- Follow the included training materials
- Browse through template categories to find a template similar to the design you want to create
- Manipulate / customize the template to your exact vision (do this by dragging nodes, creating new nodes etc)
- Add your additional design elements to fully customize the design
- Add any logos or artwork by importing the artwork or create a new artwork on the template whether it is a text logo etc
- Browse through Digital Fashion Fabrics / Texture files to import them into your design or just add plain regular color
- Finalize your design
- Save Your Professional Digital Design
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The mission of Digital Fashion Pro is to put users in position where they can create manufacturer-ready fashion sketches that can be used in the apparel manufacturing process. Digital Fashion Pro also comes with hundreds of customizable clothing templates that users will use as a guide to create their designs from. The clothing templates really make it easy for newbies and professional fashion designers to quickly get their designs out of their heads and into the real world. The design process is extremely user-friendly with the DFP App. Another feature of Digital Fashion Pro is that it comes with over 1,000 digital fabric files and textures that will make your designs look like real garments. Plus you can add your own prints, logos and textures too.
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The Importance of a Professional Fashion Design Software App / Practical Everyday Uses
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Using a professional fashion design software app is very important. The app should allow you creative freedom and the ability to create professional designs that you can use for business purposes. Companies that you may potentially seek to work with will judge your company by your designs. You want to make sure your designs are clean, precise and fully represent your design idea. You also want to make sure that before submitting your computer-aided (cad) digital designs (preferred format) to your clothing manufacturer or seamstress that you have already completed your tweaks and figured out your color / fabric combinations etc. Professionals are busy and they do not want you to keep making changes and constantly sending them file updates. Before deciding to add an design to your collection that you will present to a manufacturer you will want to vet it with your team. It is at that stage that the final design choice should emerge for any given style.
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Sketches created with a fashion design app are also important for these 10 reasons:
- Giving to your manufacturer or seamstress so they can make your line
- Put on a spec sheet (the blueprint of your design)
- For creating technical sketches
- Using your sketches in your catalog, storyboard, portfolio or lookbook
- Showcasing your designs to potential investors
- Utilized in the product design cycle with your team
- Deciding which final design you will go with as each may have small deviations
- Experiment with colors and fabrics to make the best choice for your collection
- Saving you designs in digital format so that they are easily retrievable
- Easy to share by email, text, uploading to social media because of digital format
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Mobile Fashion Design App For iPhone, iPad, Android, Tablets, Computers, Laptops and Desktops
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While there are fashion apps for iPhone, Android and certain tablets like iPad and Samsung Galaxy, the Digital Fashion Pro Fashion Design App is for Windows Computers, Laptops, Surface Pro Tablets, Macbooks and Mac Desktop Machines. In the fashion industry, most designers use larger screen devices as it allows for greater detail in your designs. Designing is best done on larger screens as it allows designers to easily see their full designs zoomed in and zoomed out. Personally I like seeing my designs in large format so I can get a really good feel on how the design is going to come out once it is made. From a comparison standpoint, it really doesn’t matter if Digital Fashion Pro is used with Mac or Windows – the final results will be the same. However, once you have created your designs you can always email them to your iPhone or Galaxy so that you have them on your phone. At that point you can share them via text etc.
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Using a Clothing Design App to Start a Clothing Line
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You can use a clothing design app like Digital Fashion Pro to start a clothing line. The Digital Fashion Pro App is unique because not only does it help users create professional fashion sketches, there are also packages of it that include tools to help users start their own professional clothing line. The Mogul Edition of Fashion Pro comes with The Official Step by Step Guide to Starting a Clothing Line Book, a eList of over 500 clothing manufacturers and spec sheet templates. The Mogul Package covers all the basis that a new designer or beginner will need to get their line going. Starting a clothing line can be hard but the Mogul Package effectively puts that goal in reach. Plus that package allows users to design jeans, t-shirts, dresses, coats, jackets, shoes, hoodies, athletic wear, yoga pants, leggings, swimsuits, skirts, sweaters, suits and kid’s clothing. Also note that because all of the educational components that are included in Digital Fashion Pro we cannot offer a free trial version. However, there are a multitude of videos on our site that show how designs come together with the program. We guarantee users will be able to create their fashion designs after following the included training.
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Learn more about the Fashion Design App by Digital Fashion Pro Here. It is an awesome tool to get your clothing designs off to a great start.
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By Michael Harper – Fashion Designer
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Note: All designs created on this page were created with Digital Fashion Pro by Michael Harper
About the author:This guest article was written by Emma Best from Laptopical - a guide to the latest laptop reviews and laptop related news. You can also follow her on Twitter.
I've been using my MacBook Pro since a while now and I must say: I really love it. The most common app(s) that designers use has to be Adobe Photoshop (Or the full suite). The app(s) are great, but there is a downside: The price tag. Photoshop CS4 costs $699, CS4 extended is $999 and the full Creative Suite starts at an stunning $1799. For many people this is just a little bit too much to 'play around with'.
Luckily, there are also many free applications out there that can do the same kind of job that Photoshop could do for you. This article rounds up the best 15 free Mac Programs for Graphic Designers. Some of these applications can even do stuff that can't be achieved using Photoshop, or are much more simple to use.
Keep your wallet in your pocket, since all these programs will cost you nothing.
GIMP
The most popular of all free photo editing software, GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program, and is highly-supported and frequently updated. Comparative to Photoshop, users can perform basic tasks such as photo retouching, color correction, and image size, or more complicated tasks like image composition and creation. GIMP has a scripting interface for advance users, as well as plugins, extensions, and filters.
Seashore
If you want GIMP, but don't have X11, then Seashore is the appropriate software for you. Based on GIMP, it has nearly all the settings and functions of the more advanced program without the higher requirements.
Inkspace
An excellent alternative to Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw, Inkscape is a free vector graphics program supporting standard SVG format, as well as XML and CSS standards. This program can do everything you'll need in a vector graphics program - tracing, path operations, direct XML editing, etc. Import and export formats include all the common image types, including JPEG, PNG, and TIFF.
Front End Digital Media Workshop
Don't waste time manually resizing individual photos for your various projects. Front End Digital Media is a batch conversion app for images (as well as video and audio), and allows you to mass resize, resample, split, join, and up/down sample JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, PSD, and PICT image files.
Image Tricks
The biggest appeal for the Image Tricks app is the ability to apply dozens of different filters to over 20 different image formats. The finished photos can then be exported as either TIFF, JPEG, or PNG.
Comipro Plus
If you create cartoons of any type, Comipro Plus is an excellent app. Designed in Japanese but usable to English speakers, this program helps create modern-looking comics, including editing and adding word bubbles.
Google SketchUp
Different from a normal vector graphics program, Google's SketchUp allows you to not only create a design, but view it in 3D. It is easier to use than more complicated 3D software, such as AutoCAD, and is free.
Colorate
Colorate is used to change and manipulate the colors in a photo. The Library generates a color swatch based on the photo, then allow you to add a new color pallete, either blending the current one, creating a custom one, or randomizing a completely new pallete.
Goldberg
This program is best used for those times when you're viewing your photos, and notice that a color is slightly off, or a side needs cropped a bit more. Instead of firing up a full photo editing application, you can simply make minor adjustments, including color correction, blurs, noise, and embossing.
NIH Image
If you need to animate one of your photos or designs, this program is for you. It's compatible with a wide array of programs, and in addition to animating images, it can also perform minor tweaks to contrast, sharpening, smoothing, filters, and more. It also analyzes particles, angles, and paths.
Scratch
This program is so simple, it can be used also immediately with no prior instruction. It is used for creating small games, interactive art, and animated stories, and is primarily marketed to children. Despite it's juvenile market, it is an excellent tool for putting together quick interactive banners and images without the learning curve.
DAZ Studio
If you're in need of realistic 3D models, DAZ Studio is an easy-to-learn 3D program for creating 3D objects, including people, animals, and objects (buildings, cars, etc). DAZ Studio is easier to use than other 3D animation tools, and is perfect for creating surrealistic and 3D art.
Bryce
Built to run with the aforementioned DAZ Studio software, Bryce is used to create real-looking landscapes using photos of real landscapes. Take a picture of your yard, a forest, some mountains, or other landscapes, import it into Bryce, and then add all the elements needed to turn it into a new world.
ArchiCAD
If you need a 3D design tool with more power and features than Google SketchUp, ArchiCAD is the right program to you. Similar to AutoCAD in both function and name, this program allows users to design their sketches and ideas into a realistic 3D render.
JAlbum
Every graphic designer requires an efficient way to keep all their photos and images organized. JAlbum is the ultimate photo organizer, as it not only allows you to organize your photos and folders using simple drag-and-drop functionality, but it also creates thumbnails and HTML pages of your photos for easy online publishing. The HTML pages to publish can be made to either export a gallery or a slide show. In addition, there's support for IPTC and EXIF data, lossless editing, image filters, style sheets, and an integrated FTP client.
Bonus: Pixelmator
I've added Pixelmator myself to this list, as Emma didn't include this app to her top 15 list. I really love to use Pixelmator myself and I don't think it should be missing from this amazing list.
Pixelmator, the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images.
Bonus: Blender
Just like Pixelmator, I've added Blender myself to this list, as Emma didn't include this app to her top 15 list. Blender is a great open source app for 3d content.
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
Are there more Mac Apps that you, as a graphic designer, love to use that is missing from the list above? Please share!
This guest article was provided to you by Emma Best from Laptopical.
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