Easy Coloring: Quickly color up your CADs
Right now as we are deep in the design phase, I spend a lot of time using softward called Ned Graphics. It’s a suite of fashion design software not unlike Adobe. There are 6 different programs that we use:
Color Reduction and Cleaning
Design and Repeat
Easy Coloring
Easy Weave
Easy Knit
Storyboard and Cataloging
The easiest to explain and learn is by far easy coloring. While it is a quite simple tool, it is also very powerful. Here’s your quick demo.
Easy Coloring by Ned Graphics
You can see I’ve circled 4 colors on the right – this pallet that is within the circle represents the current colorway that is being shown in the pattern to the left. You can quickly create an infinite number of different colorways to see what colors look best in your pattern and in what positions. What if I flip the red and the white? Well, I will just create another colorway and see how it looks. Here below you can see what the same pattern looks like with a different colorway selected:
Easy Coloring by Ned Graphics
We have previously matched all of the colors for each of our collections (called color standards) to our printer, so when we print the patterns, the colors quite close to how they will look once made from actual fabric.
Easy Coloring is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the Ned Graphics suite, and what I’ve shown you here is a mere sliver of of that tip. This software package is quite powerful and you will learn more of what it can do in future posts.