Bringing your own work in
The four steps are an order, not a cage. Wherever you are, the + brings something of your own into the studio.
Four kinds of +
- + in the toolbar loads a new image — a sketch, a photo of a sample, a garment you have already shot. It begins a design, and is offered until that garment has a studio flat.
- + at the bottom of the rail starts another garment in this collection.
- + Image in References adds a logo, print, colour or garment to draw on — and adds it to your library at the same time, so it is there in every garment from then on.
- + Logo, + Text, + Element put something onto the garment itself, at a position you choose.
So you are never obliged to start from a blank prompt. Photograph a sample and go on to a technical flat; bring a print you already own; drop a logo in at the last moment before the pack. Each arrival becomes a moment in history like any other.
References, and the library they come from
A reference is an image the studio draws on. Each one is a kind, and the kind decides what it does.
| Kind | What it does |
|---|---|
| Logo | Placed with + Logo. Never sent to be redrawn |
| Applied as the fabric's pattern | |
| Color | The garment is recoloured to match it |
| Garment | A shape and style influence |
| Inspiration | Mood — direction, not detail |
Everything you add goes into your library automatically, and the library belongs to you rather than to a garment. A brand mark uploaded once is available in every garment you ever make. Open it with ☰ Library and tick what this garment should use.
An image's kind is set in one place. Change it in the library and every garment agrees, because there is only one answer to change.
What each step will accept
A step shows only the kinds it can use, which is why the tray thins out as you move along.
- Create takes colour, garment and inspiration — whole-garment influence. There is no rendered garment yet, so there is nowhere to put a logo or a print.
- Studio Flat takes everything. It is the only step with segmented parts, and on the collar is what a print needs in order to mean anything.
- Tech Flat sends none at all. It traces your studio flat, and artwork already in that flat must not be drawn twice.
A logo is never sent, at any step. + Logo composites the exact artwork at the position you choose. Sending it instead asks a model to redraw the mark — and a redrawn brand mark is a subtly wrong brand mark on a document going to a factory.
Up to ten references ride on a single generation, and only checked ones are sent. History records which: a tile is the record of what a model actually received.
A colour swatch with nothing typed is a complete instruction on its own. The studio writes that sentence for you, and it does not appear in your instruction box — that box is for your words.