Graphics-Toolbox™ Fashion Research Guide

Important Points to Know

  1. Technology is essential in the fashion industry today.
    1. Most buyers require suppliers to provide computer generated artwork.
    2. Hand drawn images and magic marker looks primitive and unprofessional
    3. Successful, efficient corporations have used computer aided design for many years.
    4. Large retailers do not have confidence in the reliability of suppliers that do not invest in technology
  2. Learning Graphics-Toolbox is fast and easy.
    1. All graphic functions were designed to be logical and intuitive
    2. Step-by-step manual is easy to read and filled with colorful images to clearly illustrate functions
    3. On-line and on-site training available
    4. Convenient on-screen Help messages
  3. Graphics-Toolbox helps companies respond to ever-changing trends:
    1. Swift response on artwork for buyers means faster orders
    2. Quick turn-time on technical details for factories means faster deliveries
    3. Buyers reward efficient, responsive suppliers with larger orders
  4. Graphics-Toolbox helps companies respond to ever-changing trends:
    1. Swift response on artwork for buyers means faster orders
    2. Quick turn-time on technical details for factories means faster deliveries
    3. Buyers reward efficient, responsive suppliers with larger orders
  5. Save money on prototypes by showing buyers realistic renderings of finished garments
    1. Most buyers cannot accurately visualize a garment without a proto.
    2. Protos are costly, time consuming and require a lot of work on the part of staff and factories.
    3. Most protos can not be made in correct color or fabrics, so still may not accurately represent the bulk
    4. Too many prototypes, without subsequent orders, hurt relationships with factories
  6. Revisions are not a problem
    1. Buyers often change their minds and need to see styles and prints reworked or recolored. Graphics-Toolbox images can be revised in minutes.
    2. Successful styles may be offered again next season or next year. Retrieving the images and making revisions is fast and easy.
  7. Factories prefer the precise technical illustrations and pattern filled silhouettes generated on a professional graphics program
    1. Many times, language barriers create confusion and delays. Clear, detailed illustrations leave no room for misinterpretation
    2. Spend time in factories and you will see that most of their other clients are using graphics programs to illustrate and outline their work instructions.
    3. Clear instructions save the factory time and money. Wasted samples and excessive e-mails and phone calls are costs that ultimately have to be passed along to you, in higher garment costs.
    4. Factories value relationships with efficient, organized clients.
  8. Since Graphics-Toolbox is more affordable than all other professional graphic software programs, merchandisers and sales people can use it on their desktops too.
  9. Your Graphics-Toolbox images can be
    1. saved in any of the industry accepted file formats, like Jpeg, Tiff, PSD, BMP, PCX, GIF,…
    2. copied and pasted seamlessly into other Windows programs from Microsoft, Adobe and others.
    3. used to improve the effectiveness of your word processing, desktop publishing, presentation and spreadsheet documents.
  10. Graphics-Toolbox is an affordable, professional graphic software program designed by apparel software designers.

Essential fashion graphic functions

  1. Reduce the colors in prints quickly with the Smoothing, Grouping Colors & Remove Scattered Dots tools
  2. Clean up prints with Color Pen, Pattern Pen, Cloning and more
  3. Develop the perfect colorways with the fast Color Change facility
  4. Put prints into repeat: regular, half-drop or horizontal shift
  5. Make tonal color changes in scanned images, without color reducing, with our unique Tonal Color Change facility
  6. Draw silhouettes with easy drawing tools
  7. Fill bodies with prints with instantaneous Pattern Fill and Rotate Pattern Fill functions
  8. Use Shade, Airbrush and Watercolor for special effects
  9. Quickly manipulate images with Rotate, Reshape and Resize
  10. Use the Apply Texture function to bring the artwork to life
  11. Add Text and create personalized word art to enhance your presentations

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