AQUARIO TEXTILE DESIGNER - DELIVERS ESSENTIAL TOOLS FOR SURFACE PATTERN DESIGN - CREATE, COLOUR, REPEAT AND PRINT

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17 Nov

Written By Debbie Mckeegan

**Aquario Textile Designer™**

“The Aquario Design plugin has become indispensable to me. This easy and affordable design bundle allows me to create designs I was unable to create before. Designing takes a fraction of the time. I can be more creative, and the tools are a pleasure to use.” Rhonda Shechtman, Senior Designer at **Esprit**

The design of textiles now demands speed, accuracy and embedded data.

The patterns we create are no longer single use, and in a digitized world, their final product form, material application and flexibility must now be considered and often incorporated into the original artwork.

In a digital world, file format and design integrity are now of primary importance.

Design is now data.

What was once purely visual must now become adaptive. The creative function of the surface pattern design and the print designer has evolved. The speed and creativity of design is paramount regardless of origination.

Whether it’s digital pixels or a hand-drawn pattern, all creatives must adapt. In the past, a combination of hybrid tools (online and offline) were used by pre-production teams to take a designer's original pattern and prepare it for final production. Over the years, the creator or the printer has increasingly onboarded this responsibility.

Design software is now an essential tool for designers.

Aquario Textile Designer offers a comprehensive bundle of professional apparel and textile design tools with which to prepare and perfect the origination and production of a textile pattern or product.

Now available as a direct plugin for Photoshop and Illustrator, Aquario’s affordability, simplicity and depth of function deliver a powerful additional toolbox for pattern, product design and printed reproduction. The plugin can be used seamlessly alongside your Adobe workflow in real time and allow you to apply your favorite tools.

Design in real time and visualize the repeated pattern as you create.

Create and amend with pixel precision and automatic accuracy. The Aquario Designer plugin simplifies the creative workflow, offering online tools for instant surface pattern creation and visualization. Modify, edit and track your amends to build balanced, repeated designs in multiple repeat layouts at any scale in minutes. Once created, your files can be adapted infinitely and adjusted with the click of a button.

**AquarioTD™ Colorist**

“"We’re excited to have partnered with Aquario Design to ensure that the repeats and colorways of the print are captured accurately and exported as PDF, in a way that’s compatible with the Adobe PDF Print Engine that powers digital print solutions from numerous RIP and printer vendors.” Mike Scrutton **ADOBE**

Colorways can be created and previewed in seconds and spot colours assigned to meet Pantone or a predefined seasonal palette. Use the color reduction tool to simplify and or automate colorway creation and fine tune your pattern for the perfect print. Export colorways for presentation or physical printing with embedded color management. Aquario Design software supports PNG, JPEG, TIF, PSD and PDF, which are compatible with Adobe PDF print engine RIPS.

“The Aquario Designer plugin has become indispensable to me. This easy and affordable design bundle allows me to create designs I was unable to create before. Designing takes a fraction of the time. I can be more creative, and the tools are a pleasure to use.” Rhonda Shechtman, Senior Designer at Esprit, said.

Prepare print files in seconds and embed essential information.

Preparing printed patterns for production with accuracy eliminates wasted time, resources and printed materials. Each and every subtle element of the textile designer’s artwork must be considered and replicated to create a physical twin of the digital file. As digital retail continues to evolve, we must ensure that the products we create digitally meet our expectations for the physical product produced.

“Being able to reproduce prints that have been created by designers exactly as they intended, with no surprises, is supremely important,” commented Mike Scrutton, Director of Print Technology and Strategy at Adobe. “We’re excited to have partnered with Aquario Design to ensure that the repeats and colorways of the print are captured accurately and exported as PDF, in a way that’s compatible with the Adobe PDF Print Engine that powers digital print solutions from numerous RIP and printer vendors.”

“By embedding both the design and additional information about how the print is to be reproduced (the “what” and the “how”) in the PDF, we’re able to ease the communication during the handoff to the printer or mill, which saves time and reduces the chance of errors,” Mike Scrutton said.