Loocie Design vs neoTextil

Loocie Design is a web-based Studio for turning artwork motifs into seamless repeating patterns for fabric, wallpaper, wrapping, stationery, and print-on-demand products. It is free during its beta and works on desktop, tablet, and phone. It is not a drawing app: users create motifs elsewhere and bring them into Studio. Extract accepts PNG, JPG, WEBP, and SVG files, detects and cleans motifs from a sheet, then sends sprites to Make Tile. Make Tile arranges motifs over solid or patterned grounds and exports print-ready PNGs. Repeat options include Brick, Half-drop, Grid, Diamond, and Scatter, with a background layer and up to four motif layers. Preview displays the repeating tile full-screen and checks vertical, horizontal, and four-corner joins. Projects can be downloaded as.loocie files containing sprites, layout, and background. Signed-in uploads are private per account, while site files are automatically deleted after a short time. Sprite Clean is an experimental single-motif cleanup tool, and results may be rough.

neoTextil is a package of Adobe Photoshop plug-ins for textile design professionals, available on Windows and macOS. Its modules address color separation, color variants, pattern repeats, and visual previews. nT Masquerade automatically separates colors and exports designs as multichannel files. nT Colorations creates variants from owned or imported color libraries and supports RGB, CMYK, and LAB. nT Step&Repeat makes horizontal or vertical repeats, with settings that can be adjusted in real time. nT Virtual Vision simulates designs on environments, models, or objects for catalogs and product presentations. Buyers can choose the complete package or individual modules, and the maker offers a free 30-day trial; pricing is available on request. Listed operating systems are Mac OS X 1.9 or higher, including Big Sur, and Windows 7 or higher. Supported Photoshop versions are CC 64-bit, CC 2015, CC 2015.5, CC 2017, and CC 2018. The minimum equipment listed is 4 GB RAM and a 500 GB hard drive, with 16 GB RAM recommended. Support includes weekday phone service, email responses within 24 hours, and remote or on-site help.