neoTextil vs Tiler

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.

Tiler creates seamless repeating patterns from artwork you supply. Set a field in millimeters, add SVG artwork, then place motifs by hand or scatter them using controls for count, size, size variation, rotation, mirroring, and spacing. Choose straight, half-drop, half-brick, or mirror repeats. Individual placements can retain their colors or use one ink, with separate opacity controls; backgrounds can be a ground or transparent. Export a true-size SVG tile, a PNG at 72–600 dpi, or a PDF sheet in several page sizes. The SVG stays vector, while the PDF sheet is rasterized at the selected resolution. SVG is the only supported input, so photographs and scans need tracing before import. Tiler runs in a web browser and requires no account. BoxLab says artwork is read, drawn, and written in the browser, not uploaded, and script-capable content is stripped from imported SVGs. It presents the tool for gift wrap, textiles, packaging, stationery, print, prepress, and screen backgrounds.