Digital Fashion Pro Review – An Inside View

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We wanted to take a little time to give you an inside review of Digital Fashion Pro Fashion Design Software Program. In case you don’t know Digital Fashion Pro is a fashion design tool that helps many fashion designers design their clothing collections and create their garment sketches. This review is not about the features of the program because you can read about those on the Official Page for it. This review is about what makes it a great program to use.
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The first thing to know is that it is highly affordable especially for a tool that delivers professional results. Consider the fact that many other programs cost more and some even have monthly and yearly fees. With Digital Fashion Pro you pay one time and you have a lifetime license.
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The next thing is the program is more than just a software. It comes with a fashion course / basic fashion design training that really teaches users how to create professional fashion sketches. Many times you can look at the sketches or artist renderings and wonder how easy or hard is it to make the same thing. With Digital Fashion Pro it is a guaranteed that you will be able to make professional caliber sketches right after training. 
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Digital Fashion Pro comes with customizable garment templates. This is really awesome because it gives you a framework in which to create your designs from for uniformity. But the other cool thing is all of the templates can be stretched, shrunk, modified, altered etc. so that you can make the design your own. This also cuts down on repetition in the design process. For instance, do you want to keep drawing the same jean outline over and over just to add your design or a new fabric choice? Or do you want to be able to have the framework set and you just proceed right to the design aspect.
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Another awesome point about Digital Fashion Pro that users and we love is how you can incorporate digital fabrics into your design. While certain pages come with more fabrics it is also terrific that you can add your own. For example say you have a certain print that you are using for your collection. What if you have a certain fabric or knit that you will using for the season? Once these items are scanned in or are already in digital format – you can easily incorporate the fabric or print into your designs. This allows you to see how the design will look on a garment.
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How to design your own clothing
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To further the last point, you can also add artwork and logos. So if you have a logo or artwork you can put it on the templates. This accomplishes two things – you can see how the logo will look on the garment. The 2nd thing is you can play with placement and scale. Both of these points come in very handy and are almost impossible to do by hand unless you have a lot of time on your hands.
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Another benefit of Digital Fashion Pro is how it helps you plan your collection. You can experiment with so many different elements of your design from color choices, fabric choices, logo placement, slogans etc. It helps you with selecting which version or versions of your designs you want to produce. Just recently I was designing some Tees and had a few versions. I asked a few fashion bloggers which one they liked the best and interesting enough – they all chose the same one. That told me that was the one I should produce. Interesting side note; the one they chose was not the one I was originally going with. Having multiple versions and the ability to share them with others allowed me to get better feedback on which design I should invest in.
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Jean Design - Digital Fashion Design Infographic - how to design jean sketch
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Another point about Digital Fashion Pro is you will be creating manufacturer-ready sketches. This is important because manufacturers prefer cad sketches over hand sketches. There are many reasons for this including digital sketches are cleaner, more professional and in many cases represent the vision more accurately. This allows the manufacturer to have a better understanding of the design so that they can make it with a better degree of quality. Also keep in mind that with Digital Fashion Pro you will mostly be making detailed practical designs that resemble how a garment will actual look. Compare that to many hand sketches that mostly are to promote the artistic ability of the artist with sketches that are artistic in nature. For manufacturing, artistic sketches are not the standard or recommended. Practical designs that help a manufacturer or sample maker know how the design should really look are the most helpful. Detailed computer sketches are the standard in manufacturing.
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The fashion design course aspect of Digital Fashion Pro actually goes beyond basic training. Users learn so many useful things about design and designing a clothing line. While there is the basic training which is very detailed, there is also additional advance training that teaches some really cool design techniques + basic graphic design. Again for the price, what you learn and all of the features – Digital Fashion Pro is a steal. Digital Fashion Pro puts users in position to create professional sketches which I believe is the most important benefit.
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Digital Fashion Pro must have upgrades are Beyond the Basics (Technical Sketches), Style Pack (More garment styles), Digital Fabric Library, Mega Vector Art Pack, Designer Series 1 and 2. These are some of my favorite upgrades. The Designer Series templates are really neat. This series mostly follows current fashion trends and have templates with a little more detail and most are styled. When you add fabric and design to them they look really nice. 
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Fashion design software - how to draw digital fashion sketch drawings
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Digital Fashion Pro Video

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 More About Digital Fashion Pro & How It Works 

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These are just a few reasons why I love Digital Fashion Pro. Of course there are many ways to create a sketch. Digital Fashion Pro is one of the best ways to do it. It is super easy to use even for beginners which is another plus. I highly recommend it especially for beginners who are starting a clothing line. The example sketches speak for themselves. See what other clients say about Digital Fashion Pro. 
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For More information on Digital Fashion Pro visit the Official Digital Fashion Pro Page.
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Review by John Thomas 

8 Comments

    • The StartMYLine.com Team

      Yes. Digital Fashion Pro works on MacBooks and Macs as well as Windows. Thanks for writing Carl. If you have any other questions let us know.

    • The StartMYLine.com Team

      Hi Kevin, There is not a free trial because Digital Fashion Pro is not just a software. It is a course, templates and fabrics wrapped in one. It has a lot of content so unfortunately it can’t be sent out in a trial format. However, there is the Digital Fashion Pro Guarantee that it works on all computers meeting posted system requirements. It is definitely easy to use and the training / course that is included is easy to follow and gives step by step detail. Here is a link to videos you can watch on it to see it in action – https://startmyline.com/videos/. Anyone can use it to design. If you want to be able to create sketches like the examples ones you see – you will definitely be able to. You also get free technical support. Definitely an awesome program to help beginners design like pros.

    • The StartMYLine.com Team

      Digital Fashion Pro is very easy. Using it does not rely on your drawing ability. Plus it is very beginner friendly with amazing tutorials so that you can get to creating your designs almost immediately.

  • Harvey Gilmore

    Been using Fashion Pro since 2011 and just upgraded to version 9. Great program and I am always happy to tell people about it. and your customer service is outstanding. I called you guys a few times with questions and the staff is always polite and helpful. really appreciate your help

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