Mix Anarchy with Design.
Like Backdrop Designer, our Texture Anarchy plugins for Photoshop are procedural texture generators. Texture Anarchy is a wonderful companion tool to Backdrop Designer. It is a little more complex to use because it creates a more sophisticated, flexible image. In fact, Texture Anarchy is the software that we use to create Backdop Designer's Texture and Shadow presets.
About Texture Anarchy
Texture Anarchy is a set of three Photoshop filters for creating textures and borders. You can create a massive variety of seamless, infinite textures. Read more about Texture Anarchy here. Texture Anarchy and Backdrop Designer both use procedural patterns to design their images. Procedural textures are commonly used to simulate naturalistic effects such as fire, smoke, water, clouds, and marble. They are often made out of 'fractal noise', which are grayscale abstract patterns. This is why many of the textures created by our software look organic or natural. |
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A screen from the Texture Anarchy Explorer interface. |
Create Backdrop presets with Texture.
In Backdrop Designer, you can create new Combo presets by pairing a premade Texture preset and Shadow preset. But where do these presets come from? Why, a stork, of course! Otherwise… we make them with our Texture Anarchy filters. This Photoshop software is a deeper way of working with algorithm-generated, procedural patterns. One of the three filters, Texture Explorer, creates Backdrop Designer's presets.
How they work together.
Once you have created a new image inside Texture Anarchy, just save that as a .prs file. Those files can be moved on your hard drive from the Texture Anarchy directory to the Backdrop Designer directory. Voila! New Backdrop Designer presets for the Texture or Shadow Windows. Backdrop Designer is simpler and faster to work in, which makes it a great repository for Texture Anarchy presets.
Texture Explorer mixes together a Backdrop Designer preset from different fractal noise patterns. |
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Which product do you need?
Should you buy one or both of these products? That depends upon what your work is.
For photographers. Backdrop Designer is more of a photographer's tool. It lets you customize pre-made textures. It's a tool for the busy photographer who wants to spend most of her time behind the camera, not the computer.
For designers. In comparison, Texture Anarchy gives you the opportunity to really manipulate those textures, or even create ones from scratch. This product is geared towards the experimental designer who actually likes to sit behind a computer and play in Photoshop!
For both. Why would you want both? If you're a photographer who enjoys experimenting on the computer. Or if you're a designer who is also a photography hobbyist. As we mentioned earlier, you can use Texture Anarchy to make presets for use in Backdrop Designer.
Discount together. Using Backdrop and Texture together is a pretty cool way to work. To make this easier, we offer a discounted Backdrop/Texture Duo bundle.