Home Twitter | e-mail | Privacy policy

Paper Designer

Design beautiful textures

Paper Designer lets you create beautiful, tiling paper-like backgrounds and brush textures.

Combine simple patterns with noise, add colour and set the lighting for a paper like look. The resulting texture image can be used with your drawing app to create a brush that simulates real paper grain.

Available on Mac, iPad and iPhone.

Application screenshot Application screenshot
Application screenshot Application screenshot

What's new

New in version 1.7.0

  • All patterns are now available in free version.
  • New paper shading options.
  • Improved keyboard support.
  • Quick desgn resize.
  • Export texture to selected size.
  • Output gamma setting for paper.
  • Performance improvements.

    • New in version 1.6.0

  • New pattern: Particles.
  • New Pattern: Paper shading - add some irregularity to paper lighting for a more natural look.

    • New in version 1.5.0

  • New bitmap pattern - use any image as a texture
  • Undo and redo operations are now available.
  • Improved keyboard support.

    • New in version 1.4.0

  • New cellular pattern.
  • Texture control gets a brightness slider.
  • Histogram for texture view for better control.
  • 5 new starting designs.

    • New in version 1.3.0

  • Added local contrast control for texture.
  • Added highlight and shadow control for paper rendering for more contrasty designs.
  • More extensive help.
  • Small UI improvements.

    • New in version 1.2.0

  • Wiggle and wrinkle distortions based on Perlin noise.
  • New shape options for stripes and bumps.
  • 4 new starting designs.

    • New in version 1.1.0

  • Export paper to image (JPEG or PNG) of any size (requires full version).
  • Colour drag and drop - drag a colour from a palette manager (like Pastel app) to paper view or colour picker.
  • Document thumbnails - find your designs easily in the document browser (designs saved with previous version need to be opened to get the thumbnail).