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Interior Design Software

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:29:08 +0000

DreamDraper is the only software to completely integrate exquisite window treatment designs with Space Planning and Room Elevation functionality in one program. It was also the first software with the ability to create custom client proposals and optional Quoting functionality. With DreamDraper products, you can design a treatment and the surrounding room. Then, show clients exactly what their home will look like when you’re done, and quote a price on the spot!

The most comprehensive. The easiest to use.

Hundreds of designs and thousands of design components are supplemented by generous collections of hardware, trim, and embellishments to inspire your creativity and help up-sell.

With the new G5 Gold you can create beautiful, realistic designs faster than ever before, all to scale and with unlimited colors and fabric patterns…

Design on a photo skewed at any angle with our perspective and free distort tools (shown left)
Create original room elevations to digitally replicate your client’s walls exactly
BREAK-APART™ technology lets you easily modify any window treatment design
Add any color or fabric pattern to all or parts of your design
Position treatments behind furniture in seconds with our unique photo cropping capability.
Add furniture, fabrics and accessories from virtually any vendor website without unwanted backgrounds
Transfer colors and complete fabric patterns with our dual eye droppers

Try it out! Download your free trial today.

Maximize the software for your business with exclusive DreamDraper features for speed and customization…

Organization. All components for a design or pattern are located in one area – no tedious searching through clip art!

Search. Quickly find your designs and components with a key word or pattern number. The only program to let you search any way you want – by name, pattern number, or component type.

Gold Buttons. View full designs for inspiration – and with just a single click on our gold buttons view all of the components that make up that design. Then you’re on your way to fast and easy customization so you can create your own designs and add your personal creative touch!

Rename. Customize the program’s library of treatments with your own names.

My Favorites. Create your own “favorites” section to cut down on time spend searching for your most-used designs.

Your Name Here. Add your company name and logo to every design!

Learn more about the DreamDraper Design Library.

With our combination of unlimited, flexible options and ease of use, you’ll be sure to close more sales faster!

Supremely Realistic Designs – all hand-illustrated by artists

All DreamDraper illustrations have been hand drawn by professional artists to avoid the computer-generated, cookie-cutter look typical of other programs and then digitized by professional graphic designers. And only DreamDraper features completed designs which can be quickly ungrouped into component parts for easy modification of size, shape, color, or pattern.

We show our designs as black and white line drawings to accentuate their quality and avoid the tendency to see a design only with the colors shown.

DreamDraper has the full range of window treatment designs – from traditional to contemporary, simple to complex.

The exclusive Design Library includes hardware and designs from well-known designers and vendors such as: Amore, Graber, Iron Art by Orion, Kasmir Fabrics, Lady Ann Fabrics, LaVelle Pinder, M’Fay Patterns, Pate Meadows, Patterns Plus, Rainbow Woods, Sarkis Studios, Parkhill Royale designs, and Nika Stewart.

Used by the Best

DreamDraper renderings have been used by award-winning designers on HGTV’s Designers’ Challenge, the International Window Coverings Expo Design Competition, and others. DreamDraper has been recognized as “Best of Market,” and DreamDraper renderings are featured in national publications and textbooks including Karla Nielson’s Interior Textiles, Taunton’s Window Treatment Idea Book, and Charles Randall’s The Window Decorating Book. It has even been used by students at the renowned Parsons New School for Design.

If you aspire to join the ranks of award-winning designers, DreamDraper is THE program which provides the beauty, attention to detail, and flexibility to showcase YOUR creativity!

On Sale $679 – Save $369!

Check out our Showcase Gallery to see what other designers have created with DreamDraper!

Quick Reference Guide

All DreamDraper packages now come with our new Quick Reference guide, a valuable resource for both new and experienced DreamDraper users to help them design faster and benefit from the full capabilities of the program.

This easy to follow guide is also available by itself for $49, with FREE SHIPPING!

Topics covered in this comprehensive illustrated guide include file organization, basic commands and toolbar functions, Design Library, Break-Apart designs, scale, working with colors and fabrics, importing fabrics, furniture and accessories from the web, and more!

Competitive Upgrades

Are you unhappy with the software you invested in from another vendor? Would you like to switch to a superior program that is easier to use and has greater capability?

We understand, and are willing to help you transition to DreamDraper with a significant price discount!

Please contact our office at 1-866-56-DREAM to learn more about this attractively priced opportunity.

Upgrade to G5 Gold!

If you already have the DreamDraper G-series software installed on your computer, upgrade now to the G5 Gold edition! You’ll love creating beautiful designs faster and easier than ever with our new TKO™ Total Knockout, Free Distort, Enhanced Right Click, Quick Fill and other upgraded features! Find out what’s new

M’Fay 2 Collection – NEW!

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:40:59 +0000

The M’Fay 2 Collection is our second add-on set of beautifully detailed window treatment patterns from M’Fay, featuring 25 new designs – ranging in style from traditional patterns (like the Queen Ann Valance) and soft cornices to contemporary styles (including M’Fay’s recent Medallion Swag series and Shaped Tiebacks!).

These must-have designs are all created with our innovative and exclusive BREAK-APART™ design technology. This allows you to ungroup the components of each treatment with just a single click on the gold buttons – so you can be sure to please your clients with limitless design options!

Upon purchase, designs download directly into your G5 Design Library. Learn more about the Design Library. All new downloads of add-on design collections can be applied only to the most recent release of the DreamDraper program (Gold 2.x). If your program has not been upgraded to this release, please also include the Gold upgrade with your collection order.

On Sale Now for $89 – Save $10!

Please be ready to enter your DreamDraper serial # after clicking “Add to Cart.”

The Trifecta

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:39:33 +0000

The Trifecta

All of the BREAK-APART™ designs from our add-on design collections -

Bedding 1 Collection (50 designs)
M’Fay 1 Collection (50 designs)
M’Fay 2 Collection (25 designs)

totaling almost 1,000 design elements!

$397 – By purchasing this bundle, save a total of $200!

Please be ready to enter your DreamDraper serial # after clicking “Add to Cart.”

Designs download directly to your G5 Design Library. Please note that all new downloads of add-on design collections can be applied only to the most recent release of the DreamDraper® program (Gold 2.x). If your program has not been upgraded to this release, please also include the Gold upgrade with your collection order.

dreamDraper G5 Gold

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:34:23 +0000

The most comprehensive. The easiest to use.

Hundreds of designs and thousands of design components are supplemented by generous collections of hardware, trim, and embellishments to inspire your creativity and help up-sell.

With the new G5 Gold you can create beautiful, realistic designs faster than ever before, all to scale and with unlimited colors and fabric patterns…

Design on a photo skewed at any angle with our perspective and free distort tools (shown left)
Create original room elevations to digitally replicate your client’s walls exactly
BREAK-APART™ technology lets you easily modify any window treatment design
Add any color or fabric pattern to all or parts of your design
Position treatments behind furniture in seconds with our unique photo cropping capability.
Add furniture, fabrics and accessories from virtually any vendor website without unwanted backgrounds
Transfer colors and complete fabric patterns with our dual eye droppers

Try it out! Download your free trial today.

Maximize the software for your business with exclusive DreamDraper features for speed and customization…

Organization. All components for a design or pattern are located in one area – no tedious searching through clip art!

Search. Quickly find your designs and components with a key word or pattern number. The only program to let you search any way you want – by name, pattern number, or component type.

Rename. Customize the program’s library of treatments with your own names.

My Favorites. Create your own “favorites” section to cut down on time spend searching for your most-used designs.

Your Name Here. Add your company name and logo to every design!

Learn more about the DreamDraper Design Library.

With our combination of unlimited, flexible options and ease of use, you’ll be sure to close more sales faster!

Supremely Realistic Designs – all hand-illustrated by artists

We show our designs as black and white line drawings to accentuate their quality and avoid the tendency to see a design only with the colors shown.

DreamDraper has the full range of window treatment designs – from traditional to contemporary, simple to complex.

Used by the Best

If you aspire to join the ranks of award-winning designers, DreamDraper is THE program which provides the beauty, attention to detail, and flexibility to showcase YOUR creativity!

On Sale $679 – Save $369!

Check out our Showcase Gallery to see what other designers have created with DreamDraper!

Quick Reference Guide

This easy to follow guide is also available by itself for $49, with FREE SHIPPING!

Competitive Upgrades

Are you unhappy with the software you invested in from another vendor? Would you like to switch to a superior program that is easier to use and has greater capability?

We understand, and are willing to help you transition to DreamDraper with a significant price discount!

Please contact our office at 1-866-56-DREAM to learn more about this attractively priced opportunity.

Upgrade to G5 Gold!

What’s New in G5 Gold?

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:33:29 +0000

The latest DreamDraper® release! Looking to upgrade?

The new and exclusive capabilities of the DreamDraper G5 Gold edition make it even faster, easier and more versatile. You’ll quickly appreciate the greater efficiency and customer impact through fewer steps, fewer clicks of the mouse, and even more design freedom! Now is the time to step up and take your business to the next level with DreamDraper G5 Gold!

Plus, another benefit of upgrading is that you will be able to download any of the current or future add-on design collections directly into your design library!

TKO™: Total Knockout Removes Multiple-Color Backgrounds

In 2007, DreamDraper first introduced the color knockout tool, allowing you to incorporate photographic images of furniture and accessories into your design and knockout the background color with a single click of the mouse.

With the new TKO™ Total Knockout tool, we’ve made this function of the software both easier and more comprehensive in ability! Now, you can remove multiple colors from photographic images and control the transparency level of each color, all from your DreamDraper design canvas.

As shown above, our TKO™ tool allows you to remove multiple colors from a photo and specify the amount of each color that is removed (transparency level). TKO™ gives you total control and offers you more realistic results when including photographic images of furniture and other accessories in your rendering. The result is shown at left. Use the Eyedropper tool to quickly remove all unwanted colors from the image. Another innovation from DreamDraper!

Free Distort: Freeform Skew

The DreamDraper G-Series has always given you the ability to transform a design from a straight front-on view to a perspective view using the Perspective Tool, which allows you to simultaneously and perfectly control the degree of perspective by “turning” the design to fit any window, side wall or corner window.

The G5 Gold release includes a new Free Distort tool that allows you to asymmetrically change each and any side of the design, independently. The illustration at right shows how the upper left corner of the window treatment was skewed downwards using the Free Distort tool, without affected the other three corners of the design.

The new Free Distort tool allows you to skew any corner of a DreamDraper design in any direction – upwards or downwards, inwards or outwards.

DreamDraper G5 Gold gives you both options – simultaneous skewing with the previous Perspective tool or asymmetrical skewing with the new Free Distort tool! Use them independently or in conjunction with one another. Nothing could be easier for creating and perfecting designs shown on side walls, corner windows, or bay and bow windows.

Enhanced Right Click

The Right Click feature has been enhanced to now include access to all commands located in the top toolbar, as illustrated below. Just select an object on the canvas (such as the swag section of the window treatment shown below) and right-click with your mouse to have easy access to commands:

Quick Fill™: Fill with color, fabric or textures with a single click!

With the G5 Gold edition of DreamDraper, you can fill your design without having to switch to the Custom Fill Mode (second arrow)! You still have access to the advanced second arrow feature if you want to fill a specific part of a design without ever having to ungroup it!

Ease of Use: Enhancements reduce # of steps or mouse clicks!

With G5 Gold, we’ve streamlined the program to eliminate unnecessary steps and mouse clicks on many commands.

Design Library – new “go back” feature to return to the previous location when searching for designs
Enhanced Search - to be quicker, more flexible and easier to use
Expanded Edit Preferences – now you can specify to use the SHIFT or CTRL key to size objects proportionately or draw perfectly straight lines

Quick Reference Guide

This easy to follow guide is also available by itself for $49 – FREE SHIPPING! Click here to purchase

Go for the Gold and upgrade your current DreamDraper system!

If you already have the DreamDraper G-series software installed on your computer, upgrade now to the G5 Gold edition!

You’ll love creating beautiful designs faster and easier than ever with our new…

TKO™, Free Distort, Enhanced Right Click, Quick Fill™ and other upgraded features!

On Sale Now for $238 – Save $60!

Please be ready to enter your DreamDraper serial # after clicking “Add to Cart.”

BREAK-APART Designs

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:32:34 +0000

Only DreamDraper gives you the option to work with either full designs or design components – that’s because all of our designs are created with our exclusive BREAK-APART™ technology, so you can mix and match components exactly as you want (shown left).

BREAK-APART™ technology gives you the freedom to quickly search our Design Library 2 ways – by design or component – and choose the most appropriate style for your client’s home!

Only DreamDraper gives you complete freedom and the choice to…

start designing with one of our finished BREAK-APART™ designs – hundreds are included!
or build your own creation from scratch using our vast library of components – 4,000 to choose from!

Then, with just one click on our exclusive “Gold Buttons,” display all of the individual components of that design for ease of customization – or, with just one entry in our Search function, display all designs or components in a particular category – for example, M’Fay, swags, or bedding.

DreamDraper is the only software that allows you to search for both full designs and individual components – you have complete freedom over what you can create for your clients! Either way, nothing could be faster or easier for you to mix and match for unlimited creativity.

How does it work?

Whether creating fabulous elevation drawings or sketching floor plans, look in the preview window (see the illustration at left) and spot the Gold Buttons located in the corner.

Just browse through the design library, find the design of your choice, click on the Gold Buttons and – VOILA!

As shown at left, the browser will display all components that make up the design, including other style variations and any hardware or trim.

Where applicable, the Preview and Browser windows will also display pattern, hardware, or trim company information, and other descriptions for your convenience.

The design shown in the Preview Window at left is the Bordeaux Valance (M’Fay 9208), which includes the style variations shown below (see also the thumbnail views along with breakouts in the browser).

Remember, GOLD BUTTONS. Make sure to always look for them when browsing through Hard Treatments, Soft Treatments, Furniture – even our Space Planning templates! When searching for sofas and chairs, check out our “sets.”

For example, select a sofa, click the Gold Buttons, and VOILA!

You will see the sofa along with its matching loveseats, chairs, sectional pieces, or even matching ottomans – Nothing could be easier!

The Gold Buttons, along with DreamDraper’s exclusive Search and Favorites features, make finding your designs and components a breeze!

COMPONENTS. In addition to our finished BREAK-APART™ Designs, DreamDraper comes with a comprehensive library of components for all your needs. Choose from literally thousands of individual swags, cascades, panels, finials, shades, accessory pieces, and more!

Remember, only DreamDraper gives you the choice!

Hundreds of finished BREAK-APART™ Designs

Thousands of components

Click image to enlarge

Design-On-A-Photo

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:31:47 +0000

DreamDraper further innovated window treatment design software by introducing the concept of “designing on a photo,” which allows you to demonstrate to a client exactly how your window treatment design will look in their home!

It’s as easy as 1-2-3.

Take a photo of your client’s room or window to use as a virtual canvas.
Using DreamDraper, design the window treatment directly on top of the photo (as shown in the top, center image below).
Add colors, fabrics and textures (as shown in the lower left image below).

Amaze your clients with a finished treatment that looks just like your DreamDraper rendering!

Is furniture in your way (like the sofa shown below)?

Use DreamDraper’s photo crop functionality to quickly reposition the treatment behind furniture. No other software is required!

Another innovation from DreamDraper!