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Filter Forge vs Substance Designer

A side-by-side look at Filter Forge and Substance Designer. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Filter Forge

Filter Forge

Photos & Graphics

Filter Forge is a powerful Photoshop plugin and standalone application for generating textures, backgrounds, filters, and effects from procedural algorithms. It includes a visual node-based editor to create complex textures without coding.

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Substance Designer

Substance Designer

Photos & Graphics

Substance Designer is a texture creation tool that allows artists to quickly build complex and customized materials. It uses a node-based workflow to create a wide range of textures like metals, fabrics, nature elements and more for use in 3D rendering and game development.

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