Online Ordering with Garment Preview by Consumer Before Manufacture

A method comprising:

• providing an ordering tool, accessible to a user via a mobile device, comprising a digital design tool that displays a preview image of a finished garment, and the ordering tool generates a user order corresponding to the finished garment;
• and
• generating the preview image comprising
• generating an adjusted base image from a selected base template for the finished garment without a selected finishing pattern for the finished garment,
• generating a pattern mask based on data associated with the selected finishing pattern,
• for a pixel at a pixel location of the preview image, obtaining a first contribution by combining a first value associated with a pixel of the pattern mask at a pattern mask pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the preview image and a value of a pixel of the selected base template at a base template pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the preview image,
• for the pixel at the pixel location of the preview image, obtaining a second contribution by combining a second value associated with the pixel of the pattern mask at the pattern mask pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the preview image and a value of a pixel of the adjusted base image at an adjusted base image pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the preview image, and
• combining the first contribution and second contribution to obtain a combined value for the pixel at the pixel location of the preview image, wherein when the pixel of the preview image is displayed, a color of the pixel corresponds to the combined value.

A method comprising:

• providing an ordering tool, accessible to a user via a network, comprising a digital design tool that displays a preview image of a finished garment, the ordering tool generates a user order corresponding to the finished garment;
• generating the preview image comprising
• generating an adjusted base image from a selected base template for the finished garment without a selected finishing pattern for the finished garment,
• generating a pattern mask based on data associated with the selected finishing pattern,
• for a pixel at a pixel location of the preview image, obtaining a first contribution by combining a first value associated with a pixel of the pattern mask at a pattern mask pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the preview image and a value of a pixel of the selected base template at a base template pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the preview image,
• for the pixel at the pixel location of the preview image, obtaining a second contribution by combining a second value associated with the pixel of the pattern mask at the pattern mask pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the preview image and a value of a pixel of the adjusted base image at an adjusted base image pixel location that corresponds to the pixel location of the preview image, and
• combining the first contribution and second contribution to obtain a combined value for the pixel at the pixel location of the preview image, wherein when the pixel of the preview image is displayed, a color of the pixel corresponds to the combined value.