Last Updated on October 28, 2024 by SampleBoard
SampleBoard mood board creator software was discontinued in December 2023 after operating for 13 years.
With SampleBoard's discontinuation, users need alternative mood board creation software.
This guide provides a basic overview of the available options. This post will keep evolving...
Finding the perfect replacement for SampleBoard depends on your specific needs and workflow. Consider these options, categorized by their strengths.
For Similar Features and Ease of Use
A widely popular design platform that's a breeze to use, offering a user-friendly interface, pre-made templates, and a vast library of images and elements.
While not exclusively a mood board tool, its adaptability and simplicity make it an excellent choice for creating effective mood boards. It offers both free and paid plans.
To use Canva.com for interior design sample board design, you can follow these steps:
Browse Templates:
Canva boasts extensive mood board templates tailored for various themes and aesthetics. Explore these templates and select one that aligns with your design vision.
You’ll find options catering to contemporary, rustic, minimalist, and eclectic styles, making it easier to find inspiration that resonates with your project.
Create a Mood Board:
Mood boards, also known as design boards, are invaluable in interior design. They help consolidate ideas and set the tone for a project.
Within Canva, you can easily customize your chosen template by adding specific elements, such as colors, textures, and images representing your intended design theme.
Use the drag-and-drop feature to harmonize your materials and ensure they tell a cohesive story.
Get Inspired:
If you’re seeking inspiration for your interior design project, Canva provides numerous resources, including educational articles and design tips.
You can also browse Canva’s image library for stunning visuals that enhance your sample board.
This wealth of creative ideas can help you discover new styles or elements to incorporate into your design.
By integrating Canva's user-friendly templates and expansive design tools, you can craft visually striking interior design sample boards that effectively communicate your concepts and elevate your presentations for clients or projects.
Mattoboard is an innovative online platform that effortlessly empowers designers to create stunning 3D material boards.
Unlike traditional 2D mood boards, these boards allow you to visualize your design concepts more realistically and immersively.
MattoBoard offers a seamless design experience that embraces professional creativity while prioritizing sustainability. It operates with zero waste.
The platform enables users to construct visually captivating and interactive boards in seconds, leveraging realistic 3D digital twins of materials.
This enhances the design process and facilitates collaboration and sharing of ideas among stakeholders.
With MattoBoard, you can elevate your presentations and streamline your workflow, making it an essential tool for architects, interior designers, and anyone involved in the creative fields.
Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator
Industry-standard software provides extensive editing capabilities and tools for creating highly polished mood boards. These are powerful but require a steeper learning curve and a paid subscription.
Figma
A versatile and collaborative design tool popular among professionals.
It empowers you to create complex mood boards and collaborate with your team, making it a great choice for advanced projects. It offers both free and paid plans.
Before making a decision, consider these factors:
Many of these alternatives offer free trials or free plans, allowing you to experiment and find the best fit before committing to a paid subscription.
Review each option's features and pricing models to determine which best meets your requirements.
Firstly, we made New SampleBoard, the digital mood board creator, more powerful than ever so that you can be more creative and efficient.
A very warm welcome, fellow creative, to SampleBoard!
Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride as we take you on a journey through some of our most favourite aspects of SampleBoard, the digital mood board creator.
Let’s take a peek at some of our most exciting new features, inspired by the best users a software program could ask for. (That’s you!)
With our brand new Background Remover, you can make the backgrounds in your photos disappear with a single click.
All you have to do is sign up for SampleBoard Professional to access this amazing feature.
And, as an additional bonus, you can save your transparent image back to your computer as a PNG file (which will maintain the transparent background) to use again later!
There are many reasons to remove the background of a photo: to get rid of visual clutter, to clean up a product photo for display, or to cut out an item in the foreground to use in a layered moodboard design.
It’s really super simple and incredibly fast.
No more installing of bookmarklets or tedious photo grabber tools!
Now you can instantly import a product photo from any vendor or website with just one click.
Visit your favourite vendors and online shops, search Google Images or Pinterest, and save any image or product photo straight onto your mood board canvas with our handy image address importer.
A powerful solution that automatically generates detailed product lists for each mood board, simplifying your product procurement process.
The first part of interior design is the creative and visual “moodboarding” stage and the second part becomes more “technical”.
The actual procurement and purchasing of products proposed on the moodboard happens after the moodboard design is created, presented and approved by the client.
This is a very time intensive second stage – often filled with many obstacles.
For instance, some designers choose to create mood board designs using items from popular retail vendors only.
And subsequently provide the final, approved mood board, with the purchase list, to the client to handle the details (also known as ‘shop the look yourself’).
This option has become a standard e-design service offering for many of our customers.
But on the other hand, traditional interior designers still handle the FF&E (Furniture, Fixture and Equipment) purchasing.
It simply means purchasing all the approved goods on behalf of the client - and this is only logistically possible if you reside in the same area as your client.
Most importantly, with SampleBoard, each detail of the product can be specified and priced with the following details:
The cost of the mood board items will auto-magically add up and total your purchase list price for you.
In addition, you can even upload your business logo to keep that professional image and choose to export as a PDF document ready to present to your client, or insert it into Excel for further editing.
Choose between custom, print or social media canvas sizes with instant canvas resizing for any type of moodboard.
Firstly, you can adjust the canvas size at any time during your creation.
So for instance, if you started with a landscape orientation, but then decide portrait or square would be a better choice, you can easily change the canvas width and height by changing the pixels.
Don’t waste time starting from scratch! In New SampleBoard, the digital mood board creator, you can quickly resize your canvas, no matter what stage of editing you’re in.
For newbies to the moodboarding game, or those looking for inspiration - we recommend you begin with a pre-designed template.
In short, you have a busy life and definitely don’t need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to making stunning mood boards from scratch.
As a result, we offer many gorgeous, designer-made templates so you can get your projects going pronto. All of the templates in New SampleBoard are pre-designed with images, text, and colorways.
Pick your favorite and customize it — add your own image, change the fonts, or brand it with your corporate colors and logo.
Start with a template and use it as a foundation to create beautiful and professional mood boards.
And as a bonus, we’ll keep adding more templates as design trends emerge!
So we’re not just saving you time, but we’re keeping you on trend and on point. Epic
SampleBoard has partnered with Unsplash, known for their beautiful photography, to give you unlimited access to free stock photos right from within New SampleBoard.
Consequently, now it’s easier than ever to add unique, conceptual images to your mood boards, without the need to purchase any.
Therefore, you don’t have to leave your project to go looking for a stock photo to download and then upload to SampleBoard —they’re already here.
Free to use, with no attribution necessary, you can search stock photos by colors or keywords. Elevate your conceptual phase of your moodboarding journey with New SampleBoard's mood board creator!
If you want to add text to your canvas in ways that enhance your mood board creation, we've got what you need.
Our tools like drop shadow and handwriting style text put us way ahead of other design platforms.
SampleBoard enables you to share your moodboard instantly.
You can invite team members to your mood board and give them editing permission. This is ideal for groups of designers who all need access to the same mood boards.
Like remote teams that want to easily work out design ideas in real time. Or small businesses that need to create, store, and share their creative ideas.
Sharing your work in progress with clients to view and comment on your mood board is vital. Receiving in-progress feedback is an essential capability for designers creating mood boards for a client.
Mood boards are the only way of quickly and quite literally getting you and your client on the same page.
Collaboration helps your client to visualize your design concepts and ideas you’ve discussed before committing to specific fabrics, furniture, color schemes, or a specific layout.
But most importantly, we know designers want to get feedback in the most painless way possible so they can continue doing what they love best—designing!
Your mood board draft will not be seen as the final product but rather as a conversation starter, allowing you to discuss the most important issue of all—the concept.
Thank you for being part of our journey in developing the best mood board creation software out there! You rock!
Ready to try out New SampleBoard? Create a mood board today!
