First of all, it’s important to find the right balance between quality and cost. For the cost part, we will use a cardboard box, a stack of sheet of tracing paper and an LED light for our lighting setup. For the image capture, we want to look at using the best process possible, so for our tests, we used an iPhone 6s and iPhone 7 as our camera with the Adobe Lightroom mobile app.

This app allows you to capture in RAW (uncompressed) format on iOS and Android. Adobe Lightroom also has some very nice features such as full manual shooting and High Dynamic Range modes. However, you can find other apps like ProCam on the App Store or Camerafv5 for Android.

With Substance Designer 6, we have a new filter named Multi-angle to Normal that has 8 possible inputs. To use the filter, we have to produce 8 images at 45° around our material.