A pattern that
stands off the page and is lit like a surface

A raster picture — PNG or JPG — at the pixel size you set. It is a rendered three-dimensional scene, not a vector drawing, because there is no way to state a lit surface in a vector file.

Because the output is a rendered picture rather than artwork for a press. A relief is made of light and shadow, and neither can be handed to a printer as an instruction — so the page is in the units the picture is actually in.

No. Reliefer generates the whole page at the size you set and the pattern runs off all four edges, so you can crop it anywhere without a visible break.

Yes, and it is the same mask Patterner uses: a fade, a circle or a rounded panel, as many as you need, with a feather and a roughened edge. Add one wherever the pattern should give way — around a headline, a logo or a barcode.

Whichever of three answers you choose. Thin takes the height away and leaves a flat impress of the same pattern, so it carries on printed rather than raised. Sink keeps each motif its own size and pushes it down until the ground closes over it. Drop removes motifs outright, thinned evenly over the fall so the edge dissolves instead of tearing.

Because under a perspective camera the motif in the corner is seen from a different angle than the one in the middle, so an even field reads as bulging toward you. An orthographic camera gives every motif the same view, which is what makes a pattern rather than a photograph of a tray of objects.

It tips the camera from straight down to sixty degrees. At nought you see the footprints alone and the depth is read entirely off the raking light and the cast shadow — an embossed board. Past about twenty the side walls come into view and it starts reading as objects on a table.

Most likely the light is too high. At a low tilt the shadow is the only thing saying there is any depth, so bring the elevation down until the relief rakes.

Board, kraft, black card, gloss white, paper white, aluminium and brass — the same figures the Extruder uses, so a picture made here sits beside a mock-up made there. The motifs and the ground are set separately.

Nothing is uploaded. The scene is built and rendered in your browser, and nothing is sent to a server or stored.

Yes. Pictures rendered in Reliefer can be used in commercial projects without attribution.

Yes. There is no account, credit system or watermark.