Everything the app does, in the order you’ll do it. No code needed to read this page.
Fill the frame. This matters more than anything else. Get close enough that the chair or sofa nearly fills the picture, with only a little room around it. A small chair photographed from across the room gives the tool very little to work with, and the result comes back vague and disappointing. If in doubt, take a step closer.
Shoot from a corner, not head on. Stand slightly to one side so you can see three faces of the piece at once — the front, the outside arm, and a little of the inside back. That gives the shape as well as the colour, and it’s what makes the result look like a real photograph of a finished job rather than a flat drawing.
Clear the scene. Take off the throws and the cushions that aren’t part of the job, move the toys, the laundry and the coffee cups, and pull the piece away from a busy background if you can — a plain wall behind it is ideal. Whatever is in the photo stays in the picture. The tidier the shot, the more your customer sees their chair and not their living room.
Daylight, no flash. Flash flattens the texture and throws hard shadows the tool can read as marks on the cloth. And stand back a pace rather than crowding right in, or the phone lens bows the arms and legs.
Flat, smooth, square-on from directly above, filling the frame, in daylight. Iron out creases — they come through as shading. If it’s patterned, get at least one full repeat in shot so the scale reads true; if it has a sheen, tilt until the glare goes.
What it’s honest about. Colour and overall look: good. Pattern scale, drape, pile direction and seam placement: approximate. Use it to answer the first question — roughly right, or plainly wrong? — and let the real sample on the real piece answer the rest. Say that to the customer and it builds trust rather than costing it.
Contrast outsides, contrast piping and contrast buttons are everyday jobs. Tap Add a second fabric under the photo cards and photograph the second swatch. The rule is simple: the whole piece is Fabric A, and you tick only the parts that take the contrast — outside back & outside arms, piping / welt, buttons. Tick nothing and both photos just make one cloth. Only tick a part the piece actually has: the tool reads a tick as an instruction, so ticking buttons on a chair without buttons will give you a chair with buttons.
Shoot from a corner if you want contrast outsides. A camera cannot show a surface that is facing away from it: photograph a chair straight on and its outside back and outer arms are hidden behind it, so a contrast on those panels has nowhere to appear. Stand to one side so an outer arm is in view, and the contrast reads properly. This is the one job where the corner angle matters more than anything else.
It’s still one picture, so it still costs one credit. Worth knowing: fine detail like piping and buttons is the hardest thing for the tool to place exactly, so treat those as an indication rather than a specification; and in a corner shot you often can’t see the outside back at all, so a contrast outside may only show on the arms. Both are worth saying to the customer — it keeps the picture honest.
The four-at-once batch is for trying several fabrics on one piece, so it’s off while a second fabric is loaded.
The sheet is what wins the job. Up to four visualisations on one page with your logo, the fabric names and your prices.
No. £20 buys 100 pictures. No monthly bill, no account, no direct debit. When the code runs out you buy another — like a box of tacks.
No. They sit on the code until you use them, whether that takes a week or two years.
Yes — shop phone, tablet, office computer. They share the same 100 credits, so the balance you see is the true remaining balance everywhere.
It costs nothing. Credits are only spent on pictures that come back, and the app tells you when nothing was used.
Top of the app, next to the name: “73 of 100 left”.
It runs like an app without the app store. On Android, tap Install app in the top bar (or Chrome’s menu → Add to Home screen). On iPhone, in Safari tap Share → Add to Home Screen. You get an icon, full screen, no browser bars — and the camera works exactly the same.
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