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Generating every colourway from one photograph

Name the colour, or show it. A name is a range and a photograph of a swatch is a value.

  1. 01

    Shoot the piece once

    Any colourway you actually hold. That set becomes the anchor for the rest, which is why the variants share a model and a room.

  2. 02

    Name the colour for a range

    Typing a colour lands somewhere inside what that name covers, which is wider than most people expect. Fine for a seasonal shade, risky for a house colour.

  3. 03

    Show the swatch when it matters

    Upload a photograph of the cloth. A photograph carries a value rather than a range, which is what you need when a customer will compare the listing against the fabric.

  4. 04

    Check the print

    On a printed piece the motif and its layout are preserved while the palette shifts. Look at the motif scale in the first variant before running the other seven.

  5. 05

    Keep them together

    Generate the colourways from the finished set rather than from scratch, so they sit together on the listing instead of looking like separate shoots.