You don’t need a studio. Wardrobe is built to work with ordinary phone photos and cleans them up for you. But a few small habits make the record sharper and the extracted details more accurate. Here is what helps most.
Find soft, even light
Natural daylight near a window is ideal. Avoid harsh direct sun, which blows out colour, and dim yellow bulbs, which shift it. Even, soft light gives the truest colour — which matters when you later search by “deep red” or “emerald”.
Use a plain, contrasting background
Lay the garment on a plain bed, a wall, or the floor in a colour that contrasts with the fabric — a light saree against a dark sheet, a dark sherwani against a pale one. A clean background helps the garment stand out and produces a better final image.
Show the whole garment, flat and uncrumpled
Smooth out folds and lay the piece flat or hang it so its full shape is visible. For a saree, showing the pallu and border helps; for a lehenga or kurta set, capture each part. The more the photo shows, the more the record can capture.
Add close-ups for detail
Send an extra shot of the work — the zari border, the embroidery, a distinctive motif — and of the blouse or dupatta. You can send several photos of one garment together and they are grouped as a single item, so the record holds both the full view and the details.
Capture matching pieces in the same batch
Photograph the blouse with its saree, the dupatta with its lehenga. Doing it in one go makes it easy to link them into a set so the matching piece is never lost.
Just send it — editing comes later
Don’t overthink it. Send the photo over WhatsApp, Telegram, or the web; Wardrobe generates a clean image and reads the details, and you can correct anything afterwards. A good-enough photo today beats a perfect one you never get around to taking.
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