# Photo Studio

:::hint{type="info" title="Premium"}
The Photo Studio is a Premium tool, including smart framing and the grey mannequin.
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A clothing pack sells on its screenshots. The **Photo studio** turns your items into clean, consistent store shots, ready for your store page, CFX thread or Discord, straight out of the tool. It uses the live 3D preview, so the shot has the same lighting, backdrop and ped as the viewport, and the viewport stays as you left it.

## Opening it

- Click the camera icon on the 3D preview bar (**Save a photo of the model**).
- Or open it on a saved outfit: **Appearance → Outfit → Photo studio**, or **Photo** in the outfit dresser. See [Appearance Menu](/cloth-tool/about-the-tool/appearance-menu).

## Taking a photo

:::frame{caption="The Photo studio window."}
![The Photo studio window with format, size, aspect, framing, camera and background options and a preview of the garment on a transparent background](https://pub-57d6558d0e204696b4cdeee5d172e561.r2.dev/cloth-tool/features/photo-studio.03944003fc.webp)
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:::steps
### Pick the output
Choose the **Format**, **Size** and **Aspect**.

### Frame the shot
Choose the **Framing** and **Angle**. The **Preview** on the right shows what the shutter will take, over the background it will be saved on.

### Choose the background
Pick **Background**, and whether to include the ped.

### Save
Click **Save photo…** and choose where to save it.
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## Output

| Setting | Options |
| --- | --- |
| **Format** | PNG, WEBP or JPG. WEBP and JPG have a **Quality** slider; PNG is lossless. |
| **Size** | 512, 1024, 2048 or 4096 pixels, the **Viewport** size, or **Custom** **Width** and **Height**. |
| **Aspect** | 1:1, 4:5, 3:2, 16:9 or the **Viewport**'s. |

The output size in pixels is shown under the settings. If your graphics driver cannot render that large, the size is limited and the window says so.

## Framing

New in 2.0.8: smart framing per garment type.

| Framing | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| **Smart** | Frames the garment itself, from where a catalogue shoots that kind of garment. |
| **Whole scene** | Centres the model and fits it to the shot, whatever the viewport shows. **Margin** sets the space around it. |
| **As seen** | Shoots exactly what the viewport shows. |

With **Smart**, a panel lets you adjust the camera for the garment's **Category**: Tops, Legs, Shoes, Hats & hair, Masks, Glasses, Earrings, Watches & bracelets, Gloves or Other. The category is detected from the item; you can pick another.

| Control | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| **Camera** | The angle the category is shot from. |
| **Height** | How high the camera sits. |
| **Breathing room** | How much space around the garment. |
| **Show** | **Garment**, **With body around**, or **Whole ped**. |

Your changes are saved for every item of that category, in single shots and in batches. **Default** puts the category's camera back. If the ped is posed by an animation, smart framing frames the whole scene instead.

**Angle** shoots from the framing's own angle (**Category** with Smart, **Current** otherwise), **Front**, **Back**, **Left**, **Right**, or **All**. **All** saves four files per shot, named `_front`, `_back`, `_left` and `_right`.

## Background and ped

| Setting | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| **Background** | **Viewport** (the preview's backdrop), **Transparent**, or **Solid** with a colour (white, black, light grey or your own). JPG has no transparency. |
| **Include ped body** | Off shoots only the garment. |
| **Grey ped (mannequin)** | A neutral grey body, like Blender's clay. The garment keeps its textures. New in 2.0.8. |

While the Photo studio is open, the viewport behind it shows the grey mannequin too, so you see what the shot will have.

## Photographing every item

**Photograph every item…** shoots every item in the project with the settings above, into a folder you choose. Each item gets its own category's camera when framing is **Smart**. **Prefix** adds text before every file name. The button shows progress and **Stop** ends the batch.

The batch is not offered when the studio is open on an outfit.

:::hint{type="success" title="A consistent set"}
Because the lighting, framing and background are fixed, a batch gives you a uniform gallery: the same angle, light and background for every item. Set the time of day in **Viewport options** first, then shoot the whole pack in one pass.
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## Related pages

- [3D Preview](/cloth-tool/about-the-tool/3d-preview)
- [Appearance Menu](/cloth-tool/about-the-tool/appearance-menu)
- [Ped Library](/cloth-tool/about-the-tool/ped-library)
- [Scene Creator](/cloth-tool/about-the-tool/scene-creator)
- [Texture Optimization](/cloth-tool/about-the-tool/texture-optimization)