🧵 Fabrics in Studio — How to Create a Realistic Look
Learn how to transform fabric manually
If you want your clothes in Pocket Styler Studio to look realistic, textured, and three-dimensional — not just flat and colored — this post is for you! Choosing and adjusting fabric properly is the key to making your design feel believable and alive.
🔍 Why fabric “readability” matters
Fabric conveys the material through:
texture (fabric type and surface);
color and saturation;
shape and drape of the garment.
When the fabric matches the shape and style of your piece, even simple looks feel polished and intentional.
🎯 Examples of visual illusion:
Silk looks soft and flowing when the texture is smooth, the color is moderately saturated, and the shape is curved.
Leather feels stiff and structured when the texture is strong, the color is deep, and the garment has sharp angles.
Fur needs a voluminous shape and strong texture — otherwise, it looks like random noise.
🎨 Helpful tricks:
✔ Want a smooth, shiny effect (like silk or latex)? Lower the texture brightness.
✔ For warm or heavy fabrics (like fur, velvet, leather), boost texture strength and color saturation.
✔ Fabric should support the shape of the outfit — not fight against it.
🛠 How to manually transform fabric:
1. Select the clothing item in the Layers tab.
2. Find the Fabric property.
3. Right-click on the Fabric property and choose Transform.
4. Use the control points to adjust:
- White squares — scale the texture.
- Yellow circles — change width and height.
- Rotating arrow — rotate the texture.
This helps make the fabric look more realistic — for example, by changing the direction of the fur nap.
💡 Tip: Pay close attention to high-rated designs. Notice how others make their fabrics look alive — and try these techniques in your own work.
