How the Read Works

The service assesses the imaging effects a fabric may produce on camera. It works from three properties read out of your photograph — the pitch of the pattern, the saturation and hue of the colour, and the reflectance of the surface — together with the sampling geometry of the camera category and the distance you state.

It is not a test of your equipment. It has never seen your camera and it does not attempt to characterise it.

Moire is not a fault, a defect, or a sign of a poor image. It is what happens
when one regular grid is sampled by another. A device with a higher resolution
changes the conditions under which it appears; it does not remove it.

This matters because the instinctive response — spend money on a better camera — often changes nothing, and sometimes moves the effect to a distance you are more likely to be standing at.

It is also why no filter, sharpening setting or post-production step removes it. The information that would have separated the two patterns was lost at the moment of sampling, and nothing downstream can put it back.

Every read prints what no change on the day would fix. That list may be empty, but it is never left out and it is never hidden behind a plan.

For some fabrics against some cameras there is no distance within reach of the shot that is clear enough to stand in. When that is the case the service says it in those words, rather than suggesting an adjustment that will not work.

A tool that only ever says try a different angle sends people away to lose half an hour before a shoot. The useful sentence is often the one that says stop.

• Which sensor is actually behind your lens, and at what resolution it records. Two cameras quoting the same resolution can sample a weave completely differently.
• The bitrate anything is compressed at. Compression redistributes fine detail, and interference is fine detail.
• What a platform does to a file after it leaves you. Each one re-encodes in its own way, so the same garment can behave differently in two places for that reason alone.

These three appear on every read, because they are true of every read. They are not a disclaimer bolted onto the end; they are part of the answer.

A clip produced for a read is a simulation illustrating the nature of the effect. It is not footage of your garment, and it is not a prediction of what your camera will record frame by frame.

The clips shown on the public pages of this site are illustrations of the phenomena in general. Every one of them shows flat cloth. None of them contains a person, and none carries an audio track.

Fabric and camera. Nothing about how anyone looks on screen.

The service accepts no photograph of anyone wearing anything, generates no image of a human figure, and gives no advice about how a person appears on camera — including posture, angle, make-up, or what is or is not flattering.

This is a scope decision rather than a caution. Those are different questions with different expertise behind them, and answering them badly would do real harm.

The service offers no advice about selling or presenting, interprets no platform's rules, ranking or algorithm, and makes no judgement about whether an item complies with any platform's policy. Platform rules change often and differ between platforms; rely on each platform's own official guidance.

It recommends no equipment, make or model. It will describe a change in general terms — a larger, softer source further from the cloth — and it will not point you at a product.

Nothing you upload is used to train, fine-tune or evaluate any model. See the Privacy Policy for how long anything is kept and how to delete it.

The service must not be used as an input to any decision about medical care, legal rights, financial or credit standing, insurance, safety, employment, housing, or any judicial or law enforcement matter.

Questions about any of this: support@roxantique.shop.