The situation
Online stores need more photos than they can shoot: a clean shot for the listing, a lifestyle scene for the homepage, a seasonal version for the holiday sale, a square for the feed and a tall one for stories. A studio day for every new product or season is rarely in the budget, and phone shots on the kitchen table look like phone shots on the kitchen table.
The catch with AI images is honesty. A product photo has to show the product the customer will receive. The useful kind of AI here keeps your product exactly as it is and changes only the scene around it.
The aiKit tools for this job
- Photo Studio: Your product mode keeps your real item and builds scenes around it; looks, sizes and upscale finish the job.
- Magic Canvas: Turns the photo into a sale post, a banner or a print piece.
- Mockup Studio: Puts your logo or art on products for merch and packaging shots.
Step by step
Choose Your product
Upload a photo of the product. It is cut out and kept pixel for pixel, and 10 suggested scenes appear; or describe your own.
Photo Studio →Pick the looks and size
Click looks from samples, such as lighting, camera and color mood, or an industry pack, and pick a size from Social, Web or Print.
Photo Studio →Make 1 to 8 at once
Leave the model on Auto or pick one, choose how many, and press Make. The cost shows on the button first.
Photo Studio →Change it by words
Open a picture big and type a change such as "warmer light, add a linen cloth", or press More like this.
Photo Studio →Upscale and use it
Upscale 2× free on your computer or 4× Print-sharp, download it, or Send to Magic Canvas, Video Kit or Mockup Studio. Every picture saves to your Graphics Library.
Photo Studio →
Examples
A candle in three seasons
Wick & Willow, an invented candle shop, uploads one photo of its cedar candle and makes a fall cabin scene, a bright spring windowsill and a holiday table, with the candle and label unchanged in all three.
A sale banner in minutes
Copper Kettle Goods picks its favorite of eight mug scenes, sends it to Magic Canvas, and adds "20% off this weekend" for a homepage banner and a post.
Packaging before it exists
A coffee roaster puts its new label art on a stand-up pouch in Mockup Studio to show wholesale buyers before the first print run.
Tips
- Use Your product for anything you sell, so the photo shows the exact item the customer receives.
- Shoot the source photo in even light against a plain background; the cut-out is cleaner.
- Pick the size before you make the picture, so it is trimmed to the exact shape for its channel.
- Use Words in the picture when a scene needs readable text.