Lately my shop’s been dropping new items fast, and booking a photographer takes a whole week. Couldn’t take it anymore, so I tried using a text-to-image API to generate white-background product shots. For prompts like “white sneakers in a clean studio background,” it’s fast—a few seconds per image, super convenient for bulk generation.
But honestly, what it can replace is mainly the background and atmosphere. The shoe shape, logo, stitching details on the main image still need real shooting or retouching—AI blurs them and it looks fake, returns would go up. My current workflow is: shoot the product itself, then use AI to add scenes and seasonal vibes—like swapping the same pair of sneakers between a summer beach and a winter fireplace, generating a dozen atmospheric shots at once for the detail pages.
Click-through rates have actually gone up. Wondering if anyone here sells AI-generated images directly as main product shots, and whether the platform flags that as a violation.