Just upload a reference image to edit — traditional photo editors really need a wake-up call

Logging today’s work.

Product shots needed background swaps, ad images needed lighting tweaks, and one account needed a new avatar plus a bit of portrait reshaping. Used to be this was a whole day’s work — cutting out subjects till your eyes glazed over, easily half a day per image. Today it was just dropping in a reference image with a one-line prompt, and going through background swap, lighting adjustment, and product image rework one by one. Subject and composition stayed intact for the most part, and output speed multiplied several times over.

Didn’t touch layers or shortcuts once — learning curve is basically zero.

Fingers and edges are still the usual weak spot, it can’t handle those, so you still have to go back and clean up by hand. But that first-draft step really got a lot faster.

For product shots I usually batch-process a base pass first, then hand-fix a few — saves time

Keeping the subject and composition intact is the key part, a lot of tools warp things after editing

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