What You Need to Get Started
All you need is a smartphone with a decent camera, a clean surface, natural light from a window, and an AI photo editing app. That is it. No studio, no lighting kit, no DSLR, no Photoshop. The AI tools we will cover handle background removal, color correction, retouching, and scene creation. Your job is simply to capture a clear, well-lit photo of your product.
Step 1: Shoot Your Raw Photos
Place your product on a clean, solid-colored surface near a window for natural light. Shoot from multiple angles: front, side, top-down, and detail close-ups. Use your phone's portrait mode for depth of field. Take at least 10 photos of each product from different angles and distances. Do not worry about the background — AI will handle that. Focus on sharp focus, good lighting, and showing the product clearly.
Step 2: Remove Backgrounds and Clean Up
Open Photoroom or Pixelcut and batch-import your photos. The AI removes backgrounds in seconds, leaving clean cutouts of your products. Use the magic eraser to remove any blemishes, dust, or imperfections. The AI color correction adjusts white balance so your product colors are accurate. Export the clean cutouts — these are your base product images.
Step 3: Create Professional Product Scenes
Now comes the creative part. Use Flair.ai to place your product into lifestyle scenes: a skincare bottle on a marble bathroom shelf, a handmade candle on a cozy wooden table, a piece of jewelry on a velvet display. Use Photoroom's Instant Backgrounds to generate scene-specific backgrounds with a text description. Create at least one clean white-background image (required by most marketplaces) and two to three lifestyle images for maximum impact.
Step 4: Optimize and Upload
Resize your images to meet marketplace requirements (Etsy recommends 2000x2000 pixels minimum). Use the AI upscaler if your originals are not high enough resolution. Create a consistent look across your entire catalog by using the same background style and color scheme. Upload your optimized images and watch your click-through rates improve. Most sellers see a noticeable difference within the first week after upgrading their product photography with AI tools.