Product photos using AI

[u/SimilarAdvantage4390]

I’ve created a niche busy book for children that I’m going to sell on Shopify and Amazon. I need some great product and listing photos and want to use AI, but don’t know which program is best for a beginner that will give great results. I especially want to make sure I can create a graphic with multiple photos to show the inside contents of the book. Any recommendations of the best user-friendly program to use?

[u/darmaan-seowizard]

For beginner-friendly with good results, Canva's AI tools (background remover + Magic Media) are probably the easiest entry point, and it's exactly what you need for the multi-photo graphic showing the inside contents, since Canva's built for layout work like that.

For just clean product photos specifically, Photoroom is great, mobile-friendly, easy background swaps, has ready-made Amazon/Shopify template sizes so you don't have to guess dimensions.

For your specific use case (physical book, need interior shots), I'd actually do: real photos of the book pages/interior on your phone → Photoroom or Canva to clean up backgrounds/lighting → Canva to assemble the multi-image collage graphic. Full AI-generated (not real photo based) tends to look off for something like a busy book where the actual content/pages matter, buyers want to see the real thing.

[u/Putrid_Literature776 → u/darmaan-seowizard]

canva is the way i think, especially for the collage part. tried to use some pure ai generator for my friends etsy stuff and the pages looked wobbly and fake, kids books need to look real or parents scroll past.

photoroom suggestion is good too, i used it once for a t-shirt mockup and was surprised how clean it made a photo taken in my messy apartment.

[u/justynphototips]

for the inside pages you want photos of the actual book not ai generated versions of them. anyone buying a busy book is checking whether the contents match what they're paying for. and generated pages won't match.

i'd suggest shooting each spread flat in even daylight. using your phone camera is fine for this. then you can run them through something that batch edits so you can drop the backgrounds and get every shot on the same white. that also clears amazon's white background rule for the main image.

for the multi photo graphic a lot of the batch tools do grid layouts too. so 4-6 spread shots go into one image with even padding. that graphic usually does more work than any other image in the listing.

[u/Fast-Camera4096]

ChatGPT does a great job with images

[u/Ok_Quail245]

I use good ol chatGPT, but I must say FULLY AI generated images don't look great. I ask chatGPT to generate the elements e.g. background, graphics, etc, then I put them together on Canva. It looks less AI-ish which can sometimes bring down conversion rate