What is an AI product photo generator?

An AI product photo generator (or AI product image generator) is an AI tool that re-lights, re-backgrounds, or re-stages a real image of your product using artificial intelligence, instead of booking a physical studio shoot. Upload one existing photo, and the AI generated product shots come back with new lighting, generated backgrounds, and scene direction.

How much does it cost compared to a studio shoot?

Professional product photography runs $40-70 per image at standard studio rates. This free AI product photography pass works from a photo you already have, replacing the per-image studio cost and saving time on every seasonal refresh.

How long does a studio shoot normally take?

Standard turnaround for a professional product photoshoot is 5-10 business days. AI generation returns generated product photos in under a minute.

Does this replace the product itself in the photo?

No. The AI re-lights and re-stages the existing photo. The product in the AI generated images is the same product from your source photo, not a generated substitute. Great for creating product shots that stay on-brand across your catalog and social media.

Can it remove backgrounds too?

Yes. The generator can remove backgrounds from your source photo and place your product on clean AI backgrounds, so you can skip a manual photo editing pass before publishing.

What's the difference between studio, lifestyle, and outdoor?

Studio gives a clean, neutral background with even lighting, best for marketplace listings. Lifestyle places the product in a real-world setting appropriate to its category. Outdoor uses natural daylight and an outdoor scene.

Can I use the output for Amazon or Shopify listings?

Yes, as long as the output meets the marketplace's own image requirements, most commonly a plain background for the primary listing image. The studio scene is built for this.

What products work best with this?

Products where lighting and background are the main variable: cookware, skincare, electronics, home goods. Fine fabric texture and complex reflective surfaces are harder to re-light convincingly.

Can I generate multiple variants of the same product?

Yes. Re-run the same source photo through a different scene to get studio, lifestyle, and outdoor versions without a new shoot.

When does a real photographer still win?

Fine fabric texture close-ups, complex reflective surfaces (jewelry, glassware), and shots requiring precise physical styling are harder to re-light convincingly. For these, a real shoot still produces a better result.

Does this work for every product category?

It works best for products where lighting and background changes carry most of the visual difference. It struggles more with products where the physical material detail itself is the selling point.

Can small stores use this instead of hiring a photographer?

Yes, especially for straightforward re-lights and marketplace-compliance photos where a $40-70/image studio rate isn't justified by the complexity of the shot.

How does Intempt handle this at scale?

The product reshoot recipe runs this same re-lighting pass automatically from a prompt, for teams doing this weekly across a catalog rather than one photo at a time. For the full cost comparison against a studio shoot, see our tool comparison post.

The AI Product Photo Generator for Ecommerce

The AI Product Photo Generator for Ecommerce | Intempt