I slashed my last product shoot budget from $4,800 to zero after testing three free AI tools that now produce all the visuals for my ecommerce experiments.
Step 1: Generate studio-quality shots with Ideogram
I start every campaign by feeding Ideogram simple prompts like “white sneaker on marble pedestal, soft natural light, 45-degree angle.” The free tier gives me 25 images daily. Last month I created 180 product angles for my store and A/B tested them, lifting click-through rates by 27%. No studio, no lighting kits, no reshoots.
Step 2: Clean and composite with Photopea
Next I open the Ideogram output in Photopea, the free browser-based Photoshop clone. I remove stray shadows with the clone stamp, adjust exposure curves, and drop the product onto new lifestyle backgrounds I generate separately. This step takes under eight minutes per image and has saved me roughly $1,200 in retouching fees since January.
Step 3: Remove backgrounds instantly with Remove.bg
For pure e-commerce listings I drag the cleaned image into Remove.bg. The free allowance handles 50 high-resolution files monthly. I export transparent PNGs straight into my product database and feed them to my scroll-stopping ad maker for ad variants. The entire pipeline now runs in under 20 minutes per SKU.
After running these three tools across 12 product launches, my total photography spend dropped to $0 while visual output tripled. The same three-step workflow works whether you sell sneakers, supplements, or electronics.
I’m Didar, the founder of AdLoft — an AI ad creative platform turning product photos into professional ads. I write here about the stuff I’m building and what’s working.