How and when to use Custom AI
Revolutionize Your Product Photography with Custom AI
In today’s fast-paced digital world, captivating product visuals are no longer a luxury—they’re essential. Whether you’re an e-commerce retailer, a marketing professional, or a small business owner, stunning images are your gateway to customer engagement and increased sales. Enter Claid's Custom AI, a groundbreaking feature designed to enable multiple perspectives and use by human models for your product photography, by leveraging your own trained AI with profound understanding of the characteristics of your product from a small collection of representative photographs.
In this guide, we’ll explore how this tool works, best practices for getting the most out of it, and how it can help scale your business.
Here you will learn more about:
What is Custom AI?
Key Values
Unique benefits of Custom AI compared to Claid AI Background Generation Tools
How to Use Custom AI
Key Uses
Who is Custom AI For?
How Custom AI Helps Scale Businesses
When Custom AI May Fall Short
Conclusion
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What is Custom AI?
Custom AI by Claid is a new tool designed to create particularly challenging professional-quality lifestyle and product images without the need for traditional photoshoots, specifically for achieving images from diverse perspectives and for depictions of products in interaction with the human body or undergoing deformations.
By training an AI model on your unique product images, you can capture the identity of the product to achieve high-quality visuals tailored to any setting. This powerful feature is a game-changer for businesses looking to reduce costs and speed up content creation while maintaining brand integrity in verticals that require very diverse results such as interior design or fashion.
Key Values
Versatility: The unique benefits of Custom AI is that it allows photoshoots in arbitrary angles and for products to be shown under deformations, particularly those that occur from interaction with human models. This becomes possible because the trained AI understands the nature of the product more generally, as opposed to the rest of our pipelines where the generation is only producing backgrounds that makes sense given the exact appearance (pixels) of the product in a single product photo, except some scaling as specified by the placement of the product on the canvas
Efficiency: Eliminate the need for lengthy and costly photoshoots. Custom AI enables the creation of professional shots in minutes from a small collection of representative photos, significantly reducing time to market.
Cost-Effectiveness: Bypass expenses associated with hiring photographers, models, and renting studio spaces. Custom AI allows for the creation of equally stunning images at a fraction of the cost.
Flexibility: Generate visuals suitable for websites, social media, advertising, and more. Customize settings to create images with or without virtual models in different backgrounds and perspectives, showcasing products interacting with the human body or undergoing deformation.
Consistency: Maintain a cohesive and professional aesthetic across all product images, ensuring brand identity is preserved.
Unique benefits of Custom AI compared to Claid AI Background Generation Tools:
While Claid AI's background generation tools are adept at creating diverse backgrounds for product images, they primarily focus on enhancing the environment around a static product image. In contrast, Custom AI offers:
Dynamic Perspective Generation: Custom AI allows for the generation of images from various angles and perspectives, providing a more comprehensive visual representation of the product.
Human Interaction Depiction: It enables the depiction of products in interaction with human models, showcasing how products appear when worn or used, which is particularly beneficial for fashion and lifestyle products.
Product Deformation Representation: Custom AI can illustrate products undergoing deformations, such as clothing folds or accessory adjustments, offering a realistic portrayal of the product in use.
💡 Try also: Generate from Template: Claid Templates & Generate from Text
How to Use Custom AI
Train Your Custom AI:
Upload 10-20 high-quality images of your product. These images should capture your product from different angles, different backgrounds, on different models (if any), poses and styles to help the AI model understand its unique features. Add the model name and describe the product or topic after the model identifier. For example: "White sneakers with black laces", "Brown suede hat".
At least 3 image samples are needed for the model to start working. However, the more samples, the better results! We recommend uploading at least 10 diverse product photo samples for great performance
💡 Here are some tips for uploading photos:
Include a variety of poses, angles, backgrounds, and styles
Use 10-20 clear, relevant images
Avoid images that don’t show the product entirely
Avoid blurry, watermarked, or ambiguous images
Upload high-resolution images (at least 1 MP). Avoid significantly lower resolutions, as it may affect training quality
Once your sample images are uploaded, hit the Train model button:
Generate Lifestyle Photos:
Once the AI is trained, you can use it to create a variety of lifestyle images. Input specific prompts to define the background, setting, or overall vibe of the image you need.
Explore the automatically generated prompts, adjust them to your exact requirements. Give us the lowdown on who's wearing or interacting with the product, the background setting, lighting, vibe, and overall style:
Adjust the aspect ratio before generating to match your individual expectations
Use Advanced settings to control the balance between concept strength, speed and quality of generation, accuracy of the given prompt and images you'd like generated:
💡 Concept strength controls the influence of the training images. Optimal works well for most images, but if you need more freedom to change away from the training images select Low. If your product is not rendered with all correct details try High.
💡 Speed and quality: slower generation gives you more polished results, but sometimes you may want to iterate quickly without perfecting every detail.
💡 Prompt accuracy: If your images are not adhering to the prompt, try Strict. If your images are not depicting the product correctly, try Flexible.
Review and Refine:
After generating images, review them to make sure they meet your expectations. If necessary, you can tweak the prompts or train the model again with more sophisticated and varied images to improve results.
For a step-by-step walkthrough, check out this tutorial video:
Key Uses
Custom AI offers unparalleled versatility. Here are some of its most impactful applications:
E-Commerce Listings:
Enhance product pages with compelling lifestyle images that drive clicks and conversions.
Social Media Campaigns:
Create eye-catching visuals tailored to Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms.
Digital Ads:
Quickly produce diverse images for A/B testing to optimize ad performance.
Product Catalogs:
Develop consistent, professional product catalogs for both digital and print use.
Seasonal Promotions:
Generate holiday- or event-themed visuals without needing additional photoshoots.
Who is Custom AI For?
Custom AI is designed to benefit a wide range of users:
Online Retailers: Improve product presentation, leading to higher engagement and sales.
Marketing Professionals: Easily generate visuals tailored to specific campaigns.
Small Businesses: Access professional imagery without the need for large budgets.
Content Creators: Quickly develop high-quality visuals for various media.
How Custom AI Helps Scale Businesses
Rapid Content Creation: Roll out new product visuals quickly, allowing faster launches and promotions.
Market Adaptability: Customize images for regional, cultural, or seasonal preferences, expanding your reach effortlessly.
Increased ROI: With reduced production costs and higher-quality visuals, Custom AI helps maximize your return on investment.
Consistency at Scale: Ensure brand alignment across all visuals, no matter the volume of content required.
When Custom AI May Fall Short
While Custom AI is a powerful tool, it’s essential to recognize its limitations:
🚨 Complex Products: Items with intricate textures, like jewelry or reflective surfaces, may require extra care to ensure accuracy. Stay tuned for improvement in smart training coming soon!
🚨 Low-Quality Inputs: Poor quality, or insufficiently diverse images can lead to subpar results. Always invest in high-quality product photography for training.
🚨 Requires curation: not all the generated photos will render the product perfectly, but some percentage of them will.
Conclusion
Claid’s Custom AI is a revolutionary tool for businesses looking to streamline their visual content creation. While background generation tools enhance the setting around a product, Custom AI provides a holistic approach by understanding and replicating the product itself in various contexts, interactions, and perspectives, delivering a more versatile and dynamic visual solution.
Ready to take your product photography to the next level? Try Claid’s Custom AI today and experience the future of visual content creation.
Read more
Train Custom AI: Generate stunning lifestyle shots without limits
Сustom AI: Instant lifestyle shots for your products
How to Train Custom AI and Generate Fashion & Lifestyle Photos of Your Products
What are Claid AI Background generation tools
Generate Background: Overview
Using Background Generation for your eCommerce business
Background Generation using Claid API
Video Guide: How to generate backgrounds in my brand colors?
Video Guide: How to write prompts for AI product photos
Updated on: 17/01/2025
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