AI for Photographers: How Photographers Can Leverage AI Workflows
One of the things we believe at Odyssey is that AI is not the be-all, end-all of a person’s workflow. Instead, we think the best workflows will engrain AI into a person’s processes, enabling them to achieve a result faster or more remarkably while allowing them to focus on the creative parts of their craft.
This is especially true with photography. While there are fears out there that AI will replace photography jobs, we think there's an incredible opportunity to leverage AI workflows to improve, expedite, or scale a photography output - whether you're a professional or an amateur.
Below are three areas we think AI can lead to incredible efficiencies and results for photographers.
Product photography
The simple truth is that e-commerce photography can be hard to DIY but prohibitively expensive for business owners that are just starting out. Yet e-commerce photography is incredibly important and often the difference between a professional-looking site that drives sales and a below average site with a low conversion rate.
There’s also a push and pull between the quality of image assets and the sheer cost. More than ever, business owners have taken to apps like Photoroom to scale their asset production. While these solutions are a good compromise and allow e-commerce businesses to generate hundreds of variations of images for the same product without expensive shoots, the results can often…underwhelm.
AI is not pure magic - especially when it comes to product photos. The better the input image, the better the result. That’s why we see AI as a tool that can help augment photographer workflows rather than replace them.
An AI generated product photo using a gradient and real e-commerce product as an input.
The key for photographers or business owners that are leveraging AI is to find ways to achieve an extremely high bar of quality in a way that AI can make significantly more scalable.
Take, for example, background replacement. While this is the same workflow you’d see in a tool like Photoroom, it’s possible to go even further by adding enough detail to a generated background to make it look professionally shot rather than generated through an AI model by using upscale tools like Odyssey Remake to add detail to a generated background.
Photo Editing
With traditional digital photo editing, batch processing can apply the same set of rules to a string of images. But with ML and AI, you can process images in batches with specific edits that are only applicable to that one image - meaning you can get remarkable results, quickly, for dozens or even hundreds of images at a time.
Once you have a workflow established for product photography, it’s easy to repeat that same workflow on your entire product catalog. This can be as simple as removing the background, adding a colored background, then changing the aspect ratio of an image like in the example below.
AI also makes more traditional photo editing significantly easier. In the past, replacing or removing items from an image required the complexity of Photoshop. AI workflows like inpainting or erase object can enable photographers to edit or remove specific objects within an image without opening a tool like Photoshop.
AI tools like Odyssey Remake can also be used to make subtle changes to a realistic photograph like adding greenery to the windows of a real estate photograph.
Photo Restoration
With AI image generators like Stable Diffusion able to add detail to an image, restoring old photographs has never been easier. Rather than simply upscaling an old image, tools like Odyssey Remake allow you to reimagine photographs as if they were recently taken.
Take, for example, this old street scene.
Next, we can bring the image up to 4k and add a tremendous amount of detail back into the photograph.
Conclusion
These are just a few examples of how AI can supercharge a photography workflow and allow creators o focus on the creative and unique parts of their profession rather than the mundane necessities that come along with it. AI isn't a replacement but just another tool and by building, reusing, and even sharing AI workflows, it's simple to create photography work that's more remarkable than ever before.
AI for Photographers: How Photographers Can Leverage AI Workflows
One of the things we believe at Odyssey is that AI is not the be-all, end-all of a person’s workflow. Instead, we think the best workflows will engrain AI into a person’s processes, enabling them to achieve a result faster or more remarkably while allowing them to focus on the creative parts of their craft.
This is especially true with photography. While there are fears out there that AI will replace photography jobs, we think there's an incredible opportunity to leverage AI workflows to improve, expedite, or scale a photography output - whether you're a professional or an amateur.
Below are three areas we think AI can lead to incredible efficiencies and results for photographers.
Product photography
The simple truth is that e-commerce photography can be hard to DIY but prohibitively expensive for business owners that are just starting out. Yet e-commerce photography is incredibly important and often the difference between a professional-looking site that drives sales and a below average site with a low conversion rate.
There’s also a push and pull between the quality of image assets and the sheer cost. More than ever, business owners have taken to apps like Photoroom to scale their asset production. While these solutions are a good compromise and allow e-commerce businesses to generate hundreds of variations of images for the same product without expensive shoots, the results can often…underwhelm.
AI is not pure magic - especially when it comes to product photos. The better the input image, the better the result. That’s why we see AI as a tool that can help augment photographer workflows rather than replace them.
An AI generated product photo using a gradient and real e-commerce product as an input.
The key for photographers or business owners that are leveraging AI is to find ways to achieve an extremely high bar of quality in a way that AI can make significantly more scalable.
Take, for example, background replacement. While this is the same workflow you’d see in a tool like Photoroom, it’s possible to go even further by adding enough detail to a generated background to make it look professionally shot rather than generated through an AI model by using upscale tools like Odyssey Remake to add detail to a generated background.
Photo Editing
With traditional digital photo editing, batch processing can apply the same set of rules to a string of images. But with ML and AI, you can process images in batches with specific edits that are only applicable to that one image - meaning you can get remarkable results, quickly, for dozens or even hundreds of images at a time.
Once you have a workflow established for product photography, it’s easy to repeat that same workflow on your entire product catalog. This can be as simple as removing the background, adding a colored background, then changing the aspect ratio of an image like in the example below.
AI also makes more traditional photo editing significantly easier. In the past, replacing or removing items from an image required the complexity of Photoshop. AI workflows like inpainting or erase object can enable photographers to edit or remove specific objects within an image without opening a tool like Photoshop.
AI tools like Odyssey Remake can also be used to make subtle changes to a realistic photograph like adding greenery to the windows of a real estate photograph.
Photo Restoration
With AI image generators like Stable Diffusion able to add detail to an image, restoring old photographs has never been easier. Rather than simply upscaling an old image, tools like Odyssey Remake allow you to reimagine photographs as if they were recently taken.
Take, for example, this old street scene.
Next, we can bring the image up to 4k and add a tremendous amount of detail back into the photograph.
Conclusion
These are just a few examples of how AI can supercharge a photography workflow and allow creators o focus on the creative and unique parts of their profession rather than the mundane necessities that come along with it. AI isn't a replacement but just another tool and by building, reusing, and even sharing AI workflows, it's simple to create photography work that's more remarkable than ever before.
AI for Photographers: How Photographers Can Leverage AI Workflows
One of the things we believe at Odyssey is that AI is not the be-all, end-all of a person’s workflow. Instead, we think the best workflows will engrain AI into a person’s processes, enabling them to achieve a result faster or more remarkably while allowing them to focus on the creative parts of their craft.
This is especially true with photography. While there are fears out there that AI will replace photography jobs, we think there's an incredible opportunity to leverage AI workflows to improve, expedite, or scale a photography output - whether you're a professional or an amateur.
Below are three areas we think AI can lead to incredible efficiencies and results for photographers.
Product photography
The simple truth is that e-commerce photography can be hard to DIY but prohibitively expensive for business owners that are just starting out. Yet e-commerce photography is incredibly important and often the difference between a professional-looking site that drives sales and a below average site with a low conversion rate.
There’s also a push and pull between the quality of image assets and the sheer cost. More than ever, business owners have taken to apps like Photoroom to scale their asset production. While these solutions are a good compromise and allow e-commerce businesses to generate hundreds of variations of images for the same product without expensive shoots, the results can often…underwhelm.
AI is not pure magic - especially when it comes to product photos. The better the input image, the better the result. That’s why we see AI as a tool that can help augment photographer workflows rather than replace them.
An AI generated product photo using a gradient and real e-commerce product as an input.
The key for photographers or business owners that are leveraging AI is to find ways to achieve an extremely high bar of quality in a way that AI can make significantly more scalable.
Take, for example, background replacement. While this is the same workflow you’d see in a tool like Photoroom, it’s possible to go even further by adding enough detail to a generated background to make it look professionally shot rather than generated through an AI model by using upscale tools like Odyssey Remake to add detail to a generated background.
Photo Editing
With traditional digital photo editing, batch processing can apply the same set of rules to a string of images. But with ML and AI, you can process images in batches with specific edits that are only applicable to that one image - meaning you can get remarkable results, quickly, for dozens or even hundreds of images at a time.
Once you have a workflow established for product photography, it’s easy to repeat that same workflow on your entire product catalog. This can be as simple as removing the background, adding a colored background, then changing the aspect ratio of an image like in the example below.
AI also makes more traditional photo editing significantly easier. In the past, replacing or removing items from an image required the complexity of Photoshop. AI workflows like inpainting or erase object can enable photographers to edit or remove specific objects within an image without opening a tool like Photoshop.
AI tools like Odyssey Remake can also be used to make subtle changes to a realistic photograph like adding greenery to the windows of a real estate photograph.
Photo Restoration
With AI image generators like Stable Diffusion able to add detail to an image, restoring old photographs has never been easier. Rather than simply upscaling an old image, tools like Odyssey Remake allow you to reimagine photographs as if they were recently taken.
Take, for example, this old street scene.
Next, we can bring the image up to 4k and add a tremendous amount of detail back into the photograph.
Conclusion
These are just a few examples of how AI can supercharge a photography workflow and allow creators o focus on the creative and unique parts of their profession rather than the mundane necessities that come along with it. AI isn't a replacement but just another tool and by building, reusing, and even sharing AI workflows, it's simple to create photography work that's more remarkable than ever before.
