Used to hate AI art until I saw what it did for my product photos

I run a small Etsy shop selling custom mugs out of my apartment in Austin. For two years I was spending every Sunday taking photos with a lightbox and editing them in GIMP, maybe 4 hours a week. Then last month I tried an AI background generator to replace my messy desk shots. It cut my photo time down to 45 minutes and my sales actually went up 15% because the images look cleaner. I still tweak the prompts a few times to get it right, but the results are way better than my old setup. Has anyone else had luck using AI tools for small biz stuff like this?

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jenkins.reese3d ago

Those AI pics just make everything look fake and the same now.

bennett.mason3d ago

Did you mean I gotta start lying about my "home studio" setup on the blueprint just to keep up with these AI photos? Honestly, I used to spend half a day wrestling with GIMP layers and still ended up with a thumb in the shot half the time. Might have to borrow that idea for my own side hustle pics.