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title: "What to look for in an AI product photography tool"
canonical: https://withicarus.com/guides/ai-product-photography-tool
site: Icarus
description: "Eight checks before you pick an AI product photography tool: does your product stay exact, does one face hold across a set, and do you own what you make."
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# What to look for in an AI product photography tool

Eight checks before you pick an AI product photography tool: does your product stay exact, does one face hold across a set, and do you own what you make.

Plenty of AI tools make one good picture. A brand needs a whole set that matches its products and its look. These checks tell the difference, and you can run each one on any tool.

## 1. Your product stays exactly the same

If the colour, the logo or the stitching shifts, the picture no longer shows what you sell.

**The check:** Upload your hardest product, one with fine print or a logo, and hold every result up against the real thing.

**In Icarus:** Icarus pins your real product into every shot: its colour, logo and stitching.

## 2. One face holds across a whole set

A campaign falls apart when the model looks like a different person in every frame.

**The check:** Make ten shots of the same model in different scenes and light. Ask whether it is still one person.

**In Icarus:** Face locking keeps one model's face across every shot, through new scenes, poses, outfits and lighting.

## 3. It starts from the photos you already have

A tool that needs a full shoot before it can start has not saved you the shoot.

**The check:** Start with one photo of the product and one clear photo of a face, and see how far that gets you.

**In Icarus:** Icarus works from one photo of your product and one face-focused photo of your model.

## 4. Photos and video come from the same set

Ads and reels need motion, and a video that drifts away from your photos breaks the look.

**The check:** Turn one of your test photos into a short video and check that the product still matches.

**In Icarus:** Any image you make in Icarus can become a video in one step.

## 5. It learns your look

Writing the same instructions every time is slow, and the results wander.

**The check:** Like a few shots you are happy with, then ask for a new one with a short brief. See whether it keeps to your style.

**In Icarus:** Icarus learns from the shots you like and keeps to your look.

## 6. Your team can use it without learning prompts

If only one person can get good results, the tool becomes that person's job.

**The check:** Brief the tool in plain words, the way you would brief a photographer, and judge the first result.

**In Icarus:** Brief it like a creative team, in plain words, and it makes the work in your look. No prompt skills needed.

## 7. You own what you make

You need to use the pictures in ads, listings and print without asking anyone.

**The check:** Read the terms for commercial use, licensing fees and attribution before you make anything you plan to publish.

**In Icarus:** Everything you make in Icarus is yours for commercial use, with no licensing fees and no attribution.

## 8. You see the price before you make anything

A bill you could not predict is the fastest way for a team to stop using a tool.

**The check:** Before you press Generate, look for what that one shot will cost.

**In Icarus:** Icarus shows each shot's price on the Generate button, and every price is on the pricing page.

## Run the checks fairly

Use the same two photos on every tool you try, so you compare like with like, and keep the results side by side. A tool that passes the first two checks on your own product is worth testing on the rest.


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Contact: tanmay@onai.studio