I've been spending a lot of time playing on both the Dall-E and Night Cafe sites, both of which generate images based on your text input. But I have recently discovered Depix, which takes a whole 'nother approach to putting AI to work.
Rather than creating images from nothing, Depix is for editing existing images you upload, with the singular attraction being the ability to extract something from its background just by clicking on it, applying optional lighting and shadow effects to your extracted object, and creating new compositions with it. If you're thinking, wow, this sounds perfect for making mock-ups, you've got it. 😉
It works with a split-screen view, two canvases at once. On the left is the image you uploaded where you click to keep or remove parts, on the right is what you've extracted from the left and where you build your composition. But once you've extracted the thing you want and chosen a transparent background on the right, you can download that and do all your further work with it in Photoshop or where ever. (But if you continue to edit/create in Depix, you can take advantage of its awesome shadowing tool plus no-layers-required editing).
As first example, here's a screenshot from Depix where my uploaded image (on the left) was one of my Zazzle product in-situs, On the right is what I extracted with only two clicks:
Seriously - only two clicks! With "keep" chosen, I clicked once on an icy part of the glass and once on a colored part of the coaster underneath it and BOOM! - there's my desired subject on a trans background! I can then continue to work with it in Depix or download it and continue work in editor of my choice.
Here's another example of a result I got using Depix. This time I purposefully chose an image where it would be really difficult to remove the background manually in a photo editor.
This one took a lot more than two click to isolate but still it's something I couldn't have done in PS at my skill level, and here I was able to do it just by clicking on parts of the image until I got the result I wanted.
Depix is in beta and is currently free. Once you sign-up (just an email addy and create a password), you get allotted a certain amount of images to start. I think it was 6 or maybe 10? but am not positive on that. Then you get "charged" for each image you upload into the tool (including any of their stock images you might choose to use). But you can download as many results as you want, as often as you want, during the editing process. Your image credits are reduced by the number of images you upload into the tool, not by how many downloads you do. Then at certain time intervals I haven't figured out, you are allotted more image credits.
Once you download your first result, you'll realize its only 512 x 512. But somewhere in the download process you get a prompt that tells you if you enroll as a beta tester by completing their brief survey, you can instead download "high res" 2048 x 2048 images and be allotted more free credits. So I did that and the survey was just questions about what you liked about the platform and how much you might be willing to pay for it in the future and etc. A day later I got an email saying my enrollment had been processed or something to that effect, and I now had 20 free image credits to start with plus 2048 x 2048 downloads.
You'll have to step through it yourself to get a handle on the exact details but the point is 1) it's free while still in beta now and 2) - don't put your heart & soul into your first experiment as it will only be a 512 x 512 result when downloaded. Instead, just do something to test it, do the survey, then wait the day until you can download your results at 2048 x 2048 before creating something you'd really want to use later.
I was blown away by how easy this makes extracting something from its background, and the shadowing tool was really great too, I personally just don't have an eye for what looks realistic in that regards. If you make your own mock-ups, I highly recommend giving this a try. I'm keeping it in my arsenal of tools for images with difficult backgrounds.
That's just saying you can use Depix as a person or business. Making mock-ups / product shots is a use they promote heavily.
And this from the FAQ:
https://depix.ai/use-cases
https://depix.ai/use-cases/ecommerce
Plus, Depix is just an editer. You upload your own images to, well, edit. I don't think they could legally restrict your use of your own images even if they wanted to.
