Sometimes it's so tricky to create a mockup for a product item offered by Zazzle - especially if no In Situ images are available like with some of the etched glassware as an example. I use different AI tools (which I have listed at https://sanfrancisco.zone/resources/) and the one I use most often is definitely Kittl (https://kittl.pxf.io/SanFrancisco *** this is an affiliate link - remove SanFrancisco if you wish).
But I also use Recraft at times - I'll post a couple mockup examples below. Mockups allow to drag an image on it and get a perfect product image. Well, maybe not perfect but pretty darn close to it. I'm not very good at writing prompts but like with everything else in life: "Übung macht den Meister" (practice makes the master) as the Germans would say.
If you like to give it a whirl go for it - Recraft has a free plan available which allows you 50 free credits. I invite you though to use the following link: https://www.recraft.ai/invite/zLuUM4kUZZ because than you and I both will earn 200 credits when you sign up. ***
*** Heads up: Free credits are only given if you sign up on a desktop. Credits unlock only when you make your first image. They do not expire and can only be used after your subscription credits (free or paid) are exhausted.
Here are a couple of examples I have created using Recraft’s platform and AI tools:
PS: I added the text "AI Simulation - image not of actual product." using Kittl - Recraft didn't do that.
@KeegansCreation Thank you. Sometimes I struggle a bit to tell the AI what I wanted exactly but as I said - I will get better at it. And sometimes I cheat too. ChatGPT offers "Glibatree Art Designer" (works only with version 4) and while I don't like the Dall-E AI output much (usually) it (Glibatree Art Designer) writes those awesome prompts which I than copy and enter at other AI platforms (just removing the Glibatree markers) and it brings me closer to what I wanted or needed. I wished I had the cash to buy everything I design on Zazzle so I can just take photos but that would turn me into a super broke hoarder, lol. And I live kinda tiny which spells disaster!!
@KeegansCreation I use Gimp instead of Photoshop. I never was able to sign up for Midjourney because Discord didn’t like me much and forced me to sign up four times 🤦🏻♀️ and still didn’t let me access that AI, sigh. I do use Paceit and ChatGPT but I might cancel my ChatGPT subscription because half the time it tells me that to many people are using it. How can that be when I only use it at night and I run on California time. 😳
@KeegansCreation PS: In the beginning I dabbled a bit in the wedding niche (lol, not really a niche on Zazzle but anyway…) and I created a video using AI and it looked all pretty awesome until I noticed that the bride had an extra arm growing out of her back. 😳 How is that for creepy? 😱 That was the end for me in the wedding niche, lol. I was harmed/damaged for life, rofl.
@Mariholly I hear you loud and clearly. As of today I’m definitely in the hole but I think it’s starting to get a bit better maybe? I have sold a Palestine button last night (to someone in the Netherlands - yeah!!) and an hour ago I sold two of my etched glasses. I’m giving my self a couple of years (I’m still in my first year right now), if I can’t make it fly by then I guess I have to chalk it up as an honest try but fail. Normal business expenses, sigh.
- @Jadendreamer13 Valid point most definitely, I usually do. I actually like to post both kinds - close-up’s and photos showing the product more in the “environment”.
Looks awesome, @MOM !
I am wondering if there are no copyright issues involved?
https://www.kittl.com/terms
(I am looking at point 7 here)
Zazzle has these weird copyright messages when you download a product image (for instance to put on your own website). If you upload a product image to Kittl, it will be available to everyone without limits is my understanding. I could be wrong here of course.
@Anne I can partially answer this now but only partially because I have the conversation with Kittl saved on my laptop and I’m right now on my iPhone because I can’t see squat during day time on my laptop - there is to much light in my tiny floating home. But anyhow, Col had asked the same and back then I had posted Kittl’s reply in the Zazzle forum (maybe it pops up if you search for it?). Also Kittl just had a life event which I had attended and they were answering a lot of questions - you can re-watch the life event at https://www.youtube.com/live/iPxyh-LrtZw?si=2y36ZHUsZ9Dt9JsK.
To your other point you have mentioned: this is up to you basically. I have my Kittl set to share nothing with nobody. I could change that but naturally I have no interest in changing those settings of course.
On a side note: I wanted to be lazy and upscale one of my own images posted on Zazzle and I couldn’t so Zazzle is trying to protect our designs a bit. Of course there are always ways around that for dedicated thieves but it will hamper some at least.
