AI Product Photography
Turn a worn, hung or flat-laid garment into a true invisible-mannequin product shot that holds its own three-dimensional shape. About twenty seconds, not a day.
A ghost mannequin shot shows a garment holding its full worn shape with nothing visible inside it. You can see into the neck, and often the cuffs and hem. That visible interior is the entire point: it is what tells a shopper the garment has real volume rather than being pressed flat.
Traditionally it took two things at once. A shoot, with the garment on a mannequin or form and the interiors captured separately, then a retoucher combining the plates so the shape survived with the mannequin gone. The retouching half can now be generated from an ordinary photograph.
The interesting problem is not removing the person, which is comparatively easy. It is that a garment photographed on a body is full of information about how it hangs, and a garment photographed flat has almost none.
They are good at different jobs, and most catalogues need both. This is the honest split.
| AI ghost mannequin | Manual retouching | Mannequin shoot | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnaround | About 20 seconds | Typically 24 hours | Days, plus a shoot |
| Input needed | Any garment photo you already have | Shot plates, ideally with interiors | The physical sample, on site |
| Exactness | Plausible reconstruction | Pixel-exact to the garment | Photographic |
| Complex construction | Review it | Handled | Handled |
| Revisions | Regenerate, seconds | Brief and round trip | Re-shoot |
| Garment never shot properly | Works from what exists | Nothing to combine | Needs the sample back |
| Best for | Volume and the long tail | Hero and campaign images | Reference and archive |
Anyone can erase a background. Keeping a garment three-dimensional with the body gone is the actual problem.
Back views get their own treatment because they have almost no landmarks: no placket, no chest graphic. The centre-back seam, yoke and label carry the read, and the model is told explicitly not to invent a front.
Tops, dresses, knitwear, outerwear, ponchos and wraps, trousers and skirts. A collar, a waistband and an open jacket front each open a different interior, so they are not treated as one generic shape.
Three slots for close-ups of the neckline, the inner brand tag, and the lining. Skip them and the interior is filled plausibly. Supply them when it has to be exact, like a contrast lining on an open jacket.
A vision pass scans the garment for construction detail as soon as you upload, and feeds what it finds into the conversion. It runs in the background while you set the rest of the options.
2K comes out of the model at full size rather than being upscaled from a smaller render. Export to 4K on the finished plate, download as JPG, PNG or WebP, or take a true transparent PNG with the alpha channel intact.
Pick the backdrop and whether a soft contact shadow sits under the garment. A flat shadow-free cut-out and a grounded product shot are different deliverables, and marketplaces differ on which they want.
Four steps, and only the first needs anything you do not already have.
Drop in a photo of the garment worn, on a hanger, laid flat, or as a packshot. A construction scan starts immediately in the background while you set the rest.
Pick the source type, the garment family, and front or back. These are not cosmetic: removing a body, un-flattening a flat lay and de-hangering are different problems with different failure modes.
Optionally supply close-ups of the neck, inner label or lining. Skip this for most garments; use it when the interior has to be exact rather than plausible.
About twenty seconds at 2K. Check the shoulder line, the neck interior and the seams against your source, then download in your format, with an optional disclosure label if a channel asks for one.
A ghost mannequin, or invisible mannequin, shot shows a garment holding its full worn shape with no model and no mannequin visible inside it. You can see into the neck, and often the cuffs and hem, which is what tells a shopper the garment has real three-dimensional volume. The AI version generates that from an ordinary photograph of the garment, rather than requiring a mannequin shoot plus a retouching pass to combine the plates.
Any of four: the garment worn by a person, on a hanger, laid flat, or a plain packshot. You tell the tool which one it is, because removing a body, un-flattening a flat lay and de-hangering are different problems. A worn shot is the easiest input because drape and gravity are already visible; a flat lay is the hardest for the same reason.
Yes, and back is worth requesting explicitly. A back view has far fewer landmarks than a front, with no placket or chest graphic to anchor to, so the centre-back seam, yoke and label carry the whole read. Telling the tool it is a back shot keeps those in place and stops it inventing a front.
Seven families: tops, dresses, knitwear, outerwear, ponchos and wraps, trousers, and skirts. Each one opens a different interior, so a collar, a waistband and an open jacket front are handled differently rather than being treated as one generic shape.
Yes. Three optional reference slots take a close-up of the neck or collar, the inner brand label, and the lining. Without them the model fills the interior plausibly, which is fine for most garments. Supply them when the interior has to be exact, such as a contrast lining on an open jacket or a specific brand tag.
1K and 2K come out of the model natively at full size, so detail is real rather than interpolated from a smaller render, and there is a 4K export step for the finished plate. Download as JPG, PNG or WebP, or take a true transparent PNG cut-out with the alpha channel intact.
For standard garments at volume, it is the same job in seconds instead of a day. For hero images, unusual construction such as heavy pleating or sheer layers, colour-critical work, or interiors that must be literally correct, a retoucher who can see the actual garment is still more exact. Most catalogues split it: generate the long tail, send the exceptions to manual. We offer both.
Ghost mannequin conversion is available on Pro and above. Starter covers on-model generation at standard resolution.
Ghost mannequin conversion is included on Pro and above in Jinko Generator. Upload something awkward and see what comes back.