Photo editing

Photoroom fits resellers and shops listing many items a week, because it edits in batches and adds an AI scene with a shadow. Pixelcut is the pick if your phone is your studio, with background removal, upscaling and retouching in one app. remove.bg does one thing: it detects the subject and cuts away the background. Use it when you only need cut-outs to place on white yourself.

Photoroom and Pixelcut each handle simple edits at no cost. Adobe Firefly also has a free tier, mostly useful for trying its generative tools. remove.bg and Magnific have no free plan in our data. Free tiers often limit resolution or add a watermark, so check an export at full size before you edit a whole catalogue.

Photoshop includes Adobe Firefly features such as Generative Fill, so you can remove and replace backgrounds there. A dedicated app is faster when you process dozens of product shots in one go. Photoroom and Pixelcut edit in batches with templates sized for marketplaces. Many sellers keep Photoshop for hero images and use a phone app for daily listings.

Shoot in even light against a plain backdrop, so the edges of the product stay crisp. Photoroom adds a matching shadow when it drops the item into a new scene, which stops it looking pasted on. Keep the same angle and framing for every product in a collection. If a photo comes out soft, Magnific can enlarge and sharpen it before you publish.

Yes, but the picture still has to show the real item accurately, including colour, size and condition. Marketplaces and EU consumer law both expect listings not to mislead buyers. Adobe trains Firefly on licensed content, which matters if you use generated images commercially. Keep the background creative and the product itself untouched.