AI product imagery service
「Charging what the photoshoot cost」
You collect what the client used to pay a studio and a model. The cost you removed is the ceiling on what you can charge.
Turn one product photo into scene and model shots, and sell that. What AI removes here is the photo shoot, so the buyer compares you against a studio quote rather than another freelancer.
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- To first revenue
- Building three portfolio pieces takes days. Time to a first order is not something we estimate.
- Startup cost
- ₩30,000~150,000
- Coding
- not needed
- Sales
- some
- Automation
- 3/5
We have zero cases with a verified earnings figure, so we do not invent a revenue range. What follows instead is arithmetic on published prices and official fee rates.
Where the money goes
One sale, start to finish — DELUXE
This is also the figure you report as revenue — not the amount that reaches your account.
- Service fee (16.4% / 9.4% / 4.4% 누진 구간)−₩73,800
- Payment network fee (3.3%)−₩14,850
- VAT on those fees (위 두 항목의 10%)−₩8,865
Output VAT ₩40,909 − input VAT on fees ₩8,865−₩32,044
⚠️ Tool costs, your own labour and income tax have not been taken out yet. Individual (non-business) accounts handle VAT differently and cannot issue tax invoices at all.
The ceiling you cannot pass in a month
Published delivery days divided into the working month. Not what you can earn — the line you cannot cross alone.
| Tier | List price | Days | Max/mo | Revenue ceiling | Operating profit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STANDARD | ₩150,000 | 3d | 6 | ₩900,000 | ₩640,884₩32,044/day |
| DELUXE | ₩450,000 | 5d | 4 | ₩1,800,000 | ₩1,281,764₩64,088/day |
| PREMIUM | ₩1,350,000 | 10d | 2 | ₩2,700,000 | ₩2,013,646₩100,682/day |
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What these numbers are, and are not
- Nobody earned this. Not one listed case has a verified revenue figure.
- List prices and delivery days come off the seller's page; fee rates come from the platform's own documentation.
- “Max/mo” is division — 20 working days divided by the published delivery time. It does not mean orders arrive that steadily. In practice they do not.
- Operating profit here is before tool costs, your own labour and income tax. Rework and refunds are not in it either.
Who you sell to
- Cosmetics sellers
- Marketplace sellers
- Small brands
How the money comes in
- Per-image fee
- Fixed packages
Steps
- Narrow to one product category — serum, apparel or food, pick one
- Generate scene shots from your own phone photo and count the attempts until one is usable
- Multiply that count by tool costs to get a per-image cost
- Write down ten comparable price lists and compare against your cost
Tools used
Leonardo.Ai · Canva · Claude
Linked tools are ones whose pricing we checked and listed.
Risks
- Output quality separates on existing design skill, not on whether AI was used
- Some product shapes render badly — packaging, texture, lettering
- Cosmetics imagery falls under advertising rules; efficacy wording is a liability
Verified cases using this model
BMostly confirmedSelling the photo shoot away — AI product imagery for cosmetics listings
Studio Bob — AI model imagery replacing photo shoots for cosmetics pages · KR · Revenue not disclosed
Compare with
- Level 1AI content freelancing「Hours, sold in slices」
- Level 2AI content operations「Same date every month」
- Level 2Marketplace seller support「Riding on someone else's revenue」
Do this today
- Photograph one product with your phone
- Generate scene shots and count the attempts until one is usable
- Multiply that count by your tool costs and write the per-image cost down