About The Client
The client is a high-growth fashion-tech company that provides AI-driven virtual try-on infrastructure to eCommerce brands. Their platform takes a single product image—typically a flat-lay or packshot—and generates a photorealistic on-model visual without requiring a physical shoot.
By enabling brands to scale product imagery from a single input, the company helps clients eliminate conventional shoot costs, reduce time-to-market, and support catalog volumes that traditional photography pipelines cannot match. The platform serves brands across multiple apparel and accessory categories, including outerwear, footwear, and jewelry.
Project Requirements
The client required a dedicated post-production partner to refine AI-generated on-model images before the visuals were delivered to end clients. The engagement spanned multiple apparel and accessory categories, with category-specific correction standards applied to each image.
Every output had to reflect the actual product accurately while maintaining accessories, natural fit, model presentation, and fabric texture. The goal was to eliminate AI-generated errors and deliver catalog-ready visuals comparable to professional fashion photography.
Specific requirements included:
Key Challenges
Although AI handled the initial image generation, the outputs consistently fell short of the product-level accuracy and visual consistency required for commercial use. Three main challenges were the following:
The AI-generated visuals captured the broad silhouette of each garment but consistently failed to represent fine product details.
Missing buttons, inaccurate necklines, shifted fabric patterns, faded logos, and incorrect construction features appeared across nearly every batch. Each of these required manual identification and correction before the image could be considered catalog-ready.
Skin rendering, clothing edge blending, and anatomical proportions could look artificial if the edits were visible. Every correction had to be precise enough to fix the issue without introducing new inconsistencies, especially along garment edges and around areas such as the hands and fingers.
The image sets featured models of different ethnicities, body types, and age groups. AI rendering introduced subtle but visible inconsistencies in skin tone, body proportions, and hair color between images. Maintaining a uniform catalog appearance required constant cross-referencing across the full image set to catch and correct variations that would otherwise make the catalog look unprofessional.
Retouching demand peaked at 300+ images per day, with each batch carrying its own SKU-specific instructions. Managing accuracy and output quality during high-volume periods—without increasing turnaround time or allowing errors to pass through QC—required a structured workflow that could handle volume fluctuations without losing consistency.
Our Solutions
To manage the full post-production scope, a dedicated team of five product photo editing experts and quality control specialists was assigned to the engagement.
Before any retouching began, each image batch was mapped against its corresponding SKU documentation. Editors reviewed earring assignments, footwear correction notes, garment fit instructions, and crop requirements before touching a single file. This step ensured every editing decision had a clear, confirmed reference point and reduced cross-SKU errors during high-volume periods.
Each AI-generated image was reviewed directly alongside the original product photograph. Every deviation — in color, texture, print, logo, or construction detail — was identified and corrected so the final image matched the source product precisely.
Clothing boundaries were refined manually to remove compositing artifacts left by the AI placement process. Editors ensured each garment appeared naturally worn, with edges that followed realistic fabric behavior and blended cleanly with the model's body.
AI outputs within the same batch frequently varied in lighting direction, shadow intensity, and color temperature. These variations were standardized across each image set to ensure visual consistency across the full catalog.
Jewelry and footwear required detailed manual treatment that the AI platform could not fully handle. Each item was added, adjusted, or refined in accordance with SKU-specific instructions and the client's master reference library.
The image sets spanned models of different ethnicities, body types, and age groups. AI rendering introduced inconsistencies between images that, left uncorrected, would have made the catalog appear visually uneven.
After QC approval, each image was prepared for final delivery according to the client's output specifications, ensuring files moved directly into the upload and catalog workflow without additional processing.
99%
First-pass approval rate across all retouched batches, with fewer than 1% of images requiring revision following final QC sign-off.
100%
Product identity accuracy across all delivered assets, with zero instances of unresolved color deviation, missing construction details, or logo inaccuracies reaching the client.
80%
Reduction in post-delivery revision requests compared to the client's prior retouching process, reflecting the effectiveness of the pre-production review and multi-stage QC framework.
40%
Reduction in per-image turnaround time within the first 60 days, achieved through SKU-level pre-production briefing and distributed quality checkpoints.
300+
Images processed per day during peak volume periods, without extending agreed turnaround windows or compromising output quality.
25,000+
Images were delivered across six product categories within the first six months, spanning outerwear, topwear, bottomwear, footwear, and accessories.
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