What is Flat Lay Magic?
Flat Lay Magic is a specialized feature designed to center or align flat lay photographs while replacing the backgrounds with a uniform one. Utilizing AI-powered content-aware scaling and intelligent alignment, this tool streamlines the process of positioning objects - such as eCommerce products - in multiple flat lay images to fit various aspect ratios all at once.
When to Use Headshot Fix?
Example 1: Gift box goodie photos
Example 2: Bulk beverage bottle photos for retail website
Example 3: Toys for eCommerce website.
Suitable for:
Scaling e-commerce product photos
Aspect ratio conversions, such as portrait to square
Shopify stores with standard dimensions
Social media campaigns requiring consistent image alignment
Catalogs and brochures with varied image dimensions
Print advertisements that need high-resolution, centered images
How does it work?
How to Configure it?
Step-by-Step Guide for Flat Lay Magic Crops
Before diving into the nitty-gritty of Flat Lay Magic Crop, do yourself a favor and check out our Getting Started Guide. Trust us, it'll make the journey ahead a smooth ride!
Create Flat Lay Magic Crop Automation: Click on the "Flat Lay Magic" automation option, designed precisely to crop flat lay images, like shirts, pants, toys, furniture, glasses, wine bottles, cars, auto parts etc.
Choose Background Settings: Choose a "Background Settings":
Transparent: to make background transparent.
Solid color: to replace with a color.
Background image: replace background with an image such as a lifestyle background
Click the "Next" button.
Choose the Margin Settings: Choose the margin around the object. Crop.photo will use the settings to place the object smartly by using these as the maximum margins around it unless it would cause the object to be cut out/
Hit the "Next" button, when you are done.Choose Output Size: Select your preferred custom output sizes. You can add multiple output sizes for convenience. Aspect ratios such as 2:3 or 16:9 can be added by first converting them to pixel dimensions. For example if you enter 1000px by 1500px that would map to a 2:3 aspect ratio.
Review Settings & Upload: Click "Next" to proceed and start uploading your images.
Start Crop: Allow the system to complete the crops. This may take a minute or two depending on the number of files.
Note: The initial startup time for our AI models is typically 30s-1min independent of number of images. So 1 or 10 images may take similar time.
Download Your Crops: Once cropping is done, click "Download all" to obtain all your headshot extracts.
Tips and Tricks 🌟
Output image has more margin around the object
If your output image has more margin than desired, create a new project and adjust the "Margin Settings" to suit your need. Experiment with the automation on a few images to find the ideal settings.
Duplicate media & configuration
If you need to repeat the same crop again and again, from the Home page please click on the "Duplicate" option to reuse the configuration.
Often you want to uncheck duplicate media and just duplicate the configuration:
This allows you to add new files and do a quick batch crop with already tuned settings.
Still Facing Issues?
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