British brands, Etsy and Depop sellers, eBay shops and Shopify stores use CatalogX to turn flat lays into on-model photography — the same afternoon the samples land, in the colours you actually stock, for a fraction of a London studio hire.
Ask any small British label what stops them listing and the answer is rarely the camera. It is that the studio has a Tuesday in three weeks, the model's agency wants a day rate plus usage, the stylist is a separate booking, and the collection you wanted live for the autumn transition is now competing with everyone else's Black Friday stock.
The cost of that delay is invisible because it never appears on an invoice. A rail sitting unlisted for three weeks is three weeks of stock that cannot sell, in a market where the window between a trend and a discount is short. And the moment a frame is rejected or a colourway arrives late, the whole booking has to happen again.
Generating the shot removes the diary from the equation entirely. Upload the flat lay, pick the model and the backdrop, and the image is ready in about thirty seconds. Change your mind and it costs a credit, not a rebooking.
A flat lay, a hanger shot or a mannequin photo taken on a phone. Add the back view, a matching bottom or extra reference shots where they matter.
Choose a model and backdrop from the catalogue, or on Pro and above upload and save your own so every drop this season looks like the same shoot.
One master image resizes and pads to each destination's spec — eBay, Etsy, Amazon, Shopify, Depop, Poshmark, TikTok Shop and Instagram — with AI-provenance metadata written into the file.
UK credit and debit cards work, and the charge is made in US dollars — your issuer does the conversion. That is also why every price on this page is in USD: one price list that cannot drift out of date against an exchange rate, rather than a GBP column nobody updates.
Each of those platforms wants a different canvas, and cropping a portrait shot to a square by hand is where listing time actually goes. Marketplace export takes one approved image and produces the right size, padding and background fill for each one, at no credit cost.
Drape is where most virtual try-on tools fail: the pallu is redrawn in the wrong direction, the lehenga flare flattens into a bodycon skirt, the dupatta merges into the outfit. CatalogX handles these as first-class cases and measures hem length rather than guessing it. If this is your stock rather than a category in it, the dedicated page for UK ethnic wear sellers goes into the detail.
A range that runs to a size 18 photographed only on a sample-size model is a returns problem waiting to happen. The model catalogue covers a range of body types, and from Pro up you can upload and save your own model and use that same person across the entire range.
Generic AI invents fabric. For a UK seller listing against a returns policy that assumes accuracy, that is not cosmetic — it is a refund. CatalogX is built to preserve product pixels: a graphic keeps its printed scale and position, an all-over pattern holds its repeat through folds, and a dyed colour does not drift toward whatever the model expected.
Every exported image carries the IPTC digital source type for algorithmically generated
media, and images showing a photorealistic AI-generated person additionally carry Amazon's
contains-synthetic-performer keyword, required by its policy worldwide. It
lives in the file rather than in a setting somewhere, so it travels with the image.
| 20-piece drop | Booked studio day | CatalogX |
|---|---|---|
| Lead time | Weeks, set by the studio and agency diary | Same day the samples arrive |
| Model | Day rate plus usage, negotiated per shoot | Chosen from the catalogue, or your own saved model |
| Re-shooting one rejected frame | Rebook the session | Regenerate in about 30 seconds |
| Adding a colourway later | A new shoot | 1 credit |
| Per-channel crops | A retoucher, or your evening | Free export presets |
| Usage rights | Negotiated, often time-limited | You own every output, no watermark, no window |
The row that changes how you work is the third one. A booked shoot prices change out of reach: once the set is struck, "can we just redo that one" is a new day's hire. When a reshoot costs a credit, your listings stop being something you shot once and become something you keep current.
Yes. UK credit and debit cards are accepted and the charge is made in US dollars, so your card issuer handles the conversion. Prices on this page are shown in USD for that reason — there is no separate GBP price list to go stale.
The rule on every major marketplace is that the image must accurately represent the item the buyer receives. None of them require that a photograph was taken with a camera. Because CatalogX preserves your actual garment — its colour, its print, its cut — the resulting image is a more faithful representation of what ships than a stock template mockup is.
Yes. Every exported image carries the IPTC digital source type for algorithmically generated media, and images showing a photorealistic AI-generated person additionally carry Amazon's contains-synthetic-performer keyword, which its policy requires worldwide. It is written into the file itself, so it travels with the image wherever you upload it.
Yes, and that is a deliberate strength rather than an afterthought. Saree pleating, dupatta fall, lehenga volume and kurta hem length are handled as first-class cases, and hem length is measured and anchored in inches rather than guessed. There is a dedicated page for South Asian ethnic wear sellers in the UK with the detail.
HD on every plan and 2K from the free plan up, which clears the size requirements that matter — Amazon asks for 1600 pixels or larger on the longest side for apparel. 4K is available from the Business plan for hero frames and print. Marketplace export then resizes and pads one master image to each destination's own spec.
Yes. The model catalogue spans a range of body types rather than one sample size, so a size-18 listing can be shown on a model who plausibly wears it. From the Pro plan up you can also upload and save your own model and reuse that same person across the whole range.
Each image takes roughly 30 seconds, and up to 20 garments go through in a single batch run against one model. The constraint stops being the studio diary and becomes how quickly your samples arrive — which is the part of the calendar you actually control.
Yes, on every plan including the free one. No watermarks, no per-image licence and no usage window: you can use them on your own site, on marketplaces, in paid ads, on packaging and in print.
Five free credits, no card. The heavy knit, the all-over print, the piece that never looks right flat.