Furniture Connect and Traditional Photography, feature by feature.
| Furniture Connect | Photography | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed & Workflow | ||
| Time per lifestyle image | Under 1 minute | 1–3 weeks |
| Batch processing | Yes, across selected products and materials | One shoot at a time |
| Fabric/color variants | AI-generated instantly | Requires reshoot |
| Revisions & iterations | Regenerate in minutes, using credits | Per revision fee |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | Flat monthly | Per image / per day |
| Studio hire | Not needed | £500–£2,000/day |
| Photographer fees | Not needed | £300–£800/day |
| Styling & props | AI-generated | £200–£500/day |
| Quality & Output | ||
| Output resolution | Up to 4K | Varies |
| Consistent brand style | Yes, with saved prompt templates | Depends on photographer |
| Room style presets | Yes, coastal, Japandi, mid-century and more | A set built for each shoot |
| Product video | Yes, image to video | Separate production |
| Platform | ||
| Product information management | Yes, the Furniture Connect catalog | Not included |
| Digital asset library | Yes, a built-in DAM linked to each product | Not included |
| Background removal | Yes, one click | Manual retouching |
| Image upscaling | AI 4x upscale | Not included |
Your team already knows the photoshoot pipeline. Book a studio. Hire a photographer. Source props. Ship products. Shoot. Retouch. Wait. One collection can stall for weeks, and every day without lifestyle product images costs you sales.
When you launch new ranges often, your creative team has to choose which products get the photoshoot. The rest go live with a plain product cutout and zero context.
Upload a product cutout, describe the scene, and get a photorealistic lifestyle image in under a minute. Anyone on the team can do it, with no studio booking and no scheduling.
Need the same sofa in six rooms? Six prompts, not six shoot days. Need a fabric swap variant? Generate it instantly. Your creative team keeps full control of the output. See how it works for marketing teams and designers.
One traditional furniture photoshoot runs £1,000 to £5,000 per day. That covers studio hire, a photographer, styling and retouching, before you even ship the product.
Furniture Connect charges a flat monthly fee. Each plan includes a set number of credits, so you know the cost of every image before you generate it, with no per-shoot invoices. See pricing.
Furniture Connect covers the full range of furniture imagery: product pages, marketplace listings, social content, campaign hero shots, model-led scenes and video. Some brands still book a physical shoot for a flagship campaign, and the two sit side by side. Your creative team directs both, and the output multiplies.
“Honestly, it's completely revolutionized my processes. I've gained about a month on my brochure design.”
Michelle · Marketing Manager, Hartman
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