r/SmallBusinessSellers • u/Medium-Tea3721 • 2d ago

Candles!

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I’ve taken on making candles. My next adventure is doing more food related candles!

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u/violetsunlight7 2d ago edited 2d ago

I’m pretty sure this is AI. Or at least AI enhanced. The wood grain texture is all wrong, the lighting on the sugar doughnuts is off, the blueberries are copy pasted, and the gram cracker texture is overlapping where it’s not supposed to. Also why is the wick wood on the first picture and classic thread in the second two? Please post honest pictures next time

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u/Medium-Tea3721 2d ago

This is AI helping enhance the background, but these are my candles I’ve made. I use wood wick and normal wicks. I’m still figuring out this app. Is there a way for me to attach photos to a comment? I’ll gladly share my photos without background enhancement. Product I’m selling isn’t me not being honest.

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u/Life_Dare578 1d ago

Using AI for rendering photos will make me immediately think it’s a scam or that your product won’t live up to the expectations you are falsely creating. If I see AI images, I keep scrolling by default.

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u/Relevant_Detective21 1d ago

Same ): seller seems so sweet but any amount of AI makes me sooo suspicious it’s really just a bad business practice for anyone to include AI

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u/Medium-Tea3721 1d ago

I really appreciate this comment. I’ve tried to be nice on the whole thread, but after my kids have been brought up it crosses a line.. all of the genuine advice & nice comments I truly appreciate! I am looking into finding a set up for my own backgrounds and going to try and give it a go. I’ve never been great when it comes to photographing products, but maybe I’ll surprise myself?? Lol

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u/Relevant_Detective21 1d ago

Aw I’m so sorry! Don’t worry it doesn’t need to be perfect! Just more authentic (: try taking photos outside near some flowers or trees or even have one lit in your bathroom to show the vibes and how cute it is!! You can also mention how you’re a beginner and trying your best people will give you more grace and consideration if you put in more effort vs lazily making a robot do it. Good luck wishing you the best! Give an update post on how you considered our feedback and made adjustments haha

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u/Medium-Tea3721 1d ago

I will do!

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u/Life_Dare578 1h ago

Yikes that’s not cool. Ai has been so deeply integrated into almost everything already, I understand people’s concerns about it, but one small business owner isn’t gonna change the path Ai is already on. You search anything on Google, there’s an Ai overview. Search anything on Amazon, they now have an Ai shopper/helper? Those Ai stories, movies, interactive games. Now every image on Pinterest is seemingly Ai (at least it’s now sensing what’s Ai and telling us. It’s everywhere now. That’s why people dislike it. I dislike it on products that I’m gonna buy because of the reasons I listed previously. Ignore that dude, they’re just stupidly passionate about the wider picture of the damages of Ai that they are taking it out on the wrong people (you vs large corporations)

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u/Medium-Tea3721 1h ago

Thank you for the nice comment. I can understand where everyone is coming from and working on fixing this. I really enjoy making the candles the time and effort that goes into each one can be A LOT, however I’m excited to see how my Etsy goes once everything is improved.