there's a listing on Etsy that's doing
over half a million dollars in sales a
year in fact Marielle actually made a
purchase from this listing and you can
see me right here standing next to what
they sent us I'm going to show you this
listing show you everything they offer
and then I want to show you how I used
shutterstock's new AI tool to basically
compete directly with this listing all
of the options all of the customizations
they allow I'm able to create with a
simple text prompt from Shutterstock
that means we can type in what we want
and it'll use AI to create a high
quality image that we can use in our
listing by the way it supports Over 20
Languages I think that's pretty cool
shutterstop really is becoming a
One-Stop shop for all of our needs as
print-on-demand sellers they have stock
photos I'm sure everybody knows that but
now they've got this complementary AI
tool and they have an editing tool that
helps us customize our designs if we
need to use it
by the way their AI
when you create images with it it'll
actually pay artists if somebody
licenses an image that you were
responsible for the Inception of so you
can actually monetize your AI images
through Shutterstock anyways enough of
me talking I want to go about showing
you how I would compete with this Etsy
listing with the help of shutterstock's
new AI let's get to it
so this is the Etsy listing that
Marielle already made a purchase from
and it got me thinking like wow this is
actually a pretty good idea and as much
as people talk about selling digital
products online it's probably easier
said than done right in this case though
we know that they're actually making
sales I jumped on over to Insight
Factory pulled up this listing check it
out it's done 92 sales in the last seven
days got 7 000 views in the last seven
days which is crazy that's a thousand
views a day 310 new favorites in the
last seven days and in the last 276 days
it has done
5408 sales so this listings absolutely
killing it and it's not that hard I mean
from the outside looking in you know
what I mean maybe it looks like oh it's
too much work I don't know how I'm going
to compete but I'm going to show you
just like I said how we're going to use
Shutterstock and we can come up with the
base images that you see here that they
are then going in doing minor tweaks
minor customizations and adding people's
pets to we're going to jump over and
start using the AI tool in just a second
but I just wanted to show you that from
a recent press release they've partnered
with open AI meta and LG AI research to
help build this tool that's probably why
it's so good I've been experimenting
with it before I hit record I'm going to
show you some of the outputs but I just
wanted to share that with you so when
you come over to Shutterstock on the
left hand side click generate by the way
I'll drop a link to Shutterstock in the
description but you could by the way you
can just use a free account and do what
I'm going to show you okay
so go ahead and click into the AI
generator well what are we going to tell
it to create let's go back to the Etsy
listing what do you see here I mean I
see a lot of like olden times looks like
1700s era right kings queens Knights uh
let's do something like a 1700s era
Queen
posing for a photo I guess it would just
be a portrait so let's do portrait I
don't know if it makes a difference
posing for a portrait in her gown and
tiara
comma photo Style
and by the way guys when it generates
the output you can actually go up here
where it says like all styles photo art
digital 3D or no Styles and you can
alter
how it's going to Output the result
uh so this is close to what we want but
I don't think it's zoomed out enough you
don't want the head cut off
photo style I'm going to say comma
zoomed out and let's hit generate one
more time and see if it gives us
essentially what we're after because you
can see here obviously like there's a
little bit of space vertically above
um in a lot of these so let's see what
it does
all right and I think for the most part
we'll be able to make this work this one
specifically I think should be
relatively easy to work with so I'm
going to go ahead and hit copy image and
bring this over here to photoshop
and paste it all right
now this is just the queen let me show
you I was working with some other ones I
did an astronaut prompt and a couple of
them I think we're able to work with I
think this one might be one of the best
options uh this one right here a guy on
a bike and that's again based on some of
the ones some of the options I saw here
in this
and one last one you know the gangster
and by the way I use the black and white
preset it's not a preset I guess it's
just part of the prompt but under photo
so when shutterstock's AI is um taking
the text prompt you know I mean we
literally just type in text
not only does it create from nothing
what we asked it to create but it does
it in the style that we ask it to do it
that's really powerful uh and you can
play around with it as much as you want
so over here just to show you how we go
about finishing this like in Photoshop
you can do the lasso tool if you want
that just kind of lets you freehand
all right you can select and cut and
then you'd probably want to do something
like grab the background
and move that you know behind where we
just cut from uh realistically you know
we're gonna have
like an animal you know and you don't
have to do an animal you don't have to
do an exact copy of what you see
somebody else doing over there on Etsy
but you know if you want to do something
similar obviously with the animal heads
that's a nice way to Market it people
love their pets Marielle certainly loves
our pets and you can just put you know
Pablo's face on it just like that you
know similarly here we have the um the
mobster the gangster I don't even know
if this guy's gangster or not but
something along those lines you can come
in here and you can even use like the
magnetic lasso tool which will basically
just kind of trace the outline for you
and make it really quick really easy to
do a select and cut if you want to and
then um you know whatever dog you want
to put there this is nilly
parents Chihuahua we have so many
chihuahuas
um and you can obviously adjust the
graphics as necessary I think it looks
better when they're cartoonized by the
way but you know obviously and again you
don't have to do pets but even in like
my YouTube thumbnails I'll even like
cartoonize myself just a little bit
um
transform maybe flip that horizontally
how about that if we wanted to like kind
of size the ear down as well we could do
that
um no problem to show the Fedora but
completely up to you obviously we have
license to do what we want with these uh
we've got the
the Motorcycle Dude the badass right
here let's select that we don't even
really need to do a removal there I mean
we could just pop Pablo's head right on
top of him that's simple enough right uh
and you guys get the gist of where we're
going with this we got the astronauts
here
um
it doesn't you know I mean it doesn't
have to be perfect like
you can make it as perfect as you want
it to but also I think it's kind of
funny to not make it uh as exact you
know what I mean
as somebody who's been like the go-to
Photoshop Meme Maker for their friend
group for the last I don't know two
decades probably so you saw how we did
all that so easily with shutterstock's
AI you might be wondering like how do we
get the uh Shutterstock AI Watermark off
of it well when you have an image that
you are ready to use that you like
enough that you say hey this is perfect
this is going to be one of the options
that we're going to offer in our Etsy
listing by the way you can offer it as a
digital file or wall art and I recommend
why not give your customers both options
also you can charge the least amount for
the digital file that way when people
see it in search results they see the
14.99 they don't see the you know 175
dollar option
um
you know what I mean and get scared away
so it definitely helps to do that little
trick if you will
Etsy always displays the lowest price in
search results so in um Shutterstock
here when you have an image that you
like you can click download
and this should bring out a prompt from
the sidebar so let me move myself here
so I'm not blocking and you can see here
you you have the choice of like what
license type you want standard or
enhanced and you can opt to do
um they have different approaches
basically you can opt into like a
monthly plan where you get let you get
cheaper credits you get more for Less my
girlfriend marielle's actually been a
Shutterstock customer for a long time
she uses it for print on demand but also
for FBA business and for her dog company
in the marketing efforts so I know she
would vouch for it as well when it comes
to licenses you should be fine with the
standard license it's a royalty-free
license so you don't have to pay
Shutterstock every time you make a sale
it limits you to 500 000 copies but if
you're making 500 000 sales hey that's
that's amazing that's a good problem to
have and you can go back and upgrade
your license with Shutterstock and the
standard license images it says it'll
cost between 22 cents and 14.50 but if
you come on over here and I'm blocking
again uh you can see that and there's
different ways to go about it whether
you want to pay one time or pay monthly
for credits but you can see here if you
want to pay for 25 or no let's just say
10 credits a month all right that's 29 a
month it's two dollars and 90 cents per
image the last thing I wanted to show
you before I jump off is that if you
just come to the Shutterstock AI
generator page and scroll down you can
see a bunch of already made AI generated
images for instance check this one out I
thought this one was really cool uh this
looks like a real guy but this is just
an AI generated man The Prompt was high
detail medium portrait photo and
Amazonian tribal man looking at the
camera set in a well-lit studio at
Golden hour shot using a supreme prime
lens I mean that's crazy because it
basically factored in all of those
things and got them all perfect I would
say and that guy looks as real as
anybody else I've ever seen a photo of
so check that out there's a bunch of
images you can browse already available
on the Shutterstock AI page again I'll
link to everything in the description I
hope you guys found this video useful
and inspiring it's one thing to say hey
look there's an Etsy seller making all
this money go do the same I'm not like
asking you to figure it out yourself I'm
saying hey like here's a way you can
actually go about doing it that in
theory should work I mean you can
replicate this quality relatively easily
using shutterstock's AI generator
there's a lot you can do with AI image
generators of course this is just how I
chose to spin the video because I
thought it was funny that we actually
had sitting on the wall downstairs uh
one of the wall Arts from here that I
can use Shutterstock to generate my own
version of like you see behind me today
and I hope you guys will check it out
again you can use it for free I'll drop
a link in the description on your way
out please hit that like And subscribe
button and I'll see you guys at the next
video
thank you
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