AI Product Photography 2026: Flair AI & Pebblely Tested
Discover how AI product photography works in 2026 — real tests of Flair AI and Pebblely on actual SKUs, with costs, quality limits, and when studios still win.
Chapter 1: The 2026 Product Photography Shakeup: Why Studios Became Optional Three years ago, if you sold a physical product online, you had exactly two options for images: shoot it yourself with a phone and a windowsill, or pay a studio somewhere between $75 and $400 per SKU. There was no third option that produced sellable results. Generative image models existed, but they hallucinated your product into something that wasn't your product — a slightly different label, a handle that bent the wrong way, a logo rendered as alien glyphs. For a catalog, that's worthless. Customers notice, and chargebacks follow....