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Photoroom and the surprisingly profitable art of looking real
A clean background was supposed to make selling easier. A missing shadow revealed what Photoroom really had to solve: making an edited product look like something you could trust.
Clipping Path Work House and the business of making things disappear
A car loses its garage. A shirt loses its mannequin. Inside the image-editing service that turns everyday photographs into merchandise ready for the web.
Fast Clipping Path sells the work between the shoot and the sale
A ring needs its shine. A shirt needs its shape. Fast Clipping Path turns unfinished product photographs into store-ready images, with hand editing from $0.25 and a shelf of free browser tools.
Pix Clipping Path and the art of making things disappear
A mannequin vanishes. A necklace keeps its sparkle. Inside the photo-editing business that turns ordinary product shots into the clean, consistent images online shops need.
imgix
imgix is a San Francisco-based visual media platform that optimizes, transforms, and delivers images and video in real time through a simple URL-based API. Founded in 2011 by former YouTube web developer Chris Zacharias, imgix lets developers resize, crop, compress, convert formats, and now apply AI edits such as background removal and generative fill simply by appending parameters to an image URL, offloading image infrastructure to a globally distributed CDN. The company serves tens of thousands of customers, including Unsplash, Kickstarter, Eventbrite, and Porsche, and delivers on the order of billions of image requests a day.