How to Create a Jewellery Catalog with AI — From SKU Photos to PDF Lookbook
The complete workflow — photograph every SKU once on any camera, run AI normalisation for consistent backgrounds and lighting, group by collection, apply a catalog theme, export as PDF lookbook or ZIP asset kit. Screenshots for each stage.
The catalog problem
A jewellery catalog is not a photo album — it's a coherent visual language across 20-200 SKUs. The problem is that raw shots taken over months (different photographers, different cameras, different backgrounds, different times of day) fight each other on the same catalog page. Traditional fix: re-shoot the whole collection. Cost: ₹80,000-₹300,000 per season.
The AI catalog pipeline (6 stages)
- Photograph every SKU once. Any camera. Any background. Consistency doesn't matter at the input stage. Get a decent-quality shot with the piece in focus and in-frame.
- Upload as a batch to AI Catalog Images. Facetra accepts 100+ images per batch queue.
- Pick a catalog style — White (Amazon / e-commerce), Luxury (bridal / editorial), Minimal (modern / everyday), Premium (heritage / high-jewellery), Festive (Diwali / seasonal), Lifestyle (Reels / Instagram). One choice normalises the whole batch.
- Pick style pipelines per piece — Diamond, Gold, Kundan, Jadau. This tells Facetra which colour + light curve to apply per SKU so a Kundan Rani Haar and a diamond solitaire in the same catalog both look correct.
- Group into collections — Bridal, Everyday, Occasion, Statement. Each collection gets its own PDF section with a moodboard cover.
- Export — PDF lookbook (client-shareable), ZIP asset kit (manufacturer / marketplace-ready), or both. Every SKU ships with hero image, per-piece design brief, BOM if configured, and multi-view sheets if enabled.
Timeline
A 100-SKU catalog that used to take 3-4 weeks (re-shoot + retouch + layout) now ships in one afternoon. Photography stays as photography (1-2 days for 100 SKUs on a phone). AI normalisation + export runs in the background (~40 seconds per SKU, so 100 SKUs = ~65 minutes queued).
Cost comparison
| Line item | Traditional | Facetra |
|---|---|---|
| Photography (100 SKUs) | ₹40,000-₹100,000 | Phone / DSLR you own |
| Retouching (100 SKUs) | ₹40,000-₹150,000 | ~₹2,400 @ 2 credits/SKU Ultra-HD |
| Layout (InDesign) | 2-3 days | 1 click PDF export |
| Marketplace variants | 30 min × 100 = 50 hours | ~₹1,200 via Custom Sizing |
| Total | ₹80,000-₹250,000 | ~₹3,600 |
Start: AI Jewelry Catalog Images · Photo Editing · Custom Sizing.