Have you noticed that consumers’ demand for emotional value has soared, and the pet service industry has spawned more and more new “anthropomorphic” business formats?
Pet photography and portraiture have become emerging industries in the pet economy, attracting more and more attention from photographers and pet owners.
Some photographers and photography agencies have opened up this business independently, dressing pets in clothes and taking photos of the cute moments of "fur kids" as a way to record the growth of pets. Even if they are charged hundreds to thousands of yuan, owners are happy to pay for it.
However, it is more troublesome to arrange offline photo shooting, as it requires communicating the time, the time and money spent on round-trip transportation, whether the pet will cooperate during the photo shooting, etc.
With the advent of the AI era, we areLittle Red BookI have seen more and more AI-customized pet image-related services on the Internet.By providing pet owners with personalized pet image customization services, to meet their special emotional needs for pets.
Because Xiaohongshu's user group is mainly young women, they love and are interested in videos on fashion, beauty, pets and other topics, so AI-customized pet images cater to this.
Case reference
Among them, this blogger is very smart and pioneered a different AIPet PhotosTrack,The content of the notes mainly focuses on the cute pet guardian series.
Using a huge cute pet image as the cover, users are immediately attracted.Contrast + combination + deification,The ladies can't stop because pets are not only their companions, but also their emotional sustenance.
Due to the popularity of the Cat Guardian series, some accounts imitating the blogger have appeared on Xiaohongshu. From my observation, users are very interested in this type of contrast pictures, and some bloggers' notes have a very high reading, like and collection rate.
About Fees
The blogger has introduced a tiered pricing system, with prices ranging from several hundred yuan. Orders have been scheduled until June, so you can imagine how large the business volume is!There are 4 groups on Xiaohongshu with a total of 2,000 people. The number of people diverted to private domains will not be small, and the cumulative income is estimated to be more than 100,000+.
Production Process
Users provide personal portraits and pet photos, which are then created using AI tools, PS preprocessing, and SD dissolving. The specific practical method is divided into the following steps:
1. Generate a creative template base map
First use Midjourney to generate a template image base of an artistic photo of people and pets, and enter the pet's breed in the pet keyword.
2. Pre-synthesis in PS
Paste the upper body of the character and the pet into the base image for pre-synthesis, and simply process the light and shadow and skin color to prepare for the subsequent SD dissolving.
3.SD character dissolving
Select a real large model in SD, such as Mai Ju's portrait, reverse the keywords and adjust the keywords, Wensheng picture, extract line drawings, process lines, and use CN to control the selection of line drawings and blocks.
4. Cat's dissolving picture
Select the pre-synthesized cat image and drag it to the raw image for dissolving
5. Overall dissolution and improved image quality
Mask the characters and cats in PS, add appropriate light and shadow, and improve the image quality by choosing to zoom in twice in TD to achieve image quality above 4K.
The above steps refer to the production method of Yifan AI blogger on Xiaohongshu. The most important part of this pet customized photo game is the post-processing PS photo editing, which is why these two bloggers lamented the long time of photo editing.
If you are engaged in post-production photo editing and portrait design, it is highly recommended that you try this kind of AI pet customized portrait project. There are many types of pets.In addition to being the patron saint of cats, you can also be the patron saint of dogs.The market is huge and there is no way to exhaust all of it. So focus on one niche area and master it thoroughly.
You should know that there are pet groups in every region, and every dog and cat owner will communicate with each other when they meet.Build a good reputation and get referrals from customers, and you’ll never have to worry about orders.
How to expand profits?
In addition to directing traffic to private domain transactions like this blogger, you can alsoLaunched AI pet photo art photo peripheral customization service, such as paintings, mugs, T-shirts, pillows and so on.
You can also live broadcast the drawing process, attract more people to come in, increase the number of followers and popularity of the account. If you are too busy,You can recruit apprentices and assign them orders, killing several birds with one stone.
Works are distributed to different platforms simultaneously, such as Video Account and Douyin, can expand popularity and expand traffic sources.
Conclusion
A seemingly ordinary photo actually means a lot to pet owners. When pets become an inseparable family of humans, huge consumption potential will follow. It is expected that more monetization areas and opportunities will be subdivided in the future.
Okay, that’s all for today. If you’re interested, hurry up and try it out!