Lydia Pemberton
Creative Director, Photography Agency · 11-50
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★★★★★
Onboarding a second wave of junior retouchers last spring, I genuinely wondered whether our tooling would hold up. It did. DeepMaker AI has been the backbone of our client image work for well over three years now, and the pay-as-you-go model was the thing that made scaling actually manageable. No bloated seat licences, no renegotiating a contract every time a new person joins the team. My retouchers each pull credits against a shared pool and the flexibility is, frankly, the reason we kept renewing rather than shopping around.
The background remover and object eraser are the two tools my team lives in. Fast, accurate on complex edges like hair and foliage, and consistent enough that our output quality stays level regardless of who's handling the brief. The image enhancer has saved more than one client deliverable that came in underexposed. The avatar creator and face swapper have opened up campaign concepts we'd never have pitched before on a small budget. Three years in, the toolset has genuinely grown alongside what we ask of it.
The one gripe I keep coming back to is the batch workflow. When we're processing a high volume of product shots for an e-commerce client, moving images through multiple tools one by one gets tedious. A proper batching queue or a way to chain tools together would cut our turnaround time noticeably. Customer support has been helpful but response times aren't always quick, which matters when a deadline is pressing. Neither issue is a dealbreaker. For an agency that needs capable AI image tools without locking into a rigid subscription, DeepMaker AI is a genuinely solid call.
