# Bulk photoshoot (https://docs.apparelai.app/photoshoots/bulk-photoshoot)
**Bulk Photoshoot** runs an AI photoshoot for a whole collection in one batch: up to 50 products, with up to 10 photos each. You set one model, your poses and a background once, and customise any product that needs something different. You can also approve each product's first photo before the rest are made, so a problem costs you one photo instead of a full set.
Bulk Photoshoot is in the web app: click **Bulk Photoshoot** in the sidebar.
Open Bulk Photoshoot
To see whether your plan includes Bulk Photoshoot, check [Compare plans](/billing/plans).
## Create a bulk photoshoot [#create-a-bulk-photoshoot]
The **Bulk photoshoots** page lists your earlier batches under **Recent batches**, with their status and the credits they used. To start a new one, click **Create bulk photoshoot**. There are three steps: **Products**, **Photoshoot** and **Review & start**. You can click an earlier step to go back to it.
### Add your products [#add-your-products]
In **Products**, click **Add product** to add a row, name the product and upload its photos. To use garments you've already uploaded, click **Choose saved products**. Keep each product's photos in its own row. The counter shows how many of the 50 places you've used.
### Continue to the photoshoot settings [#continue-to-the-photoshoot-settings]
When every product has its main photo, click **Continue to photoshoot**. The **Batch overview** panel shows how many products are ready. New photos upload at this point, and uploading uses no credits.
### Set one look for the collection [#set-one-look-for-the-collection]
In **Photoshoot**, choose one model, your poses and a background under **Shared settings**. They apply to every product. To start from a saved look, click **Load a template**.
### Choose the output settings [#choose-the-output-settings]
Pick the **Aspect ratio** and **Resolution**, and add **Additional instructions** if you need them.
### Customise single products (optional) [#customise-single-products-optional]
In **Product settings**, click **Customise** next to a product to give it its own model, poses, background or output settings. The other products keep the shared look.
### Choose how the batch runs [#choose-how-the-batch-runs]
Leave **Review first photo before other poses** on to approve each product's first photo before its other poses are made. Then click **Review batch**.
### Review and start [#review-and-start]
In **Review & start**, give the batch a name, check each product's settings and the **Photoshoot summary**, then click **Start first photos** (or **Start photoshoot** if review is off).
## Photo slots for each garment mode [#photo-slots-for-each-garment-mode]
The photo slots in each row depend on the garment mode you've chosen in **Settings**:
| Garment mode | Required photo | Optional photos |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Standard | **Front photo** | **Back photo** |
| [Dupatta](/garment-modes/dupatta) | **Dupatta** | **Back photo** |
| [Saree](/garment-modes/saree) | **Saree body** | **Pallu**, **Blouse** |
| [Salwar Kameez](/garment-modes/salwar-kameez) | **Top** | **Bottom**, **Dupatta**, **Sleeve** |
| [Shirt](/garment-modes/shirt) | **Shirt fabric** | **Logo**, **Collar**, **Cuff** |
Click **Upload photo** in a slot or drag a photo onto it. You can use JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC photos. Each product name can be up to 100 characters.
### Add products you've already uploaded [#add-products-youve-already-uploaded]
**Choose saved products** opens your [product library](/library/products). Search for a product and click **Add product**. All its photos come with it. The dialog shows how many places are left in the batch. Click **Done** when you've finished.
## One shared look for many products [#one-shared-look-for-many-products]
| Setting | What to know |
| --- | --- |
| **Models** | Pick one model for the whole collection. |
| **Poses** | Pick several. They're numbered in the order you pick them, and the first one is each product's approval photo. Your own poses come first, with a **Custom** badge. You can have up to 10 photos per product. |
| **Backgrounds** | Pick one. **White Seamless** is selected unless you choose another. To describe your own setting, choose **Describe your own** (up to 2,000 characters). |
| **Aspect ratio** | 1:1 Square, 4:5 Social, 4:3 Standard and 3:4 Portrait (selected unless you choose another). **+ 6 more ratios** adds 9:16 Story, 16:9 Landscape, 2:3 Tall, 3:2 Photo, 5:4 Wide and 21:9 Cinema. |
| **Resolution** | **1K Standard** (1 credit per photo), **2K HD** (2 credits, selected unless you choose another) or **4K Ultra** (3 credits). |
| **Additional instructions** | Anything else to keep or change, up to 2,000 characters. In Shirt mode, this section also has the pocket, sleeve length, fit and collar style choices, and the **Logo: chest** and **Logo: back tag** checkboxes. |
Some aspect ratios have slightly different names here than in a single photoshoot (for example, 2:3 is **Tall** here and **Tall Portrait** there).
### Load a template [#load-a-template]
Click **Load a template** to fill in the shared settings:
- **Saved shoot template** applies one of your [shoot templates](/photoshoots/shoot-templates): its model, poses, background, aspect ratio, resolution, instructions and saree styling.
- **First photo look** makes photo 1 of every product use a look from the [Templates gallery](/photoshoots/templates). The background choice is hidden, and any extra poses you pick are based on that first photo. The template photo counts toward the 10 photos per product.
### Customise a product [#customise-a-product]
The **Product settings** table lists each product with its model, poses, background and output. Each value is tagged **Shared** or **Custom**. Click **Customise** next to a product to change its settings, and click **Done** when you've finished. To return a product to the shared look, click **Use all shared settings**.
## Review the first photo before the rest [#review-the-first-photo-before-the-rest]
With **Review first photo before other poses** on (it's on unless you turn it off), every product makes its approval photo first. You approve products one by one, and only then are their remaining poses made. If a product needs changes, you find out after one photo.
To save credits on these first photos, also tick **Create first photo in 1K for preview**. You then check each design for 1 credit. The first photo stays in 1K, and the other poses use the resolution you chose. This option appears when review is on and the resolution isn't 1K.
With review off, the remaining photos continue automatically after the first one.
## Credits [#credits]
Each photo costs credits at its resolution: 1 at 1K, 2 at 2K and 3 at 4K. The footer shows the **credits to start** and the total for the batch. With review on, only the first photos are charged when you start, and the rest after you approve.
For example, 6 products with 4 poses each, at 2K:
| | Review on | Review on, with the 1K preview |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Photos | 24 | 24 |
| Credits to start | 12 | 6 |
| Total credits | 48 | 42 |
If you don't have enough credits, the page tells you how many the batch needs and how many you have, with **Get credits** and **Refresh balance** buttons. See [How credits work](/getting-started/credits).
## After you start [#after-you-start]
The batch opens on its own page, and you can come back to it from **Recent batches** on the **Bulk photoshoots** page. If you allowed browser notifications, ApparelAI tells you when:
- your previews are ready for approval,
- the batch is paused because you need more credits ("Paused: add credits, then resume your photoshoot."),
- your bulk photoshoot is ready, or finished with some failed photos.
See [Notifications](/account/notifications).
## Bulk photoshoot or a single photoshoot? [#bulk-photoshoot-or-a-single-photoshoot]
| | Photoshoot | Bulk Photoshoot |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Products | One | Up to 50 |
| Photos | One photo with one pose | Up to 10 per product |
| Approve the first photo first | No | Yes, unless you turn review off |
| Where to start | **New Photo Shoot** | **Bulk Photoshoot** |
For a single photo, see [Create a photoshoot](/photoshoots/create-a-photoshoot).
## Turn the catalog into video [#turn-the-catalog-into-video]
Any photo from a bulk shoot can become a video with AI Image to Video. The Fit check, Seamless loop and Turnaround motion templates are made for product pages. See [Turn a photo into a video](/video/image-to-video).
## Frequently asked questions [#frequently-asked-questions]
You can shoot up to 50 products in one batch, with up to 10 photos each. You choose one model, your poses and a background once, and they apply to every product.
Every pose of every product is one photo, and each photo costs 1 credit at 1K, 2 at 2K or 3 at 4K. For example, 6 products with 4 poses each at 2K make 24 photos for 48 credits, or 42 credits with the 1K preview. If a running batch runs out of credits, it pauses until you add credits and resume it.
Yes. Leave **Review first photo before other poses** on, and each product's other poses start only after you approve its first photo. To check each design for 1 credit, also tick **Create first photo in 1K for preview**.
Yes. In **Product settings**, click **Customise** next to a product to give it its own model, poses, background or output settings, and the other products keep the shared look. **Use all shared settings** puts a product back on the shared look.
Yes. Each product row has the photo slots of your garment mode: **Saree body** plus optional **Pallu** and **Blouse** in Saree Mode, or **Top** plus optional **Bottom**, **Dupatta** and **Sleeve** in Salwar Kameez Mode. Choose the mode in **Settings** before you start.
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