How-to
Apiway step-by-step guides
Dedicated step-by-step guides for the most common Apiway workflows — each page emits its own HowTo JSON-LD so AI answer engines can lift the steps verbatim into a step-by-step reply. 17 guides, all grounded in the actual product UI.
How-to · Ghost mannequin
How to make a ghost mannequin photo from a phone photo
Turn a phone-quality flat-lay, hanger, or on-mannequin photo of a garment into a clean invisible-mannequin shot on a pure-white background — ready to drop into a Shopify or Amazon product detail page without a Photoshop pass.
5 steps · Beginner · 30 credits
How-to · Amazon FBA
How to create an Amazon-spec main image from a phone photo
Amazon's main image specification for apparel is unambiguous: pure-white RGB(255,255,255) background, garment fills 85% of the frame, no models in the main shot.
6 steps · Beginner · 30 credits
How-to · Shopify
How to create a Shopify PDP shot on an AI fashion model
Shopify product detail pages convert better with on-model imagery than with garment-only shots — but a studio day costs $1,500–$5,000 and turns over 30–50 SKUs at most.
6 steps · Beginner · 50 credits
How-to · Virtual try-on
How to preview a garment on a person with virtual try-on
Combine a person photo and a garment image to generate a try-on preview that preserves fabric texture, color, and design details.
5 steps · Beginner · 25 credits
How-to · Batch ops
How to batch-process 50 products through Apiway in one session
Batch Creation is Apiway's unattended-batch operating mode for catalog work — Shopify weekly drops, Amazon FBA Q4 ramp-ups, and multi-vendor marketplace onboarding.
6 steps · Intermediate · 1500 credits
How-to · Edit with Paint
How to replace a fashion photo background with AI inpainting
Edit with Paint is Apiway's masked-inpainting tool — brush over the regions you want to change, describe what should happen there, and AI updates only those regions.
5 steps · Intermediate · 40 credits
How-to · Paid social
How to generate fashion ad creative for Meta and TikTok
DTC fashion brands live or die on creative volume — Meta Advantage+ and TikTok algorithm both reward weekly creative refresh.
5 steps · Intermediate · 800 credits
How-to · UGC content
How to make UGC-style fashion content from Explore photo sets
Curate creators in the Explore tab, save the photo sets that match your brand voice, then drop your garments onto those creators to produce content that genuinely looks like UGC — not a studio shoot.
8 steps · Beginner · 200 credits
How-to · Instagram feed
How to build a cohesive Instagram feed for a fashion brand
A fashion brand's Instagram grid is judged at the 9-tile preview, not at the individual post level.
7 steps · Intermediate · 600 credits
How-to · Lookbooks
How to create a seasonal lookbook from one garment set
A seasonal lookbook traditionally means a half-day shoot, a model day-rate, a stylist, and a location — $3,000–$15,000 minimum for a small DTC brand.
7 steps · Intermediate · 1200 credits
How-to · Colorways
How to generate colorway variants of a garment from one photo
Turn a single product photo of a t-shirt, hoodie, dress, or jacket into 5–10 colorway variants without re-shooting — fabric texture, stitching, shadow detail and label artwork preserved.
6 steps · Beginner · 80 credits
How-to · Inclusive sizing
How to create inclusive, size-diverse fashion content for a brand
Inclusive fashion brands need imagery showing the same garment on a range of body types, ethnicities, and ages — but a traditional inclusive shoot is the most expensive shoot to produce (more models, more fittings, more days).
6 steps · Intermediate · 400 credits
How-to · Etsy
How to create an Etsy fashion listing from a phone photo
Etsy buyers expect a different image set than Amazon — handmade context, styled lifestyle shots, multiple angles, and clear scale references — and Etsy's image carousel rewards 10 well-merchandised photos over 1 perfect hero.
7 steps · Beginner · 120 credits
How-to · Creator earnings
How to earn money as a fashion model or photographer on Apiway
Apiway's marketplace pays models and photographers when fashion brands use their photo sets for AI generation — a passive-income surface that earns every time a saved creator is picked for Reference Photoshoots, Virtual Try-on, or any other workflow that runs on top of the creator's session.
7 steps · Beginner · 0 credits
How-to · Creator upload
How to upload a photo set as a creator and get your share + listing links
Concrete step-by-step for a creator publishing their first reference photo set on the Apiway marketplace: where the upload form lives, what fields matter, how the credit pool and co-author splits work, where the listing URL and profile URL come from, and how the AI-written listing description and per-photo captions are auto-generated by Gemini in the background — and editable any time.
10 steps · Beginner · 0 credits
How-to · Creator profile
How to set up your public creator profile (avatar, name, URL, publish)
Your public creator profile is the link-in-bio storefront where every photo set you publish gets listed: studio.apiway.ai/<your-username>.
9 steps · Beginner · 0 credits
How-to · Withdrawals
How to withdraw your creator earnings from the Apiway marketplace
Apiway's creator marketplace pays earnings into a separate balance from your generation credits — that balance is payout-only and exists to be withdrawn to fiat (PayPal by default, Wise / bank transfer on request).
7 steps · Beginner · 0 credits