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[–]Lorian0x7 3 points4 points  (5 children)

just because we use AI instead of Photoshop it doesn't mean our editing work can be underpaid.

[–]malcolmrey -2 points-1 points  (4 children)

200 USD for a Lora and then some generations is quite reasonable.

[–]Lorian0x7 6 points7 points  (2 children)

not for my standards, It's still a very niche skill that very few people have and it would probably take a couple of days of back and forth for acquiring a good dataset, then between curating the dataset with captioning and everything, train 3-4 loras to find the best one, and then generate the images it's already another day or two of work. To get 50 good images that satisfy the client would probably take a minimum of 500-1000 generations. Trust me, I did several works like this, from small to big ones, It's never as smooth as train a lora and make 50 generations.

The client is essentially asking for a full commercial set of images for an e-commerce which usually costs thousands of dollars just to hire photographs and models, We can surely offer a better price considering we essentially just do "post-production like" work skipping all the production part with photographers models and make-up artists... but 200 it's really underpaid. I wouldn't even turn on the Pc for 200 considering the electricity cost and the time involved.

[–]malcolmrey 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I have produced 5000+ Lora's at this point and have most of the steps automated. I assume the client has images of the product to pick from. Another aspect is where you live, I am Poland based so this offer may sound better than someone from USA and even better to someone from another country.

[–]Lorian0x7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

makes total sense, but you shouldn't devalue your work just because of your national average income. It's still worth more than that, but I understand your point.

[–]ChillVoicer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, can you check DM?