An AI Ad for a Store or a Property

Quick answer: Add a photo of the place — the shopfront with its sign, the room, the lobby, the kitchen of the house — and the reading files it as a store / property. A place is never cut out or redrawn: the sign, the depth and the scale would go. Your photo is kept, the people in it are removed, and the ad is set inside it with a generated cast: shoppers, a stylist and a client, a family walking through the house. Lead with A day in the life, thirty seconds, and let the end card carry the name from the sign and Visit us.

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Which photos work covers the general rules; this page is the place case.

What counts as a place

Anything the customer walks into: a shop, a café (see restaurants), a salon, a gym, a clinic, a hotel, an office, a house or a flat for sale or rent. The reading files it as store / property. If the photo is ambiguous — a product on a shelf inside your shop — the one line settles it: write our shop and it is a place, not a product.

The photos

First: the frontage with the sign, straight on, in daylight; or, for a property, the best room. Then up to three more: the interior from the door, a second room, a detail. Customers, staff, the family who lives there: all fine — the composer says People will be removed, and they are, while the room stays exactly as it is.

The episode asset library showing generated character sheets, location images and prop images — A shop or a home is filed as a place: your photo becomes the first scene the ad is set in, without the people.

Why the place is kept

Products are cleaned onto a white background so the ad can put them anywhere. A place cannot be treated that way: cut out, a shopfront loses its sign, a room loses its depth and scale. So the photo is kept and used as the first scene the ad happens in; the ad’s people are generated into it. That is why the redraw button is not offered for the main image.

What the ad shows

Your place, with life in it: the door opening, someone browsing, a haircut in the chair, a couple standing in the living room deciding. Extra photos become the rooms the shots move through. The second-photo rule: for places, every photo you add becomes a set, so a shop, its interior and its fitting room can all appear.

Which vibe

A day in the life: people using the place. Warm: a neighbourhood shop, a family salon. Minimal: a design store, a high-end property. Show how it works: a gym class, a service with steps. Epic: a hotel with a view. Thirty seconds for a place; sixty for a property tour with more rooms.

The one line

A family barbershop on the corner of Elm Street, walk-ins welcome; a two-bedroom flat by the park, ready to move in. The name and the offer go here so the end card has them. Keep it to what is visibly true; superlatives are removed.

The end card

The sign is read and printed as the brand. If the brand and the product name are the same — a shop named after itself — one line is printed. Add a call to action: Visit us, Book an appointment, Arrange a viewing. The name reaches the viewer here, not on the shots. The end card.

Place	First photo	Vibe	Length
A shop	The frontage with the sign	A day in the life / Warm	30s
A salon or clinic	The room from the door	Show how it works / Warm	30s
A gym	The floor in use	Show how it works / Epic	30s
A hotel	The lobby or the view	Epic / Minimal	30–60s
A home for sale	The best room	A day in the life / Minimal	60s

FAQ

Will the ad show my actual shop?

Yes. A place photo is kept and used as the set; only the people are removed.

There are customers in my photo.

Fine. People are removed and the room stays; the ad's own cast is generated into it.

Why can't I redraw the shop photo?

Cutting a place out would lose its sign, depth and scale. Places are kept as shot.

Can I add several rooms?

Yes. For places, every photo you add becomes a set the shots can move through, up to four.

Will the shop's name be visible in the ad?

On the end card, printed from the sign. Generated video does not write legible text, so the shots are not where the name is delivered.

Photograph the frontage and go

One photo of the place, A day in the life, thirty seconds.

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Updated September 26, 2026