April 04, 2025

Dev Diaries: New AI Tools, Automation, and Fast Previews – April 2025 Edition

Dev Diaries: New AI Tools, Automation, and Fast Previews – April 2025 Edition

Hey Creatives! 

Welcome back to Dev Diaries, the monthly report in your backstage pass for what's happening on the inside for all things imagine.io platform. As always, we are constantly building, refining, and pushing boundaries to make your creative ability faster, smarter, and scalable — and this month? Super exciting updates.

Whether you are a solo designer or a part of a great, big revenue-generating company, these features are just about taking the friction out, boosting visual output, and giving you back time to focus on really nice things, like making great, amazing stuff.

So grab your coffee, let's dive in. 

Generate Visuals: Automation that Works While You Sleep 

Your product line grows. You're now managing thousands of SKUs. Your team is drowning in a volume of requests for content. 

We know how it is.

That is the reason we designed the Generate Visuals feature, which is your new companion in content that will be automating imagery production as it has never been done before. Your visual assembly line (but smarter) in much the way that it works. 

Note: Generate Visuals is available as an add-on to standard subscriptions.

With one-click batch generation for multiple products, it has become that simple using your existing 3D models and textures inside imagine.io-an add-on of Generate Visuals saves time and effort. This is where you can generate:

  • Silo shots with clean, transparent backgrounds
  • Dimension views for product listings
  • Lifestyle scenes that show your product lured in a real-world context 

It gets especially powerful with these massive eCom or retail teams. For example, updating seasonal catalogs, refreshing PDPs, or prepping assets for marketplaces — Generate Visuals helps you do it all without needing to hire more designers or artists. As a very special added bonus, it can be attached to any existing subscription. 

If you're ready to go from "manual" to "automated," this one's a no-brainer.

Real-Time Super-fast: See Changes (Really)

Raise a hand if you have ever hit “render” and… waited. And waited, just to check if that angle or lighting setup works. Yeah, we all know that. That’s why we are excited to announce the Fast Preview. 

Want to reposition the camera? Move around lights? Change the background? All updates will be reflected instantaneously. Here’s how that looks in your workflow:

  • Eliminate guesswork—render and hope it looks good.
  • Make decisions efficiently—catch mistakes before they become labor-intensive fixes.
  • Iterate hard—try all angles, lights, props—render only when absolutely positive.

Bottom line? Freedom to create and validate how your renders will look quickly

So, What Does This Mean to You?

We are not just building features—we are building a platform that changes with you. 

When it comes to product launch, seasonal campaigns, or just keeping pace with content demand, this month’s features are all about helping you do the following:

  • Put together more content in less time
  • Remove technical roadblocks
  • Accelerate experimentation and feedback loops

And this is just the start.

So, what next? What features would elevate your workflow? We are all ears—comment below or shoot us a message.

Until next time,

Happy creating!