PROJECT

AI image enhancement software for batch processing

Custom software development, AI image enhancement, Batch photo processing, Background removal, Image upscaling, REST API development, High-resolution export

  • Industry: Creative services
  • Austria Location: Austria
  • Delivery time: 16 weeks
  • Technologies: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript (Node.js)
4+ months

This creative agency from Austria handles retouching, enhancement and image generation for creative and marketing work. The AI photo editing platform takes uploaded images, batch folders or API requests and returns enhanced, retouched or generated files. Teams use it to improve image quality, remove blemishes and prepare commercial images. The web interface supports creative teams, while REST APIs connect processing tools with existing applications.

Summary

Problem

The creative agency handles retouching, enhancement and image generation for creative and marketing work.

Solution

The solution became one AI image enhancement software workspace for uploads, processing queues, previews, exports and API access.

Result

The platform is made to reduce manual image-processing work and the time spent preparing commercial files.

Client story

The client is a creative agency from Austria. It handles retouching, enhancement and image generation for creative and marketing work.

The agency works with uploaded images, raw product photos and image batches. It also prepares images through enhancement, blemish removal, cropping, background removal and high-resolution export.

The request was simple: support large image batches, provide a web interface for processing, preserve quality in high-resolution files and expose the tools through backend APIs.

The solution was designed around a web upload screen, an asynchronous processing queue, a result gallery and an administration area for API connections. Processing modules covered image enhancement, product-image improvement, cropping, background removal and upscaling.

The client asked for

  1. Process large image batches through queues or workers
  2. Upload, configure, preview and export images in the browser
  3. Process high-resolution images in required formats and quality
  4. Connect AI processing with APIs and existing applications

Why ready-made software did not fit

Ready-made AI image generators covered image creation and editing, but their descriptions did not combine this agency’s complete processing path in one place. The custom solution was shaped to bring enhancement, retouching, background removal, product-image processing and high-resolution export together with the agency’s own API workflow.

Project overview

The solution was designed around one web workspace that takes uploaded images, raw product photos, zipped folders and API image uploads. The first screen groups enhancement, blemish removal and product-image improvement in one processing start point.

Cropping, background removal and upscaling are also available there.

To handle large batches and multiple users, asynchronous queue-based processing was provided. The queue screen shows progress, processing states and errors, with retry and usage information available for task control.

The result area was designed for a direct visual check. Before-and-after previews, a result gallery, download links and high-resolution PDF or PNG exports keep review and delivery together.

Special attention was paid to integration. REST APIs expose processing capabilities to existing applications, while authentication settings, request examples, job history and logs help a developer inspect service activity.

The platform was structured as modules so additional forms, automations or integrations can be added later without rebuilding the whole application.

Key features delivered

  • AI image quality enhancement
  • Batch image processing
  • Blemish removal
  • Product-image enhancement
  • Custom cropping and resizing
  • Background removal
  • Image upscaling
  • Before-and-after previews
  • High-resolution PDF and PNG export
  • REST API access

Can be added

+ Google Drive image storage + Shopify connection + WooCommerce connection + Export presets

Who else can use this solution

Businesses with a similar image-processing task can adapt the same solution to their own files, review rules and delivery process.

An e-commerce business

Task It needs commercial product imagery generated or modified at scale.
How the solution helps The solution processes product images in batches, improves their quality, removes backgrounds and prepares export files.
Retail stores

An AI photo-processing SaaS provider

Task It needs to offer enhancement, retouching, background removal and image-generation tools.
How the solution helps The solution provides a web interface, queued processing and REST APIs that expose these image functions.
Creative studios

A marketing service

Task It needs to automate retouching, enhancement and image generation for client work.
How the solution helps The solution keeps uploads, processing progress, previews and high-resolution exports in one place.
Creative agencies

Technology stack

Python

Backend and machine learning

Python supports the image-processing backend and machine-learning services.

JavaScript / TypeScript (Node.js)

Web processing and APIs

Node.js supports web-facing processing tools and API integrations.

fastapi

REST API framework

fastapi provides the backend endpoints for image-processing requests.

tensorflow

Machine learning models

tensorflow runs machine-learning models for image enhancement and generation.

opencv

Computer vision processing

opencv handles computer-vision operations in the image pipeline.

gfpgan

Face restoration

gfpgan restores facial details in portrait images.

sharp

Resize and convert images

sharp resizes and converts JPEG, PNG, WebP and other image files.

pyoxipng

PNG optimization

pyoxipng optimizes PNG files for export.

PNG, JPG, PDF and SVG

Image input and export

These formats carry uploaded images, processed files and high-resolution exports.

Integrations

REST APIs

The platform exchanges image-processing requests, responses, previews and download links with existing applications.

Google Drive

The platform can use Google Drive for image storage through a Drive connector.

Shopify and WooCommerce

The platform can connect digital products with Shopify and WooCommerce for product-image workflows.

PDF and PNG export

The platform exports processed high-resolution files as PDF or PNG.

The result

Start an image task with the right tool

The upload screen gives the agency one place to begin image enhancement, retouching and image preparation. It accepts uploaded images and batch files, then keeps the selected processing option with the task.

Crop, resize and background removal sit beside quality enhancement and upscaling, so the agency can prepare an image before it reaches the result gallery.

How it works

  1. The upload area receives uploaded images and batch files.
  2. The tool selector groups enhancement, blemish removal and product enhancement.
  3. The processing task records the selected option together with crop and resize settings.
  • Image Quality Enhancement
  • Remove unwanted blemishes
  • Enhance product images
  • Custom Image Cropping
  • Remove Image Backgrounds
  • Generate high-resolution images
Tip: Batch files keep a larger image task together before processing starts.
Upload and choose an image edit

Upload and choose an image edit

Functions on this screen
Image Quality Enhancement Remove unwanted blemishes Enhance product images Custom Image Cropping Remove Image Backgrounds Generate high-resolution images

Keep large batches visible while they run

The queue screen shows active and queued work through progress bars, queue labels and processing-state filters.

Errors appear beside the related job, with cancel and retry actions available for task control. Usage statistics give the agency a view of service activity.

How it works

  1. The job list shows active and queued image-processing tasks.
  2. Progress bars and queue-status labels show job status and processing progress.
  3. Error messages, cancel or retry actions, and usage statistics describe the current processing activity.
  • Active and queued job list
  • Processing-state filters
  • Error messages
  • Usage statistics
Processing queue and progress

Processing queue and progress

Review the change before exporting it

The result screen puts the original and processed image side by side for a quick image quality improvement check. A result gallery keeps processed images together for review.

Selected files can be downloaded or exported in high-resolution PDF or PNG format. This gives the agency a clear path from enhancement to a commercial file.

How it works

  1. The before-and-after preview displays the original image and processed image.
  2. The result gallery organizes image previews and download links.
  3. The export-format selector provides PDF or PNG high-resolution export.
  • Before-and-after preview
  • Result gallery
  • High-resolution export
Note: PDF and PNG exports cover the formats defined for high-resolution files.
Compare and download results

Compare and download results

Functions on this screen
Export High-Resolution Files Generate high-resolution images

Connect image processing to existing software

The administration screen gives a developer the details needed to connect the platform with an existing application. REST API examples show the shape of requests and responses, while authentication settings control access.

Job history, usage statistics, logs and errors make service activity easier to inspect when an application sends image-processing requests.

How it works

  1. The API endpoint list and request and response examples describe REST API responses.
  2. Authentication settings manage access to image-processing requests.
  3. Job history, usage statistics, logs and errors record service activity and processed photos.
  • API endpoint list
  • Authentication settings
  • Job history table
  • Logs and errors panel
API and workflow administration

API and workflow administration

Functions on this screen
Develop RESTful APIs

What the solution gives

With this solution, the creative agency can:

  • Enhance image quality and remove blemishes in one workspace.
  • Process large image batches through an asynchronous queue.
  • Remove backgrounds, crop images and resize them for commercial use.
  • Review original and processed images before delivery.
  • Export high-resolution files as PDF or PNG.
  • Connect image processing to existing applications through REST APIs.

Could ready-made systems do the job?

Before the design, the task was compared with ready-made products by their own descriptions.

What the client needs AI image generators 1min.AI, Recraft, Adobe Firefly AI creative platforms ImagineArt, Magnific AI image editing models Nano Banana 2, DALL·E Custom solution
Process large image batches — — —
Upload, preview and export files partly partly partly
Process high-resolution images — partly
Connect AI tools through APIs — — —
Fits the client's own rules: stages, roles, reports — — —
All steps in one place — — —
No manual steps between programs — — —

By the public descriptions of the products and their category.

Ready-made products cover image generation, editing and some upscaling or export functions. A ready-made product is enough when only one of these parts is needed.

This agency needed its own software because the products did not cover its complete processing task and rules in one place. Separate products also did not provide the agency’s required processing path through one queue and API workflow.

In the end

In the end, the solution was made to take manual image-processing work out of the path from uploaded files to high-resolution commercial exports.

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