AI doesn’t take your photos. It lightens everything around them: quotes, contracts, shoot prep, cutouts, captions, posts. And it brings a new rule: tell the client what was retouched or generated.
AI helps photographers with tasks such as “Price and write the quote for a shoot,” “Prepare the usage license and the model release,” and “Prepare the shot list and timeline for a shoot.” Start with a single task, in Claude: allow 15 minutes the first time, and always review the result before you use it.
For each task: how it goes today, then with the tool. And the time it takes the first time.
Claude · Word file created in the conversation
TodayA request comes in on Sunday evening. You need to answer fast, without forgetting culling time, retouching, travel, or usage rights.
With ClaudeAn item-by-item quote, with the usage rights line, and the message that goes with it.
Claude · File attached to the conversation
TodayA client wants to use your photos “everywhere, forever.” Your old contract template says nothing about media, duration, or territory.
With ClaudeTwo clear drafts, usage license and model release, with the list of points to have verified.
ChatGPT · “Chat” mode
TodayOn the day of the shoot, the group photo with the grandparents gets forgotten, or the director only has ten minutes. What isn’t written down beforehand won’t get done.
With ChatGPTAn hour-by-hour timeline and a shot list to check off, approved by the client before the shoot.
Also
Tally · “Create with AI”
All the information for the shoot arrives at once, organized question by question.
Youtrust · New invitation button
The contract and the release signed before the shoot, filed with their audit trail.
Adobe Firefly · “Firefly Boards”
A board with two directions, where the client chooses the light and the colors before the shoot.
Adobe Firefly · “Generative Fill”
The cleaned-up photo, with an invisible seam, ready to join the set.
Photoroom · Batch processing
The set cut out on a white background, with the same shadow everywhere, and a staged opening image.
Claude · Photos attached to the conversation
A table with the title, caption, and keywords for each image, and the list of releases to check.
Buffer · “AI Assistant”
The week’s posts ready in the queue, each with a text in your voice.
All 10 use cases on this page are in Nova, each with its steps and its prompt.
Try the interactive demoWhat to check
It sometimes gets an addition wrong: recalculate the total. The mandatory information on a quote depends on your business status: check it once with your accountant.
Price and write the quote for a shootClaude · Word file created in the conversationThe prompt to copy
You are helping me write a freelance photographer’s quote. The request: [paste the client’s message]. My rates: [shooting, per day or per half day], [culling and retouching, per hour or per image], [travel], [options: second photographer, online gallery, prints, album]. My status: [sole proprietor with no VAT, or VAT at 20%]. Present the quote item by item: preparation, shooting, culling and retouching, delivery, travel, options. Add a “usage rights” line that specifies the media, the duration, and the territory: [the client’s website and social media, 2 years, France]. State the number of images delivered, the delivery time, the [30%] deposit, and how long the quote is valid. Then write the cover message, in five sentences, warm and specific. Don’t make up any price: ask me a question if a rate is missing.
In Nova, “My path” starts from your level: one next step at a time.
The first moves, with free tools.
In your jobPrice and write the quote for a shoot
In your jobGet the contract and model release signed
In your jobPrepare the usage license and the model release
In your jobPrepare the shot list and timeline for a shoot
For a team: everyone moves forward in their own job. You see the team’s progress, never one person’s activity.
The item-by-item quote, the draft usage license to have reviewed, and the captions for a set from the attached photos.
Recommended planFree to start. Pro, $20 per month ($17 per month if billed yearly), if you use it every day.
Erase a fire extinguisher or a cable from a photo, and build the mood board for a shoot. Adobe says it does not train its AI models on your content.
Recommended planFree, €0: credits that renew every day. Then: Firefly Standard, €11.08 per month, incl. tax. First check what your Creative Cloud subscription includes.
Cut out a whole set of products at once and place it on a white background, with the same shadow everywhere, instead of tracing each outline.
Recommended planPro, $7.50 per month, billed yearly. The free plan is for personal use only.
Get the contract and the model release signed before the shoot, with automatic reminders and an audit trail. Documents are stored in France.
Recommended planFree, €0: two signature invitations per month. Then: One, €9 per month, excl. tax, billed yearly (€108).
Prepare the shot list and the hour-by-hour timeline for a shoot, from the schedule the client sent.
Recommended planFree to start. Plus, $20 per month, if you hit the limits every week.
Prepare the week’s posts in one sitting: they go out at the set time while you are on a shoot.
Recommended planFree, $0: 3 channels and 10 scheduled posts per channel. Then: Essentials, $6 per channel per month ($5 per month if billed yearly).
Prices taken from the vendors’ official pages, dated on each tool page. These subscriptions are not included in Nova. Brands are named to identify the tools. No affiliation.
Nova recommends 6 to start with: Claude, Adobe Firefly, Photoroom, Youtrust, ChatGPT, and Buffer. 5 of them can be used for free to get started.
Yes. Prepare the shot list and the hour-by-hour timeline for a shoot, from the schedule the client sent. The plan to choose: Free to start. Plus, $20 per month, if you hit the limits every week.
With “Price and write the quote for a shoot,” in Claude (Word file created in the conversation). Allow 15 minutes the first time. An item-by-item quote, with the usage rights line, and the message that goes with it.
No. Nova is software, not an accredited training provider: it issues no diploma or certification. It costs €19 per month for one person, and €129 per month for a team of up to ten people.