Christmas Fashion Visual Templates Created Using AI

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In my career as a Digital Agency Designer, managing hundreds of clients across multiple industries, I am faced with both the most difficult and the most profitable time of the year. It’s when all of my clients ask for updated designs for their annual end-of-year campaigns, and they all want them immediately. The reality of this is a situation where I’m required to develop large numbers of high-quality content, in a very short amount of time, and that is what I experience every December, until AI has changed the way I work on projects.

Last December was one of the lowest points in my professional career. The agency where I work received 45 project briefs for Christmas campaigns that needed to be delivered in a three-week period. As the Lead Content Designer, my job was to make sure that my clients received everything from social media templates, email marketing, and web banners on time, and of the highest quality.

Historically, I would have had to build a custom background for each client from nothing. For example, fashion clients wanted bright holiday-style backgrounds, Food & Beverage clients wanted soft warm cozy Christmas-themed backgrounds and beauty clients wanted ultra-elegant high-end backgrounds. Different clients required different images that matched their brand.

I would spend hours looking for stock images, creating multiple composite images in Photoshop, adding colour grading and light adjustments. Each of these templates took at least 2 to 3 hours of work.

Once again, the workload took its toll on my team. Working until nearly midnight became routine for them, resulting in a decrease in the overall quality of their work, due to excessive fatigue. As a result, certain clients began complaining about late deliveries. Therefore, I concluded that something must change, or I would begin losing clients and overworking my team.

Workflow Revolution with AI Background Swap

My design direction for this year has completely evolved because of a new tool I have recently implemented on my website, VISBOOM. Visboom is an AI-powered image editing site that allows me to easily swap out images or backgrounds during the design process, which helps with speed and also alters completely how I think about and design projects.

In the past, one of my major strategic shifts in design was the implementation of a fully realized template system. With Visboom, I am now able to create small collections of Christmas-themed images or templates, organized into four main categories. "Luxury Christmas" includes a variety of elegant gold and white colour tones; "Warm And Cozy", with lots of reds and oranges and images that evoke a warm home and the gathering around a fireplace; "Modern Minimalist", which is perfect for brands that prefer more subtle festive looks; and "Bold And Playful", designed specifically for youth-orientated clients.

Each of these categories includes 10-15 types of photos to choose from, and between all four categories, I have produced over 60 professional-looking background templates. Prior to using Visboom, the time and resources that I spent creating 10 unique backgrounds would only have produced 10 templates created by me. This significant increase in efficiency is because of the efficiency that Visboom’s artificial intelligence brings to the project – I spend my time focusing my creative ideas and management, not on low-level, time-consuming, manual labour.

New Workflow: Speed Meets Quality

When client briefs come in, my process is now streamlined:

Concept Phase - This phase will take approximately 30 minutes to complete, where we will analyse the Brand Identity and determine a Target Audience, identify Campaign Objectives and choose the appropriate background template from our existing background template Library.

Creative/Design Phase - This phase will take approximately 45 minutes to complete, where you will upload products photos and/or other brand assets into Visboom, which will automatically integrate the uploaded assets into the previously chosen background. Visboom uses AI technologies to automatically adjust lighting, maintain shadow consistency, and ensure the colour of all assets match.

Final Phase - This will take approximately 30 minutes to add the finishing touches to your designs, including typography and other brand elements, and any call to action(s) using design tools.

In total, a project will take approximately 2 hours to complete compared to 6-8 hours to complete using the traditional methods. The project will maintain or improve quality due to having the additional time available to make more informed creative decisions and focus on the creative aspects versus the technical "grunt" work.

Scalability and Client Satisfaction

The effect of the technology on my business metrics is major. I can now support my team in handling 3x the amount of work concurrently without sacrificing quality. The number of revision rounds has dropped by 40% as the backgrounds that have been created using AI assistance are far more consistent and professional than they were previously. Client satisfaction ratings have risen from an average of 7.5/10 to 9.2/10.

The greatest benefit of the technology is its ability to allow for quick iteration. Many times, clients will request several different variations of a project for A/B testing. Previously, each version of each variation was an extremely long process, taking hours of work. Now I can create 5-6 different versions of a single project in the same timeframe that it used to take to create a single version. My clients are thrilled with this and have been willing to pay significantly more for fast turnaround services.

Creative Freedom, Not Limitations

There's a misconception that using AI templates makes design work "cookie-cutter" or generic. My reality is completely opposite. The template library is a foundation that frees me to explore creative possibilities more deeply. With technical heavy lifting handled by AI, my mental energy can be dedicated to storytelling, brand narrative, and emotional impact, the aspects that truly differentiate great design from mediocre ones.

For fellow content designers struggling with high-volume seasonal work, integrating AI tools like Visboom into workflow is a strategic necessity, not an optional luxury. Christmas season demand won't decrease; technology gives us the capability to meet that demand without sacrificing quality, sanity, or work-life balance. This year, my team delivered our best work ever with significantly less stress. That's testament to the power of working smarter, not just harder.