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PhotoRoom Make integrationAutomate PhotoRoom with Make.

Every new product photo can come out clean, without opening an editor. The PhotoRoom Make integration gives you 3 action modules: background removal, text removal and a raw API call. This page shows you how to connect your key and build a first scenario.

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What you can automate

What can the PhotoRoom Make integration do for you?

The PhotoRoom Make integration lets Make send your images to PhotoRoom and get them back edited, with no manual step in between. Make builds a scenario, the automation you design, out of modules, one brick each. PhotoRoom supplies three of those bricks, all of them actions.

A clean catalog shot for an online store. A photo lands in the app where your team drops product pictures, and Remove a Background from an Image returns the item cut out, ready for a listing page. Each image is one bundle, the item Make passes from one module to the next.

Marketplace pictures without leftover captions. Supplier images often carry printed text. Remove a Text with AI strips it before the picture goes live, and you can chain it right after the background removal in the same scenario.

Anything else the PhotoRoom API offers. When neither module fits, Make an API Call reaches any endpoint of the API through the same connection.

What Make does not do here: PhotoRoom has no trigger, so the scenario has to start from another app or from Make's own schedule. If you are weighing tools, the n8n vs Make comparison lays out the differences, and the same app often has an n8n node too. To learn the editor properly, see Make training; to check what your plan covers, read Make pricing.

Connect

How do you connect PhotoRoom to Make?

  1. 01

    Copy your API key from PhotoRoom

    You need an active PhotoRoom account and an API key. In PhotoRoom, open your account settings, click the API dashboard section and copy the key shown on screen. Keep that tab open for the next step.

  2. 02

    Open a PhotoRoom module in Make

    In your scenario, add any PhotoRoom module and click Create a connection. A connection is your PhotoRoom account linked to Make once, then reused by every PhotoRoom module you add later.

  3. 03

    Name it and paste the key

    The Connection name field is optional, but a clear name helps when you run several accounts. Paste the API key you copied, confirm, and Make saves the connection for the whole scenario.

First scenario

Build your first scenario with PhotoRoom

GoalWhen a new product photo shows up in another app, Make sends it to PhotoRoom to remove the background and then any stray text.

  1. 01

    Create the scenario

    From the Scenarios page, create a new scenario and click the + to add the first module: the app where your photos arrive, since PhotoRoom has no trigger of its own.

  2. 02

    Add the background removal

    Click the + on the right of that first module, search for PhotoRoom and pick Remove a Background from an Image. Choose your connection, then map the image coming from the previous module.

  3. 03

    Chain the text removal

    Add Remove a Text with AI with the next +, and map the image returned by the background step. Your photo now goes through both edits in one pass.

  4. 04

    Test with Run once

    Click Run once to run the scenario one time. Open each module's bubble to read the bundles it received and check that the image came out as expected.

  5. 05

    Schedule and switch it on

    Set the schedule on the first module, every 15 minutes by default, then switch the scenario on. From now on, new photos get cleaned without you stepping in.

Modules

What PhotoRoom can do in Make

PhotoRoom gives you 3 modules. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

PhotoRoom1

Make an API Call

Action

In Make“Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.”

This module opens the whole PhotoRoom API to your scenario, using the connection you already set up, so you are not limited to the two editing modules.

When to use it
a PhotoRoom feature you need has no dedicated module in Make, and you know which API endpoint handles it.
Watch out
you describe the request yourself, so keep PhotoRoom's API documentation open to get the endpoint and its parameters right.
PhotoRoom2

Remove a Background from an Image

Action

In Make“Removes a background.”

Hand it a picture and you get the subject back with its background gone, ready for a product page or a clean visual.

When to use it
a new product shot arrives from your storage or shop app and needs a neutral look before it is published.
Watch out
each image counts as one operation on your plan, and the Free plan caps files at 5 MB, so check the size of your heaviest photos before sending them.
PhotoRoom3

Remove a Text with AI

Action

In Make“Automatically removes any unwanted text from the images.”

Unwanted text printed on an image disappears, so you keep the visual and lose the caption, watermark text or label that got in the way.

When to use it
supplier or user pictures come with writing on them and you want a clean version before reusing it.
Watch out
it targets text in the image, so review a few results with Run once before trusting it on a whole catalog.
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FAQ

PhotoRoom and Make: common questions

01Is the PhotoRoom Make integration free?
Yes on the Make side: PhotoRoom is a standard app, available from the Free plan. That plan allows 2 active scenarios, a minimum of 15 minutes between scheduled runs, 5 minutes of execution per run, files up to 5 MB and 512 MB of data transfer. Every module run on one image counts as an operation. Paid plans lower the interval to 1 minute and lift the active scenario limit. PhotoRoom itself needs an active account and an API key, and its own subscription terms are on PhotoRoom's pricing page.
02What do you need to connect PhotoRoom to Make?
An active PhotoRoom account and its API key. You find the key in your PhotoRoom account settings, under the API dashboard section, and copy it from the screen. In Make, add a PhotoRoom module, click Create a connection, give it a name if you like, and paste the key. The connection is stored once and every PhotoRoom module in your scenarios reuses it, so you only go through this step a single time per account.
03Can the PhotoRoom Make integration start a scenario in real time?
No, PhotoRoom has no trigger module in Make, so it cannot start a scenario by itself. You start the flow another way. Either put a trigger from another app first, for instance the tool where new photos land, or let Make run the scenario on its schedule, every 15 minutes by default and down to 1 minute on paid plans. If that other app offers an instant trigger, it calls Make through a webhook as soon as something happens, and PhotoRoom then edits the image in the same run.
04What if a PhotoRoom module is missing in Make?
Use Make an API Call. It reaches any endpoint of the PhotoRoom API with the connection you already created, so you can cover features the two editing modules do not handle. You write the request yourself, based on PhotoRoom's API documentation. If the limit is on the Make side instead, such as the 5 minute run time on the Free plan, a paid plan raises it to 40 minutes per run.
05Should you use Make or n8n for PhotoRoom?
It depends on the tool your team already works in. On Make, PhotoRoom comes with three modules: background removal, text removal and Make an API Call for the rest of its API. The same app often has an n8n node as well, so check what that node covers before choosing. Neither tool is ranked here: compare the modules each one offers for PhotoRoom against your use case, and read the n8n vs Make comparison for the broader differences between the two platforms.
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