CozAIPhoto

I spent over 2 weeks of nights and weekends building CozAIPhoto from scratch, all because of one thing: most AI photo tools still don’t look “real” enough. I’m not a photographer, just a developer who’s extremely picky about photos. I love magazine-style shots, golden hour light, and candid street photos that feel effortless — but booking a real shoot easily costs hundreds of dollars, and most people (including me) feel awkward in front of a camera. So I tried pretty much every AI photo tool out there: Midjourney, headshot generators, all kinds of AI avatar apps. The results were decent, but they all had that obvious “AI look” — overly smooth skin, flat lighting, and backgrounds that feel like they were described to a computer instead of captured by a real lens. These are not the kind of photos you’d confidently use for dating, LinkedIn, or social media without people instantly guessing they’re AI. CozAIPhoto is built to solve this very specific but very real problem: using AI to create photos that look like they were taken with an actual camera. Not illustrations, not “AI art,” but real photography aesthetics — believable lighting, natural skin texture, realistic depth of field, and environments that feel like real places. Ideally, when someone sees your photo, they shouldn’t immediately ask, “Is this AI?” With CozAIPhoto, you just upload a clear photo of yourself, pick a style (street photography, studio portraits, travel shots, dating photos, etc.), and the system generates a set of 1K–4K images in a few minutes, trying to get as close as possible to real photography. I’m sharing it here because I’d love to hear what you think: how close do these “camera-realistic” AI photos feel to real photography?