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Add Retouchable to Claude

Edit your product photos in a Claude chat: cut them out, put them on white or your brand colour, relight them as studio shots, clean them up and publish them to your Shopify store. You add Retouchable yourself, as a custom connector, with the address below.

Connector address https://api.retouchable.ai/api/mcp

Add the connector

Retouchable isn’t in Claude’s connector directory, and it isn’t made by Anthropic. You add it by its address, as a custom connector, and Claude may label it Custom.

It works on every Claude plan, Free included (the Free plan allows one custom connector). Do this on a computer, at claude.ai or in the Claude desktop app: adding a connector on a phone is still in beta. Once it’s connected, you can use it from Claude on your phone too.

In Claude, open Customize → Connectors.
Choose + Add, then Add custom connector. (You may see Add → Custom → Web instead.)
Name it Retouchable, paste the address https://api.retouchable.ai/api/mcp and choose Continue.
Claude shows the sign-in settings it found. Choose Continue.
For how people sign in, choose Sign in when needed. For the OAuth client, choose Register automatically, not Claude’s published identity. Leave the request headers empty.
Choose Add.

Team and Enterprise plans: an Owner adds the connector once in Organization settings → Connectors (Add → Custom → Web). Each member then finds it under Customize → Connectors and chooses Connect.

Claude Code: run claude mcp add --transport http retouchable https://api.retouchable.ai/api/mcp, then /mcp to sign in. Where the upload box or the result card can’t be shown, Claude gives you an upload link and each result’s address instead.

To use it in a chat, make sure Retouchable is on under + → Connectors in that chat.

The first time you ask for something that needs your account, Claude shows a Connect button. (You can also choose Connect beside Retouchable in Customize → Connectors.)

Retouchable’s sign-in page opens, headed Connect Retouchable to Claude. Continue with Google, with your email (we send a code, and you type it into that same window) or with Shopify.
New to Retouchable? Signing in makes your account, on the Free plan: 10 credits a month, no card.
The next page says Claude wants to use Retouchable and names your workspace. Open What Claude will be able to do to see the list, check that Allow takes you back to claude.ai, and choose Allow.

Claude can grade the product photos of any public Shopify store before you sign in. Everything else works in your Retouchable workspace, as you.

Add your photos

A photo you attach to the chat can’t reach Retouchable: Claude can look at it, but it can’t hand the file to a connector. Use the upload box instead.

Ask Claude: “I want to edit some product photos.” Allow it if Claude asks, and an upload box opens in the chat.
Drop in up to 10 photos from your phone or computer (JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 50 MB each). The × on a photo takes it back out.
Choose Done in the box, then tell Claude what you want done with them.

If the box doesn’t appear, Claude gives you a private upload link instead. It works for 30 minutes, on any device; ask for a new one if it runs out.

Photos already in your store don’t need uploading. With your Shopify store connected to Retouchable, ask “Show me the photos of the Classic Mug” and work from there.

What you can ask

Ask in your own words. Up to 10 photos go through in one request with the same settings. Anything marked ✦ uses an AI image model and costs a credit: it either re-draws the product, keeping its shape, angle and hue, or builds a studio around your own pixels. Everything else keeps your photo’s own pixels and is free.

Remove the background Free

Remove the background from all of them.

A cutout as a transparent PNG, or on white.

White or a colour, in Exact Free

Put these on pure white in Exact, with no shadow.

Your photo’s own pixels on pure white, your brand colour or any colour, with no floor under them. Only their light is corrected. This is the Studio’s Exact mode: say “Exact” or “keep my photo” to get it.

White or a colour in Exact, with a floor ✦ 1 credit

Put this on white in Exact, with a soft shadow.

Your photo’s own pixels, laid over a studio shot an AI image model makes around them, with a soft, drop or floating shadow, or a mirror or frosted reflection.

Studio relight ✦ 1 credit

Make it a studio shot on white with a mirror reflection.

The product re-photographed in new studio light, with its hue kept. This is the Studio’s default mode, so a studio shot on a background is relit unless you ask for Exact. Photos of one product pressed with the same look come back framed and coloured to match.

A scene or a paper backdrop ✦ 1 credit

Put the candle on a marble counter in morning light.

A lifestyle setting described in words, or a paper sweep.

From above or from the front ✦ +1 credit

Show the shirt laid flat from above, pressed.

The product re-photographed as a flat lay or a front view, steamed or pressed, before the background goes on.

Retouch the product ✦ 1 credit

Clean up the dust and creases on the first one.

Wrinkles, lint, dust, marks and colour on the product. Everything that isn’t the product keeps its pixels, so a retouch can’t change the background.

Publish to Shopify Free

Make the first one the main photo of the Classic Mug.

By default a result replaces the store photo it was made from, in the same position. It can also be added, or made the main photo. Shoppers see it at once, and Retouchable keeps a copy of the original. A watermarked result is always added and never swapped in. Needs your Shopify store connected in Retouchable.

Grade a store’s photos Free, no account

How good are the product photos on example.myshopify.com?

Background consistency, exposure, colour casts, aspect ratios and marketplace rules, with the worst images listed. Takes about two minutes.

Send photos to the app Free

Stage the Classic Mug’s photos for retouching in the app.

Copies the product’s images into a folder in your Retouchable workspace, to work on by hand.

Publishing changes what shoppers see. Claude asks for your approval before it uses a tool that changes something, the upload box and every edit included, unless you have chosen Always allow for that tool.

The result card

A studio shot, a retouch or a cutout appears in the chat on a card. It shows your original while the work runs, then the result.

Hold to see the original on the same frame.
Download saves the result; with several photos, Download all saves every one. Each photo has its own tab.
Put on Shopify picks a product and adds the result, makes it the main photo, or replaces a photo you choose (a watermarked result never replaces one).
Change opens the Studio’s own choices (Show, Background, Floor, Mode) and re-shoots one photo or all of them in place. The button says what it will cost. If a re-shoot fails, the photo keeps its last result.

Credits and plans

Every plan has one monthly pool of credits, and every job spends from it: one photo through any tool is one credit.

Background removal, or a transparent cutout with or without a shadow: Free
Exact on white, your brand colour or any colour, with no floor: Free
Exact on white or a colour, with a shadow or reflection ✦: 1 credit
A studio relight, a scene or a paper backdrop ✦: 1 credit
From above or from the front ✦, on top of the look: +1 credit
A retouch ✦: 1 credit
Publishing, grading a store, sending photos to the app: Free

Work that fails gives its credit back, and so does a relight that didn’t pass our own check or couldn’t give a clean backdrop. The free jobs keep working when your credits run out.

Free: 10 credits a month; Free for good, no card. The credits come back every 30 days. Every result is 1K and watermarked, the free jobs included, except the first two photos you spend a credit on.
Plus: 150 credits a month; $29 a month, or $22 a month billed yearly. No watermark, exports up to 2K.
Pro: 500 credits a month; $99 a month, or $74 a month billed yearly. No watermark, exports up to 4K.

More on each plan is on the pricing section of our home page.

Each workspace also has daily limits: 100 studio shots, 50 retouches, 100 background removals, 20 Shopify publishes, 10 store grades (3 without an account), 10 sends to the app and 30 upload boxes (200 photos).

People and fine markings

Retouchable never re-draws a person through Claude. A studio shot of a photo with someone in it runs in Exact: the studio is built around their own pixels, and the result says so. From above and from the front don’t run on those photos, and a retouch of one is refused; the Retouchable app has tools for those.

Items a buyer judges by fine detail, such as a watch dial, a coin, a card or a legible serial number, also run in Exact, because a re-draw garbles lettering. If you want one relit anyway, say so.

Your data

Retouchable receives only what Claude sends to its tools: the photos and settings for each request. It never sees your conversation.
Photos you upload and the results are stored in your Retouchable workspace. Uploads are checked and re-encoded, and their metadata (such as location) is removed.
The connection acts as you, in the workspace you chose, with the permissions you allowed. It stops working if you disconnect it or leave the workspace.
The AI providers that make the ✦ edits are listed in our privacy policy.

Disconnect

In Retouchable: Settings → AI agents → Connected apps, and hold Disconnect beside Claude. It stops working at once.
In Claude: Customize → Connectors, then remove Retouchable. To pause it for one chat, switch it off under + → Connectors.

If something goes wrong

I can’t find Retouchable in Claude’s directory

It isn’t listed there. Add it by its address, as a custom connector.

Claude says it can’t see my photos

Attached photos don’t reach connectors. Ask for the upload box (“I want to edit some product photos”) and add them there.

The sign-in code didn’t arrive

Check your spam folder, or go back and continue with Google or Shopify instead.

Claude says I’m out of credits

The message says when your credits come back. To keep going now, choose a plan. Your library and connection stay as they are, and the free jobs keep working.

The Shopify tools say nothing is connected

Connect your store in Retouchable: Settings → Connections.

A studio shot came back in Exact

The result says why. With a person in the photo or an item with fine markings, it costs what Exact costs: 1 credit with a shadow or reflection on white or a colour, free as a cutout or with no floor. If the relight couldn’t give a clean backdrop, the credit comes back.

Claude asks me to connect again

The connection was disconnected in Settings, or you left the workspace. Choose Connect and sign in again.

Anything else: hello@retouchable.ai.