Product Photography Prompt
Specifies the lighting setup and the surface, which is what separates a product photograph from a render.
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Running it, start to finish
- Choose a lighting setup appropriate to the product's material.
- Specify the surface, the background falloff and the shadow.
- Composite any packaging text rather than generating it.
What you get back
The output this produces, every time.
- Specifies a named lighting setup, which is the single highest-leverage instruction for product imagery.
- Describes the shadow explicitly, since an object with none reads as a composite immediately.
- Flags what must be composited afterwards, particularly packaging text.
Getting better results
Where this usually goes wrong, and how to avoid it.
- Match light quality to material. Glossy surfaces need large soft sources and controlled reflections. Getting this wrong is why generated product shots look plastic.
- Describe the surface. 'White background' produces a flat cut-out. A named material with a soft falloff reads as a real studio.
- Composite the packaging text. Generated text on a product is unreliable across a set, and a brand asset needs consistency.
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