Shoot a product photo

Product Studio behaves differently from everything else. Elsewhere a production starts, finishes and is done. Here you get a board you keep working: shots accumulate, you compare them, mask one, crop another, and use a good one as the reference for the next.

1. 1
   Add a photo of your actual product

   Almost every action refuses until you do. This is not generic image generation; it builds scenes around a real object, so it needs to see the object.

2. 2
   Describe a photograph, not a product

   It already knows what your product looks like. What it needs is everything around it: the surface, the light, the angle, the mood, what else is in frame.

3. 3
   Press Plan it, and read the sayback

   It answers with its understanding in plain words plus an editable spec. Nothing is generated and nothing is charged. A misunderstanding caught here costs you a sentence instead of a render.

4. 4
   Pick a quality tier and render

   Fastest for exploring, highest for the shot you will actually use. You are charged per image kept; a discarded generation is not billed.

5. 5
   Work the board

   Mask, crop, add text, compare. Once one shot is right, build from it with Style reference rather than describing the same thing again.

A weak brief and a real one

• Weak: our moisturiser. That gives it nothing to work with.
• Real: three-quarter view on wet slate, hard side light from the left, water beading on the surface, deep shadow behind.