Free AI image prompt generator: product photos that keep your product

• Studio packshot. The product alone on a clean seamless background. Your store's main image, marketplace listings and comparison tables.
• Lifestyle. The product in a real home or place, in natural use. Ads, landing pages and social posts, where buyers need to picture it in their own life.
• Flat lay. Top-down, with a few props that tell the story (a towel, a coffee cup, a notebook). Instagram, bundles and kits.
• In-hand UGC. A real hand holding the product, phone-camera look. Feels like a customer photo: strong in TikTok and Reels ads and reviews sections.
• Ingredients & materials. The product surrounded by what it is made of. Food, drinks, skincare and anything where the ingredients are the selling point.
• Seasonal campaign. Holiday, summer, back-to-school. Refreshes your creative without a new shoot.

1. 1Reference lock. "Keep the exact product from the reference image: same shape, same label, same colours, same proportions." Upload a clean photo of your product; the words protect it from being redesigned.
2. 2Composition and camera. Where the product stands, the angle (eye level, top-down, three-quarter), the lens and the distance. "Shot at eye level with a 50mm lens" gives a natural perspective; wide lenses distort packaging.
3. 3Surface and two to four props. A marble counter, a pale oak shelf, a linen cloth. Props should explain the use (a towel for skincare, a mug for coffee), not fill the frame.
4. 4Light with a direction. "Soft morning daylight from a window on the left" tells the model where shadows fall, which is what makes a product look placed rather than pasted.
5. 5Background and finish. Blurred or plain, natural colours, crisp label. End with the aspect ratio you need.

A lifestyle shot for a skincare bottle, in the 4:5 format used by feed ads:

Keep the exact product from the reference image: same shape, same label, same colours, same proportions. The product stands on a pale oak bathroom shelf next to a rolled white cotton towel and a small green plant, shot at eye level with a 50mm lens from about 60 cm. Soft morning daylight from a window on the left casts a long gentle shadow to the right. Blurred white tiles in the background, natural colours, crisp label. 4:5.

Notice that the prompt says almost nothing about how the bottle looks. The reference photo carries the product; the prompt carries everything around it.

• Describing the packaging in detail instead of uploading it: the model redraws the label from your words and gets it wrong.
• Asking for text, logos or claims that are not on the real product: they will appear, misspelled.
• Too many props: the product stops being the subject. Two to four is enough.
• No light direction: the product looks pasted onto the background because its shadows do not match.
• Generating square and cropping to 9:16 later: the product gets cut. Generate in the final ratio.

Generate with a model that accepts reference images: Nano Banana Pro, GPT Image 2.5 and Seedream each have their own prices and strengths. For a full product shoot workflow see AI product photography. To add a person holding or using the product, create one with the AI influencer prompt generator; to make it move, use the image in the AI video prompt generator.