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AI Photoshoot
  • Make your first image
  • The Photoshoot Wizard
  • Prompt patterns
  • Reusing products and faces
  • Quality tiers (1K, 2K, 4K)
Video Studio
  • Make your first video
  • Animate a still
  • Picking a vibe
Photo Magic
  • Photo Magic overview
  • Remove Background
  • Replace Background
  • Extend
  • Erase
  • Upscale a photo
  • Model Swap
  • Advanced Edit
Brand Library
  • Products explained
  • Adding a product
  • Faces explained
  • Generate a face
  • Styles explained
  • Trained models
Studios
  • Studios explained
  • Picking a Studio
  • Custom Studios coming soon
Workspace
  • Your library
  • Creating boards
  • Saving and sharing
  • Inviting members
  • Roles explained
Plans & Billing
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  • How credits work
  • Top up credits
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  • Launch promo (April 2026)
Free Shot
  • The free Shot tool
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AI Photoshoot

Prompt patterns

Studios give you 80% of the look. Your prompt fills in the other 20%. Keep it short, specific, concrete. Write what you want to see, not what you want to avoid.

A reliable structure#

Subject, environment, framing, mood. Example: "Matte black perfume bottle, smooth concrete pedestal, medium close-up, warm afternoon light."

Patterns that work#

  • Product on surface. "[Product] on [surface], [light direction], [mood]."
  • Lifestyle hold. "[Person] holding [product], [setting], [time of day]."
  • Editorial. "[Product], [creative angle], [color palette], [reference style]."

Patterns that backfire#

  • Too many adjectives. "Beautiful, stunning, high-quality, premium" adds noise without signal.
  • Conflicting moods. "Warm but cool" tells the model to give up. Pick one.
  • Multiple subjects in one shot. Often produces a grid. Run separate generations.
  • Long lists of negatives. "No X, no Y" is weaker than positive descriptions of what you want.

Tips#

Tip: Specific beats general. "Matte black" beats "dark." "Editorial" beats "nice."

Tip: When a generation lands, copy its prompt and adjust one variable at a time.

Tip: Mention @product early AND late in long prompts. The model latches harder.

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