# NORTHLINE ecommerce product-photography prompt pack **FICTIONAL WORKED EXAMPLE — replace every product fact and destination rule with your approved record.** These prompts create review candidates, not product authority or publish-ready advertising. Attach the exact approved source image. Keep claims, prices, offers, disclosures, CTA text, and final typesetting outside the visual model. Reject any return that changes the sold product. ## Replace these variables first - `[PRODUCT_NAME]`: exact visible name - `[SKU_AND_VARIANT]`: exact SKU, size, color, quantity, and sold configuration - `[FIXED_FACTS]`: inspectable silhouette, materials, closure, label, and visible text - `[ENVIRONMENT]`: the single permitted scene change - `[LIGHT]`: source, direction, softness, and expected shadow - `[COMPOSITION]`: aspect ratio, product location, scale, and empty space - `[PROHIBITED]`: claims, ingredients, props, extra products, people, invented text, and other risks ## 1. Clean catalog secondary Use the supplied approved product photo as immutable product truth. Create one square ecommerce catalog-secondary photograph. Keep exactly one `[PRODUCT_NAME]` `[SKU_AND_VARIANT]` upright, centered, fully visible, and front-facing. Preserve `[FIXED_FACTS]`. Change only the environment to a seamless warm off-white studio surface with one large soft light from camera-left, controlled highlights, and a short natural contact shadow to camera-right. No `[PROHIBITED]`. Return a review candidate, not product authority. ## 2. White-background listing candidate Use the supplied approved product photo as immutable product truth. Create one square listing candidate on a uniform near-white background. Keep exactly one `[PRODUCT_NAME]` `[SKU_AND_VARIANT]`, centered with generous margins and no crop. Preserve `[FIXED_FACTS]`; do not redraw, clean up, translate, or complete hidden text. Use a subtle physically plausible contact shadow only. No prop, reflection, gradient, person, extra unit, package, badge, claim, price, watermark, or new text. Return a candidate for channel-specific review. ## 3. Detail crop Use the approved source as immutable product truth. Create one square detail image focused on `[APPROVED_DETAIL]` while retaining enough surrounding product geometry to identify `[SKU_AND_VARIANT]`. Preserve exact material boundaries, color, hardware, seams, and visible label fragments. Change only camera crop and soft camera-left light. Do not invent the unseen reverse, interior, ingredient, texture, feature, logo, or text. Return a review candidate. ## 4. Material proof Use the approved product source as immutable product truth. Create one square close product photograph that makes `[APPROVED_MATERIAL]` inspectable without changing it. Preserve `[FIXED_FACTS]`. Use raking side light from camera-left and a neutral background so real texture, transparency, reflectivity, or grain remains readable. No smoothing, new embossing, wetness, sparkle, ingredient, extra prop, claim, or generated copy. Return a review candidate. ## 5. Quiet bathroom lifestyle Use the supplied approved product photo as immutable product truth. Create one 4:5 ecommerce secondary lifestyle photograph. Keep exactly one `[PRODUCT_NAME]` `[SKU_AND_VARIANT]` upright, fully visible, front-facing, and large enough to inspect. Preserve `[FIXED_FACTS]`. Change only the environment to a quiet pale-limestone bathroom shelf with soft morning window light from camera-left and one natural contact shadow. No person, hand, skin, ingredient, flower, towel, mirror reflection, extra product, package, splash, claim, badge, watermark, or new text. Return a review candidate, not product authority. ## 6. Kitchen-counter context Use the approved source as immutable product truth. Place exactly one `[PRODUCT_NAME]` `[SKU_AND_VARIANT]` on a clean pale-stone kitchen counter in a restrained daylight scene. Preserve `[FIXED_FACTS]`. Keep the product front-facing, unobstructed, and large enough for label inspection. Permit only one soft out-of-focus contextual surface in the far background. No food, ingredient, utensil, hand, use demonstration, extra unit, claim, badge, price, watermark, or new text. Return a secondary candidate for review. ## 7. Desk or workspace context Use the approved source as immutable product truth. Create one 4:5 secondary lifestyle photograph with exactly one `[PRODUCT_NAME]` `[SKU_AND_VARIANT]` on a clean warm-gray desk. Preserve `[FIXED_FACTS]`. Use soft window light and a simple contact shadow. Keep any contextual object distant, generic, and out of focus; it must not touch or imply a product function. No person, extra product, device UI, claim, logo, generated copy, badge, or watermark. Return a review candidate. ## 8. Seasonal context without claims Use the approved source as immutable product truth. Create one `[ASPECT_RATIO]` secondary photograph for `[SEASON_OR_OCCASION]`. Preserve `[FIXED_FACTS]` and keep exactly one `[PRODUCT_NAME]` fully inspectable. Express the season only through permitted light, surface, and color palette: `[ENVIRONMENT]`. Do not add ingredients, gifts, cultural symbols, snow, water, plants, people, or efficacy implications unless each item is separately approved. No generated text. Return a review candidate. ## 9. Paid-social negative-space visual Use the supplied approved product photo as immutable product truth. Create one 4:5 paid-social ecommerce photograph. Place exactly one `[PRODUCT_NAME]` `[SKU_AND_VARIANT]` in the lower-left third, upright, fully visible, front-facing, and large enough to inspect. Preserve `[FIXED_FACTS]`. Change only the environment to `[ENVIRONMENT]` with `[LIGHT]`. Reserve the upper-right 40 percent as quiet empty negative space for deterministic copy added later. No generated copy, person, hand, ingredient, prop, extra product, package, splash, claim, price, badge, CTA, watermark, or new text. Return a review candidate, not a publish-ready ad. ## 10. Email hero with safe crop Use the approved source as immutable product truth. Create one wide 16:9 email-hero candidate. Keep exactly one `[PRODUCT_NAME]` `[SKU_AND_VARIANT]` in the right third with the full sold product visible and at least 10 percent safe margin. Preserve `[FIXED_FACTS]`. Use `[ENVIRONMENT]` and `[LIGHT]`; keep the left half quiet for deterministic headline and CTA added after approval. No model-generated copy, offer, price, claim, person, prop touching the product, extra unit, or watermark. Return a review candidate. ## 11. Collection-card crop Use the approved source as immutable product truth. Create one square collection-card candidate with exactly one `[PRODUCT_NAME]` `[SKU_AND_VARIANT]`. Preserve `[FIXED_FACTS]`. Center the product inside a safe 70 percent box so responsive crops cannot remove the closure, base, or label. Use a flat `[APPROVED_BRAND_COLOR]` field and a short contact shadow. No gradient text, icon, badge, ingredient, prop, extra unit, claim, price, or watermark. Return a review candidate. ## 12. One-variable scene test Use the same approved source, model, seed policy, aspect ratio, product scale, camera position, light direction, and negative constraints as `[CONTROL_ID]`. Change only `[ONE_SCENE_VARIABLE]` from `[CONTROL_VALUE]` to `[TEST_VALUE]`. Preserve `[FIXED_FACTS]`. Generate one candidate. No other composition, product, copy, prop, color, or lighting change. Label the output `[TEST_ID]` in the file record, not inside the image. ## Acceptance gate 1. **Product:** exact SKU, variant, quantity, shape, proportions, materials, closure, label, and visible text. 2. **Claims:** no invented ingredient, feature, result, certification, popularity, price, offer, or testimonial. 3. **Rights:** approved source and permitted people, props, locations, marks, and downstream use. 4. **Technical:** required aspect ratio, resolution, crop safety, color treatment, and no accidental text. 5. **Destination:** the image matches the exact product and configuration available at the linked destination. Use `REJECTED`, `SECONDARY_REVIEW`, or `APPROVED_FOR_NAMED_PLACEMENT`. Never let visual polish override a failed product-truth gate.