# generating-product-photos

Turns product photos or URLs into commercial photography prompts. It locks product geometry and materials across studio, lifestyle, and on-model shots.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 232
- Author: SupercmoHQ
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/generating-product-photos/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/generating-product-photos

## What it does

This skill directs commercial product shoots before calling the `image_generate` tool. It examines an uploaded image or URL using `analyzing-products` and `image_analysis` to inspect surfaces, movable components, and physical handling. A single descriptive specification is then built and reused across subsequent generation calls, preventing the product from morphing between angles.

Shooting routes into ten formats, including isolated studio packshots, hero frames, or floating arrangements. When requirements are unclear, the agent bundles at most four questions in one message. If a brief provides no specific direction, it falls back to the `studio` setup with default ratios.

This skill does not produce marketing ads with headlines or promotional offers; the repository delegates promo designs to `generating-image-ads`. It also avoids building complete marketplace listing carousels and strictly requires an available `image_generate` tool.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-product-photos -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/generating-product-photos/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/generating-product-photos/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-product-photos -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/generating-product-photos/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-product-photos -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/generating-product-photos/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills generating-product-photos
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/generating-product-photos/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-product-photos -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --path skills/generating-product-photos
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/generating-product-photos/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills --skill generating-product-photos -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/SupercmoHQ/superCMO-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/generating-product-photos/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- generate studio photography prompts from an existing product image or URL
- retain exact product shapes and textures across diverse visual setups
- route shot briefs into distinct formats like flat lay, on-model, or hero framing
- clarify missing photography specs through a concise four-question intake

## Example prompts
- Create a clean studio packshot of this water bottle against a neutral backdrop.
- Place this mechanical watch into a flat-lay layout next to leather travel gear.
- Generate an on-model outdoor lifestyle shot using this jacket reference.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: generating-product-photos
description: |
  ALWAYS read this skill before generating a product photography — before writing any prompt or calling image_generate. Turns a product photo or URL into commercial photography - packshots, lifestyle and campaign frames, on-model, macro detail, flat lays, seasonal staging, infographics, concepts and floating shots. Reads the real product first and holds it identical across every frame. Triggers: "product photo", "packshot", "shoot my product", "studio shot", "lifestyle shot", "hero image", "on a model", "flat lay", "product infographic", "floating product".
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  version: "0.2.0"
  category: creative
  summary: "Directs a commercial photoshoot around your product, automatically applying the correct lighting, framing, camera angles and props to deliver studio-quality product shots across 10+ formats."
---

# Product Photography

Turn a product into commercial imagery via the `image_generate` tool.
Marketplace listing galleries are out of scope, and a finished advertisement — one built on a headline, an offer, a call to action, or a promotional before/after or comparison — belongs to `generating-image-ads`, not here. Anything whose subject isn't a product should not be created with this skill.

## Workflow

### Step 1: Read what you have

- **A product image or URL is available** → hand it to `analyzing-products`, and take four things
  back: what the product is; **how a person physically uses it** — sprayed, pumped,
  worn, etc.; which parts open or move, and in what order; and the details that have to stay identical wherever it appears. 
- **Look at the image before you describe it.** Take the product only from what the image shows —
  not the brief, not the filename, not the product name. Run `image_analysis` and ask it for
  everything this shoot needs that the product facts leave out — how the surfaces take light, and
  whatever else the frame you end up building will have to describe.
- **Product not supplied** → don't guess at the product. It becomes the first thing Step 2 asks for.

### Step 2: Interview

**Skip this entirely when the brief already makes the shot obvious** — a clear subject, a clear use,
and nothing load-bearing missing. The interview exists to close real gaps, not to confirm what you
were already told.
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