A product shot, start to finish

Most people who install Flowgen say they are making product shots. This is the smallest version that is actually useful: three nodes, one photo, about four cents.

The graph

1. Add an Image Source. Drop your product photo onto it. An Image Source left empty sends nothing, and the model will invent whatever should have been there.
2. Add an Image node. Wire the source into it. The node now has your product as a reference rather than a description of it.
3. Prompt the scene. Write where the product is, not what it is: "on wet slate, morning window light, shallow depth of field".

Describe the room, not the object

This is the part that takes longest to learn, and it is the whole trick. The model already has your product in the reference image. What it needs from you is everything around it: the surface, the light, the distance, the lens.

A prompt that re-describes the product fights the reference. "A matte black bottle on a stone surface" asks the model to invent a bottle it can already see, and you get a different bottle. "On wet slate, morning window light" asks it to build a room around yours.

If the product drifts between runs, the prompt is probably describing it. Cut every adjective about the object and keep the ones about the scene.

Four shots instead of one

Wire the same Image Source into four Image nodes with four different scene prompts, then press Run all. The product stays the same because the reference is the same; only the room changes. That is the whole reason the canvas is a graph rather than a chat box.

Keep the brand out of the prompt

Once you have a Brand Kit, the palette, the look and the mood are added to every prompt automatically. At that point you write the shot and nothing else, and the brand stays consistent without being retyped.

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