Mar 2 • Support
The 3 prompting mistakes that make AI product photos look fake
After processing thousands of product images through our pipeline, the same 3 mistakes keep coming up. Fixing these alone makes results look 10x more professional.
MISTAKE 1: Describing the product instead of the scene. "White sneaker on white background" gives you a floating shoe in a void. Instead: "White sneaker on a polished concrete surface, soft directional light from the left, subtle shadow." The AI needs CONTEXT, not just the object.
MISTAKE 2: Forgetting lighting direction. Real photographers obsess over where the light comes from. AI doesn't care unless you tell it. Adding "soft key light from upper left, fill light from right" to any prompt immediately kills the flat, fake look.
MISTAKE 3: Over-prompting. The more adjectives you stack ("stunning beautiful amazing professional"), the worse it gets. AI treats each word as a separate instruction and tries to satisfy all of them. Result: generic, over-processed mush. Better: 5-8 specific, concrete words beat 20 vague ones every time.
Which of these 3 do you think you fall into most? Or is there a 4th mistake I'm missing?
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The 3 prompting mistakes that make AI product photos look fake
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