How to make AI product photos for Shopify and Amazon

Updated 2026-10-06 · Leviosa AI

AI product photos start from one real photo. Give an image model a clean shot of your product and it can put it on a plain background for the main image, place it on a kitchen counter or a desk for lifestyle shots, and lay out an infographic around it. You don't need a studio, props or a model. What the image model can't be trusted with is the product itself. It redraws logos, shifts colors and sometimes adds a pocket that was never there, so every image gets checked against the real thing before it goes up.

What you need to start

• One clean product shot. Even light, a plain background, the whole product in frame and in focus. A recent phone is fine. Shoot near a window rather than under a yellow ceiling light, because a color you get wrong here carries into every image made from it.
• Close-ups of the details that matter. The label, the stitching, the ports, the back. A model has no way of knowing what the back of your product looks like, so it will guess.
• The facts. Dimensions, materials, color names, what's in the box. You need them for the scale and infographic images, and to check everything else.

The images a product listing needs

Most product pages use the same five kinds of image. AI helps with some far more than others.

Step by step: making AI product photos

1. Clean the source photo. Cut the product out of its background with a background-removal app or the image model itself, straighten it, and correct the white balance until the color matches the product in your hand.
2. Make the main image. Ask for the product centered on a plain white or light background with a soft, natural shadow. Compare the result with the original at full size. If anything about the product changed, go back to the cutout and add only the shadow.
3. Write scene prompts for lifestyle shots. Attach the product photo as the reference and describe who uses it, where, at what time of day, and how the picture should feel. Say in every prompt that the product must stay exactly as it is in the reference. For example:

   Use the attached mug exactly as shown, same color, shape and logo. Place it on a light oak desk next to an open notebook, morning sunlight from the left, shallow depth of field, calm and tidy.

4. Generate a few, then edit. Make three or four versions of each scene, pick the best, and fix it with small instructions like "move the mug to the left" or "warmer light" instead of generating from scratch again. An edit keeps what already worked.
5. Build the detail, scale and infographic images. Start close-ups from your real detail photos. For scale, give the model the real dimensions and check that a hand or a person next to the product looks right for them. Keep infographic text short. Image models can still misspell words and swap digits, so read every character or add the text yourself in a design tool afterwards.
6. Export for each place you sell. Your Shopify theme, Amazon and any other marketplace each ask for their own sizes and formats. Keep one high-resolution master of every image and export the versions from it.
7. Review before you upload. Go through the checks in the next section with the real product on the desk next to you.

How to keep the product accurate

The model can change everything around the product and nothing about the product itself. A photo that makes the item look different from what arrives turns into a return or a bad review, and on a marketplace it can also break the listing rules. Check each image for these:

• Shape and proportions. Handles, lids, corners and straps are where models drift.
• Color. Put the image on screen next to the product in daylight. A navy that came out black is a different product to the buyer.
• Logos and labels. Models redraw letters, so a brand name can come back slightly wrong. If it does, paste the label back from your original photo in an editor.
• Text in the image. Spelling, numbers, units. Read it twice.
• Invented features. An extra pocket, a button, a cable that doesn't ship, two items where the set has one. If a buyer could expect it from the photo, it has to be in the box.
• Scale. A bag that looks bigger in the photo than it is will come back.

Keep the reference photo attached for every generation and repeat the "keep the product unchanged" line in every prompt. Mistakes still happen, and comparing every image against that same reference is how you catch them.

Marketplace image rules: check before you upload

Each marketplace has its own image rules, and they change. Read the current ones instead of trusting a number from a blog post.

• Amazon is strict about the main image: the background, what may appear in the frame besides the product, and how much of the frame the product fills. Read the product image requirements in Seller Central's help pages for your category. The safe plan is a cleaned-up real photo as the main image and AI scenes in the other slots.
• Shopify leaves most of it to your theme, which decides how images are cropped on product and collection pages. Check the theme's documentation for its recommended size and aspect ratio, and use the same ratio for every product so collection grids line up.
• Other marketplaces such as Etsy, eBay and Walmart publish their own photo guidelines. Read those before you export, too.

Doing it with Yomates

Yomates is a free desktop app by Leviosa AI that gives online sellers a team of AI agents. Each agent works in a real browser inside the app, on your own computer, and you watch it work. The team starts with Daniel the manager, Mina the designer and Junho the content creator. If agents are new to you, AI agents for ecommerce sellers covers the idea.

• Photos with Junho. Send a product shot and a sentence about it. Product photos and edits are made with GPT Image 2 or Nano Banana Pro through Yomates and use credits, and so do video clips.
• Layouts with Mina. Product cards, banners, Instagram carousels and product pages, made from a product shot in the sizes each marketplace asks for, on a design canvas you can edit yourself.
• Through to the listing. From a product photo and a sentence, an agent can finish the listing on the marketplaces you sell on. It opens the store admin in the browser and types, clicks and uploads like a person would. Before anything is published, it stops and asks for your OK.
• It remembers. Tell it once that, say, your mugs are matte and never glossy, and it keeps that.
• One message for the whole job. Give Daniel the big job in the group chat. He briefs Mina and Junho himself and reports back in one message.

It runs on the ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini plan you already have (more on that in putting your AI plan to work on your store), on Apple Silicon Macs, Windows PCs and Debian-based Linux. Your computer has to be on while the agents work. For the rest of the store admin, see Shopify automation without apps.

The accuracy check above is still your job. The OK before publishing is the moment to do it.