Verified against Nano Banana / Gemini 3.1 Flash Image · 2026-07-27
Turn a flat label design into a photorealistic packaging mockup
Wraps a flat, uploaded label or artwork file around a specific packaging shape — box, bottle, pouch, or jar — with correct material finish and light wrap distortion, for a design that hasn't gone to physical print yet.
The prompt
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You are rendering a photorealistic packaging mockup from a flat label or artwork design. The uploaded artwork needs to wrap correctly onto the packaging's actual 3D shape, not sit as a flat sticker on top of it. LABEL OR ARTWORK a minimalist label with a hand-drawn botanical illustration, deep green background, cream serif logotype at the top, uploaded as a flat design file. PACKAGING SHAPE a 500ml cylindrical glass bottle with a cork stopper. Render the artwork wrapped realistically onto this exact shape — if the packaging is cylindrical, like a bottle or a can, the artwork's edges should show correct perspective curvature as they wrap around the visible surface, with any text or logo that crosses the wrap line curving naturally rather than staying flat. MATERIAL AND FINISH clear glass bottle, matte-finish paper label, natural cork stopper. The packaging material's real surface properties should show through: a glass bottle should show genuine transparency and refraction where the liquid inside would be visible through it, a matte cardboard box should absorb light without a glossy sheen, a glossy-laminated pouch should show a soft, realistic specular highlight where the light source catches its curved surface. SETTING standing on a pale wood shelf, softly blurred kitchen background behind it. LIGHTING soft directional daylight from one side, creating a gentle highlight along the bottle's curved edge. Let the lighting reveal the packaging's actual physical form — a highlight running down the curved side of a bottle, a soft shadow where a box's edge meets the surface it's sitting on — since this dimensional lighting is what separates a "photograph of a real object" mockup from a flat design pasted onto a 3D template. LABEL ACCURACY Every word, logo element, and color from the uploaded artwork must render exactly as designed — this mockup exists to show a client or a print vendor precisely what the finished packaging will say and look like, so treat any text or logo on the label as fixed content to reproduce faithfully, not as a placeholder to reinterpret or simplify. REALISM DETAILS Where relevant to the packaging type, include small real-world details that a genuine product photo would have: a subtle fingerprint-free but not sterile-looking surface, a visible cap or closure mechanism appropriate to the packaging type, and correct proportions between label size and container size — a label that would be physically too large or too small to wrap around the stated container should be flagged rather than rendered at an impossible scale. OUTPUT One photorealistic packaging mockup, artwork faithfully and dimensionally wrapped onto the specified shape, suitable for client approval or a pre-print visual proof.
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Why this works
The instruction to render text and logo elements curving naturally as they cross a wrap line targets a specific geometric detail that flat-mockup generators frequently get wrong: a label design is created flat, but a cylindrical bottle or can genuinely distorts anything printed on it in perspective as the surface curves away from the viewer, and a mockup that keeps the artwork perfectly flat and undistorted across a visibly curved surface looks like a digital overlay rather than a photograph of a real wrapped label, which is exactly the difference between a mockup a client trusts as representative and one they discount as "just a preview." Second, requiring the material's real optical properties — glass transparency and refraction, cardboard's light-absorbing matte finish, a laminated pouch's specular highlight — matters because these three materials genuinely behave differently under the same light, and a generic, material-agnostic render defaults to a flat, plastic-looking sheen regardless of what the packaging is actually made of, which undersells exactly the tactile, premium quality a lot of packaging design is trying to communicate in the first place. Third, treating the label's actual text and logo content as fixed and requiring faithful reproduction rather than creative reinterpretation is the detail that makes this genuinely useful for a real pre-print workflow rather than just a pretty render: a packaging mockup's entire business purpose is often to get sign-off from a client or a print vendor on exactly what the finished product will say and look like, and a model that subtly re-kerns text, shifts a logo's proportions, or simplifies a detail during the 3D-wrap process undermines that purpose by presenting an approval-ready image that doesn't actually match the file that will go to print.
Verified against
Nano Banana / Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Gemini 3.1 Flash Image · 2026-07-27
Changelog
- 2026-07-27 — Initial publish, verified against Nano Banana (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) on a cylindrical glass-bottle label mockup.
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