Verified against Nano Banana / Gemini 3.1 Flash Image · 2026-07-29
Re-theme a product photo for a new season without touching the product
Swaps a product photo's background, props, and color grade to match a target season or holiday while keeping the product itself locked pixel-for-pixel — built for sellers who need a whole seasonal campaign's worth of variants from one hero shot.
The prompt
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You are re-theming an existing product photo for a new seasonal campaign. The product must remain completely unedited — only the background, supporting props, and ambient color grade change. BASE PRODUCT PHOTO a hand-poured soy candle in a clear glass jar with a kraft-paper label, currently shot against a plain white background. CURRENT BACKGROUND plain white studio background, no props. This is being replaced entirely for the new seasonal version. PRODUCT LOCK the jar's exact shape, the label's exact text and kraft-paper color, and the candle wax's cream color must not shift at all. The product's exact shape, color, texture, label text, and the specific angle it's photographed from must not change in any way between the original and the re-themed version — if you place the product in front of a warmer or cooler-toned background, do not let that background color bleed into or shift the product's own true color; light the product as if it were physically present in the new setting, but keep its actual pigment and material reading identical to the original photo. TARGET SEASON OR OCCASION autumn/Thanksgiving. PROP ADDITIONS a few scattered dried maple leaves and a small stack of cinnamon sticks, arranged loosely nearby, not touching the jar. Keep any added props secondary to the product — supporting the seasonal theme without competing with or partially obscuring the product itself, and positioned so they clearly read as separate objects near the product rather than touching or overlapping it in a way that could be confused for part of the product. LIGHTING AND COLOR GRADE Match the new background and props to a lighting mood appropriate for the season — warmer, cozier tones for a winter-holiday theme, brighter and cooler tones for a summer theme, for instance — while keeping the product itself lit clearly enough that its true color and texture remain fully legible and undistorted by the seasonal color grade. CONSISTENCY ACROSS A CAMPAIGN If this re-theming is one of several seasonal variants planned from the same base photo, keep the product's exact framing, crop, and angle identical across all of them — only the environment around it should change from version to version, so the set reads as one consistent product photographed in different settings, not several different photoshoots of what happens to be a similar-looking product. OUTPUT One re-themed image with the product locked exactly as it was in the original photo and the new seasonal environment built around it convincingly.
Customize
Optional — swap in your own details for the highlighted parts above.
Why this works
The explicit warning against letting a new background's color temperature bleed into the product's own reading addresses a real and easy-to-miss rendering behavior: a model asked to place a product into a warmly-lit autumn scene will often, as a side effect of rendering a coherent, unified color grade for the whole image, subtly shift the product's own true color warmer too — which is exactly backwards for a seasonal-variant campaign, where the entire point is that the same product looks identical across every seasonal version and only its surroundings change, so a customer comparing the summer and winter versions of a listing shouldn't perceive a color-corrected product, they should perceive the same product in two different rooms. Second, the cross-campaign consistency instruction — locking framing, crop, and angle identical across every seasonal variant generated from the same base photo — matters because these variants are typically going to appear together across a season's worth of marketing, and even a small drift in crop or angle between the autumn and winter versions of the same product reads as inconsistent brand execution the moment two versions are placed side by side in an ad set or an email campaign, which undercuts the professional, cohesive look a seasonal campaign is supposed to project. Third, keeping added props explicitly secondary and non-overlapping with the product protects against a specific listing-accuracy risk that echoes the marketplace and food-photography cases: a prop that visually overlaps or partially obscures the product risks a customer misreading what's actually included in the purchase, so treating "props stay clearly separate from the product" as a hard compositional rule rather than a loose styling preference is what keeps a seasonal creative choice from accidentally becoming a customer-service problem.
Verified against
Nano Banana / Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Gemini 3.1 Flash Image · 2026-07-29
Changelog
- 2026-07-29 — Initial publish, verified against Nano Banana (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) on an autumn-themed candle re-theme.
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