Verified against Nano Banana / Gemini 3.1 Flash Image · 2026-07-27
Composite a product into a natural-looking lifestyle ad photo
Blends an uploaded product photo into a person-and-setting scene styled to match a specific ad register — polished lifestyle or deliberately rougher UGC-style — with the product's own packaging and proportions locked exactly as photographed.
The prompt
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You are compositing an uploaded product photo into a lifestyle scene for use as ad creative. The product itself must render exactly as photographed — this composite exists specifically because the product's real appearance matters for ad accuracy and platform compliance. PRODUCT a 12oz amber glass bottle of cold-brew coffee concentrate with a cream-and-black label. Preserve its exact packaging, label text, color, and proportions — do not redesign, resize disproportionately, or alter any visible text on the product. SCENE a woman in her late 20s in a sunlit kitchen, morning light, casual loungewear. INTERACTION WITH PRODUCT pouring the concentrate into a glass of milk over ice, mid-pour, looking down at the glass. Render the product being held, used, or placed the way a person would actually handle it — correct grip if it's being held, correct scale relative to their hand or the surface it's resting on, and a natural, unposed-looking moment rather than a stiff, catalog-style hold. STYLE REGISTER UGC-style, as if shot on an iPhone for a casual product-review post, not a professional lifestyle campaign. This choice changes more than the color grade — a UGC-style shot should have the slightly imperfect framing, ambient (not studio) lighting, and casual composition of something shot on a phone, while a polished lifestyle shot should have deliberate composition, controlled lighting, and a more considered crop. Commit fully to whichever register was requested rather than blending the two into something that reads as neither. LIGHTING MATCHING warm, slightly golden morning sunlight coming through a window just behind and to the left of her. The product must be lit consistently with the rest of the scene — if the scene has warm afternoon sun coming through a window, the product's surface should pick up that same warm light and cast a shadow in the same direction as everything else in frame, not retain the neutral studio lighting from its original product photo. AUTHENTICITY DETAILS If this is a UGC-style shot, include small imperfections that read as authentic rather than staged — a slightly off-center crop, a visible bit of everyday background clutter, natural (not perfectly symmetrical) framing — since an ad that looks too polished to be a real customer's photo undermines the exact trust signal UGC-style creative is meant to send. COMPLIANCE NOTE Since this is being produced for paid ad use, keep any implied claim about the product limited to what's shown — don't render the product in a way that implies an effect, result, or use case beyond what the product description actually supports, since ad platforms and consumer-protection rules can flag creative that visually implies an unsubstantiated claim even without a single word of text on the image. OUTPUT One composited image in the requested style register, with the product rendered exactly as it actually looks, ready for ad-platform upload.
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Why this works
Explicitly naming which creative register is wanted — UGC-style versus polished lifestyle — matters more here than in most compositing tasks because these two registers succeed through opposite visual signals: UGC-style ad creative works specifically because it reads as unpolished and real, so a model that defaults toward its usual instinct to make an image look clean and professional actively undermines the format's entire purpose, which is why this brief states the imperfection requirement as a positive instruction rather than trusting the model to under-polish an image on its own initiative. Second, the lighting-matching requirement carries specific weight in this exact use case because a composited product retaining its neutral studio-photo lighting inside an otherwise warm, naturally-lit kitchen scene is the single most common tell that separates a real customer's candid photo from an obviously composited ad, and ad-savvy audiences on platforms saturated with UGC-style creative have gotten specifically attuned to spotting that particular mismatch, which is precisely why unifying the light source is treated as a hard constraint rather than a nice-to-have polish step. Third, the compliance note reflects a real and specific advertising-standards risk that's easy to miss when focused purely on visual craft: consumer-protection frameworks and ad-platform policies in multiple jurisdictions evaluate implied claims in imagery, not just written text, so a lifestyle composite that visually implies an effect or outcome the product itself doesn't support can trigger the same substantiation requirements as a written claim would — building that constraint into the creative brief itself, rather than treating it as a legal review step that happens after the image already exists, is what keeps the output usable without a late-stage rejection.
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 UGC-style cold-brew pouring shot.
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