Prompts for Product Mockups - Nano Banana 2

The habit worth building is to describe the shoot rather than the product. A mockup prompt reads more like a brief to a photographer than a description of a thing: what the object is, what it sits on, where the light comes from, how far away the camera is, and what the background is doing. Get those five right and the object mostly takes care of itself.

Believability lives in material behaviour. Matte cardboard, glossy ceramic, brushed aluminium, frosted glass, uncoated paper stock — each reflects light in a way people recognise without being able to name it, and getting it wrong is what makes an image read as fake even when the geometry is perfect. Say the material explicitly, and say its finish.

It also helps to keep the artwork surface as close to flat-on as the shot allows. A steeply angled label is a nightmare to map your design onto later, whereas a mild three-quarter view distorts predictably. Say “front-facing”, “slight angle”, “label fully visible and undistorted” — the framing you ask for is the framing you will have to work with in a design tool.

Props, plants, hands, scattered coffee beans and dramatic colour gradients all pull attention away from the thing you are supposedly selling, and they multiply the number of ways the image can go wrong. A seamless backdrop, a plain surface and a single soft shadow is the mockup that gets used.