The Best Nano Banana Pro Prompts for Product and E-commerce Photography

Published: July 25, 2026

Most small sellers photograph their products on a kitchen table and then spend the evening trying to make the result pass for a catalog image. Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) does that second step from a written description and a reference photo: a white-background packshot, the same product sitting in a lifestyle scene, an overhead flat lay of the whole kit.

This post is the e-commerce half of our general Nano Banana Pro prompt guide. Prompts are grouped by shot type, each with the aspect ratio and quality to run it at, followed by the failure modes that catch sellers out. Copy one, swap in your product, and read the mistakes section before anything goes live.

What a product photography prompt has to specify

A product prompt that works names five things: the product and its material, the surface and background, the shape and direction of the light, the camera angle and framing, and whatever must stay untouched from your reference photo. Skip the material and you get a generic render; skip the preserve clause and you get a product that is almost yours.

Use that order as a skeleton and fill in the brackets.

Settings: 1:1 · 4K · attach your product photo as reference

1[Product], [material and finish], photographed on [surface or background].
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3Lighting: [key light shape and direction], [fill], [how the shadow falls].
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5Camera: [angle], [framing and crop], [depth of field].
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7Preserve from the attached image: [label, logo, color, proportions].
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9Style: [commercial e-commerce / lifestyle editorial / overhead flat lay].

Nano Banana Pro reads photography vocabulary, so use it: softbox, seamless backdrop, contact shadow, three-quarter angle, specular highlight. Long prompts are not penalized, and every detail you leave out is a detail the model decides for you.

White-background packshots for marketplace listings

Ask explicitly for a pure white seamless background, a soft contact shadow under the product, and the product filling most of the frame. Run them at 1:1 in 4K — square survives listing zoom, and the extra resolution shows material texture. Image requirements differ between marketplaces and change over time, so check your own channel's current spec before publishing; treat these as a starting point rather than a compliance checklist.

Clean packshot from a phone photo

Settings: 1:1 · 4K · attach your product photo as reference

1Isolate the product from the attached photograph and rebuild it as a studio packshot. Remove hands, table clutter, and any background from the original.
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3Presentation: The product sits on an infinite pure white surface (digital cyclorama), centered, occupying about 85% of the frame height with even margins.
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5Lighting: Two large softboxes at 45 degrees on either side, plus a soft top light. Wrap-around illumination that reveals material and texture without hard specular blowouts. A subtle contact shadow directly under the base, no cast shadow across the background.
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7Preserve exactly: the product's shape, proportions, color, surface finish, and every graphic element on the label — text, logo, and layout unchanged.
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9Post-processing: neutral white balance, corrected lens distortion, sharp edges without halos.

Three-quarter angle with contact shadow

Settings: 1:1 or 4:5 · 4K · attach your product photo as reference

1Studio product photograph of the item in the attached image, rotated to a three-quarter view so the front face and one side are both visible.
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3Surface: seamless white sweep, no visible horizon line.
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5Lighting: soft key light from the upper left, white bounce card on the right to open the shadow side, thin rim highlight along the right edge to separate the product from the background. Grounded contact shadow, slightly diffused.
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7Camera: 100mm macro look, eye level with the top third of the product, shallow but controlled depth of field so the whole product stays sharp.
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9Preserve exactly: label typography, brand mark, cap and closure details, and material color from the reference.

Apparel on a ghost mannequin

Settings: 4:5 · 4K · attach a flat photo of the garment as reference

1Photograph the garment from the attached image as a ghost mannequin shot: the piece holds a filled, worn shape with no visible model or mannequin inside.
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3Shape: natural shoulder line, sleeves falling with the weight of the fabric, collar standing as it would on a body, a hint of the inner back neck visible through the opening.
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5Fabric behavior: realistic drape and folds for the material, visible weave texture, no plastic sheen.
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7Background: pure white seamless, soft contact shadow beneath the hem.
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9Preserve exactly: color, pattern placement, stitching, buttons, and any printed or embroidered logo from the reference image.

Lifestyle scenes that show the product in use

Give the model a room, a time of day, and a human action, then lock the product down so it cannot drift. The scene gives buyers the context; the preserve clause is what keeps your actual product intact. Shoot vertical for social: 4:5 for feed posts, 9:16 for Stories, and 2K is enough resolution for either.

Kitchen counter, morning light

Settings: 4:5 · 2K · attach your product photo as reference

1Place the product from the attached image on a light oak kitchen counter, styled as a real breakfast scene: a linen cloth folded to one side, a ceramic mug, a few coffee beans scattered near the base.
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3Light: window light entering from the left, soft and directional, warm at around 5000K, with long gentle shadows falling to the right.
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5Camera: 35mm look, slightly above counter height, product in the left third, background falling out of focus toward the right.
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7Preserve exactly: the product's proportions, color, finish, and label artwork from the reference.
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9Mood: unstyled and domestic rather than showroom-perfect. Editorial lifestyle photography.

In hand, for scale

Settings: 4:5 · 2K · attach your product photo as reference

1A hand holds the product from the attached image at chest height, showing its real size against the fingers.
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3Hand: adult hand, natural skin texture, short unpolished nails, relaxed grip that does not cover the front label.
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5Setting: softly blurred neutral interior, mid-tone gray-green wall, daylight from a large window on the right.
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7Camera: 50mm look, waist-up framing, focus on the product with the background dissolving behind it.
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9Preserve exactly: the product's dimensions relative to the hand, its color, and every element of its label.

Outdoors, golden hour

Settings: 9:16 · 2K · attach your product photo as reference

1The product from the attached image sits on a weathered wooden picnic table outdoors, late afternoon.
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3Light: low golden-hour sun from behind and to the left, creating a warm rim light along the product's top edge and a long shadow stretching toward the camera. Slight atmospheric haze.
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5Environment: open field softly out of focus, warm grasses, a tree line on the horizon.
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7Camera: 85mm look, low angle just above the tabletop, empty sky in the upper third for overlay text.
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9Preserve exactly: the product's shape, finish, color, and label content from the reference.

Flat lays for accessories, cosmetics and kits

A flat lay is shot straight down, so say it outright: camera directly overhead, parallel to the surface. Then name the surface, the props, and the empty space you want left for text. Use 1:1 for a grid post and 4:5 for feed; 4K pays off when the same flat lay doubles as a banner or a print insert.

Minimal flat lay on a neutral surface

Settings: 1:1 · 4K · attach your product photo as reference

1Overhead flat lay of the product from the attached image, camera pointing straight down and parallel to the surface.
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3Surface: warm off-white plaster with a fine matte texture, no visible seams.
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5Composition: the product slightly off-center, three small props arranged loosely around it — a folded linen swatch, a dried eucalyptus sprig, a small brass tray. Generous negative space in the upper right.
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7Light: single large diffused source from the upper left, soft shadows falling to the lower right, no double shadows.
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9Preserve exactly: the product's color, proportions, and label from the reference image.
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11Style: quiet, minimal, editorial product styling.

Kit or bundle flat lay with copy space

Settings: 4:5 · 4K · attach photos of each item as references

1Overhead flat lay showing every item from the attached images arranged as a complete kit, camera directly above and parallel to the surface.
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3Arrangement: the largest item anchoring the lower half, smaller pieces fanned above it in a loose grid, consistent spacing, all items aligned to the same vertical axis. Nothing overlapping.
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5Surface: deep charcoal slate with a subtle stone grain.
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7Light: broad diffused light from directly above with a slight bias to the left, gentle contact shadows under each item.
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9Reserve the top third of the frame as empty surface for overlay text.
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11Preserve exactly: each item's color, scale relative to the others, and printed detail from its reference image.

Keeping one product consistent across a whole catalog

Consistency is a copy-paste discipline. Write one paragraph that describes your product precisely — material, color, proportions, where the logo sits, what the closure looks like — and paste that same paragraph into every prompt, changing only the scene. As of July 25, 2026 you can attach up to four reference images to a single run on ilisai — enough for the front, the back, and the one detail the model keeps getting wrong.

The product block you reuse

Write this once, keep it in a note, paste it into everything.

1PRODUCT (do not alter): A 250ml amber glass bottle with a matte black aluminium screw cap. Body height 14cm, diameter 5cm. Front label is uncoated cream paper, 6cm tall, with the wordmark 'ALDEA' in small-caps serif centered at the top, a thin horizontal rule beneath it, and three lines of body text below. Glass is semi-transparent, showing a pale amber liquid at 90% fill. No other markings anywhere on the bottle.

Same product, new scene

Settings: keep one ratio and quality across the whole set · attach the same reference images every time

1[Paste the PRODUCT block here.]
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3SCENE: The bottle stands on a wet slate bathroom shelf, steam softening the air behind it, a folded white towel to the right.
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5Light: cool diffused light from a frosted window on the left, soft shadows to the right.
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7Camera: 85mm look, eye level with the label, product in the center third.
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9Render photorealistically. The product must be identical to the description above and to the attached reference images in every generation of this set.

Lock the aspect ratio and quality for the whole catalog before you start. Mixed ratios crop differently in listing grids, and a set generated half at 2K and half at 4K shows the difference the moment a buyer zooms.

Five Nano Banana prompting tips for digital product sellers

When what you sell has no physical form — an ebook, a course, a template pack, a set of presets — the prompt has to invent a believable object to photograph: a paperback on a desk, a laptop showing your cover, a tablet held in someone's hands. Five habits make those mockups usable.

1. Describe the device as carefully as the product. "A 13-inch laptop, open at 110 degrees, matte dark gray body, thin bezels" beats "a laptop". The device is most of the image.
2. Attach your real artwork as a reference. Describing a cover in words gets you an invented cover. Attaching the file and writing "display the attached artwork on the screen, unaltered" gets you yours.
3. Read the screen content letter by letter. Rendered text is the weakest point of any generated mockup. Zoom to full size and check the title, the subtitle, and your name before the image reaches a sales page.
4. Draft cheap, finish expensive. Iterate on composition with the small models, then rerun the keeper on Nano Banana Pro at 4K. On ilisai as of July 25, 2026 that is 8 credits for a Nano Banana 2 Lite draft against 80 for the 4K Nano Banana Pro render, funded from wallet credits.
5. Ask for empty space where your headline goes. A mockup with the product dead center leaves nowhere for the sales copy. Name the region you want kept clear.

Digital product mockup

Settings: 4:5 · 4K · attach your cover artwork as reference

1A 13-inch laptop with a matte dark gray body sits open at 110 degrees on a walnut desk, angled slightly to the left. Its screen displays the attached artwork, filling the display edge to edge, unaltered in color, typography, and layout.
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3Desk styling: a closed notebook, a ceramic cup, a pair of reading glasses, all pushed toward the right edge.
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5Light: soft window light from the upper left, a faint reflection across the screen glass that never obscures the artwork.
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7Camera: 50mm look, slightly above screen height, laptop occupying the lower two thirds.
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9Keep the upper third of the frame as clean empty wall for headline text.
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11Photorealistic, editorial product photography.

Common mistakes sellers make with AI product photos

The mistakes that cost a listing are small and repeatable: a wordmark that came back subtly wrong, a shadow falling the wrong way, a background that reads off-white next to a competitor's pure white. Compare every generated image against the real product before it goes live.

• Trusting the label. A render built from a reference photo drifts on fine detail. Small type on packaging, the serif in a wordmark, an ingredient list, a certification badge — any of these can come back plausible and wrong. Check them at full size, and when the text must be exact, composite the real label over the render instead of asking the model to redraw it.
• Letting the model reinvent the color. "Blue" is a range. Name the finish and the reference — "matte cobalt, as in the attached image, not glossy" — or your catalog drifts a shade per generation.
• Accepting off-white backgrounds. Ask for pure white explicitly and inspect the corners of the frame. A near-white background looks fine alone and looks dirty in a search grid.
• Mixing light directions across a set. One product lit from the left and the next lit from the right reads as two different shops. Fix the key light direction in your reusable product block.
• Overpolishing. Removing every pore, scratch, and weave leaves a product that looks rendered. Ask for authentic material texture and keep it.
• Generating at the wrong ratio and cropping afterwards. Cropping a 16:9 render down to 1:1 throws away resolution and usually the composition too. Pick the ratio for the destination first.
• Publishing a scene the product cannot deliver. A lifestyle image implying a size, a set, or an accessory that is not in the box invites returns, whatever generated it.

Where to run these prompts

Every prompt on this page runs in the browser without an API key: ilisai's image generator serves Nano Banana Pro (gemini-3-pro-image) at 1K, 2K and 4K, alongside Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana 2 Lite. As of July 25, 2026 the free account includes 400 credits per calendar month and asks for no card, and a Nano Banana Pro image costs 30 credits at 1K, 45 at 2K and 80 at 4K, where 1 credit equals €0.01. On the free plan, drafting and iterating at lower quality fits inside those included credits, while final Nano Banana Pro renders at 2K and 4K draw on wallet credits you top up as you go.

Ten aspect ratios are available on all three models, including the 1:1, 4:5 and 9:16 this guide leans on. Re-running a packshot prompt with one variable changed — the light direction, the crop, the surface — is the fastest way to land the frame you want. The full walkthrough — signing up, choosing model and quality, per-image pricing — is in where to run Nano Banana Pro prompts for free.

Frequently asked questions

Can these prompts replace a product photo shoot?

For catalog packshots and lifestyle context, they often can. For anything where the purchase depends on exact detail — a fabric weave, a printed ingredient list, a hallmark on jewelry — photograph the real item. Generated images are a fast way to fill a listing set, not a substitute for evidence the buyer is entitled to.

Will Nano Banana Pro reproduce my logo and label exactly?

Not reliably. Overall shape and color usually survive, while small type and fine logo detail can drift between generations. Inspect every image at full size before publishing, and composite the real label onto the render when the text has to be exact.

Which aspect ratio and quality should I use for e-commerce?

1:1 at 4K for marketplace listings, since square images hold up under product zoom. 4:5 for feed posts and 9:16 for Stories, both fine at 2K. Keep whichever you choose consistent across the full set.

How many reference images can I attach to one generation?

Up to four per run on ilisai, as of July 25, 2026. That is enough for a front view, a back view, a detail shot, and a color reference in the same prompt.

Do these prompts have to be written in English?

No. Nano Banana Pro handles Spanish, French and other languages with comparable results. Specificity matters far more than the language you write in.