# How to: Your product in a new setting

> Take a photo you already have and put the product on a café table, a desk or a shelf, with the product unchanged.

## When to use it

You have a photo of the product, from a designer, a phone or an earlier render, and you need it somewhere else: on a
café table for the landing page, on a desk for an ad, in a kitchen for a blog header. Pillow can cut it out and paste
it on a painted table, but the light won't match and it looks pasted. In our side-by-side test the café edit was the
best single result across three runs, and a blind judge preferred it over the code version ([how we tested](https://vincevangen.com/compare#our-test)).

## What to ask your agent

> Put our coffee bag photo (assets/bag.png) on a sunny café table by a window. Keep the bag, the cup and the beans
> exactly as they are.

## What your agent sends

The hosted server can't read your disk, so a local file goes up first. The agent calls
[`vvgen_create_upload`](https://vincevangen.com/docs/tools.md#vvgen_create_upload) with the file name, runs the single-use upload command it gets
back, and receives an asset id. In the Claude app, attach the photo: Claude uploads it itself once you allow
`api.vincevangen.com` ([how](https://vincevangen.com/docs/quickstart/claude.md#your-own-photos)), otherwise it gives you the link to open, pick
the photo, and gets the id when the upload finishes. A public `https://` URL or the id of an earlier result works directly.

Then [`vvgen_edit_image`](https://vincevangen.com/docs/tools.md#vvgen_edit_image). The call from our test, word for word:

```json
{
  "images": ["a_eb7d0b1fef"],
  "prompt": "Place the coffee bag, the teal cup and the beans on a sunny wooden café table by a window, with warm morning sunlight and a softly blurred café interior behind; keep the bag, label band, cup and beans exactly the same in shape, colour and position, keep everything else exactly the same.",
  "seed": 11
}
```

Lead with the change, then say what must stay: "keep everything else exactly the same". The first image is the canvas
and keeps its size. Up to four images can go in one edit; the others are sources the prompt names as "image 2" and
"image 3", for example a logo to put on the bag.

## What comes back

The edited file, usually a JPEG (add `"post": ["png"]` for a PNG), a preview, the credits and the model's licence. Its
record lists the photo it was made from by id and SHA-256. This edit was made by the open-source engine's local
default edit model at the time (FLUX.2 [dev]); the hosted Edit tier runs FLUX.2 [pro].

Ask your agent to compare the preview with the original: label shape, colours, the number of beans. If something
drifted, a second edit that names only that thing works better than a longer first prompt.

Each extra image in the same edit adds to the price; the quote your agent gets before the call shows the total.

## In Cursor and Codex

Same tools: see the [Cursor](https://vincevangen.com/docs/quickstart/cursor.md) and [Codex](https://vincevangen.com/docs/quickstart/codex.md) quickstarts. In Codex,
attaching the photo to the chat is not enough for an MCP tool: the agent still uploads it with `vvgen_create_upload`.

## Results

- Before: the product shot from our test (see Product shots). Image: https://vincevangen.com/how-to/product-shot.webp (Before: a coffee bag and a teal cup on a plain grey studio sweep)
- After: the edit below, seed 11, 12 October 2026. Same bag, label band, cup and beans, new table and light. Image: https://vincevangen.com/how-to/photo-edit-after.webp (After: the same coffee bag, cup and beans on a sunlit wooden café table by a window)

## Cost

- One edit with your photo: 9 credits ($0.09)