Product shots

When to use it

A product shown as a studio photograph: a coffee bag, a bottle, a pair of headphones. Your agent can draw a packaging mockup in code, but it won't read as a photo. In our side-by-side test of 14 asset jobs, the product photo was one of the jobs vincevangen won outright, and a blind judge agreed (how we tested).

Leave the label blank. Image models paint fake lettering on packaging, and your real artwork goes on afterwards.

What to ask your agent

Make a product shot for the shop page: our coffee bag, matte espresso brown with a plain crema label band, standing next to a teal cup of black coffee, a few beans in front. Then cut it out for the shop page.

What your agent sends

Claude Code calls vvgen_generate_asset with the product-shot preset. This is the call from our test, word for word:

{
  "preset": "product-shot",
  "subject": "a matte espresso-brown #3B2418 kraft coffee bag with a plain crema #E9C79A label band, standing upright, next to a deep teal #0F4C4A ceramic cup of black coffee, a few whole roasted beans in front",
  "seed": 11
}

The preset adds the studio set: a three-quarter angle on a seamless light-grey sweep, softbox light and a soft contact shadow. Pass lighting to change the light, for example "warm late-afternoon sun from the right". Name colours as hex codes in the subject when they matter.

One call, one final: a brief this complete needs no drafts. For a transparent PNG the agent then calls vvgen_remove_background on the result's id.

To see options first, say so. The agent drafts four on the cheapest tier ("model": "fast", "n": 4), looks at the contact sheet, and finishes the one you like with vvgen_generate_image and "from_draft": "<its id>": an edit of that draft on the Final tier, so the result is the same picture. The finish costs more than a plain final, so this path pays off when you would otherwise want two or more finished shots.

What comes back

The file lands in your repo (or downloads by id), with one small preview for the agent to look at, the credits the call cost, the model and its licence. The preset now delivers 1600 × 1200; the image above was made before that size fix, at the model's own 1152 × 864.

Ask your agent to look at the preview before it moves on: fake text on the label, the product's proportions, a cup handle that melts into the bag.

In Cursor and Codex

Same tools, same arguments. Add the server with the Cursor or Codex quickstart. Codex also has its own $imagegen image tool. For a one-off image that is fine, and vvgen_import brings its file in for size exports, exact text and a provenance record at no charge.

claude mcp add -s user --transport http \
  vincevangen https://api.vincevangen.com/mcp