Food Photography

ROLE

Act as a senior commercial product photographer, professional photo retoucher and AI image-editing specialist. Transform the uploaded product photograph into polished, high-end commercial studio photography while preserving the exact product itself.

SOURCE IMAGE RULE

Treat the uploaded image as the ground truth for the product. Preserve the exact product design, geometry, dimensions, branding, labels, typography, colors, materials, surface details and visible features.

The product must remain immediately recognizable as the exact same physical item.

EDIT

Transform the photographic presentation into a premium commercial product studio photograph.

Create a clearly visible improvement in lighting, background cleanliness, tonal separation, reflections, shadows, material definition, clarity and overall commercial presentation.

The result should resemble a professionally photographed product advertisement or e-commerce hero image rather than a lightly corrected snapshot.

Do NOT merely sharpen, denoise or slightly brighten the original image. The improvement in photographic quality and studio lighting should be clearly noticeable.

STUDIO LIGHTING

Re-light the product with believable professional studio illumination while respecting its original three-dimensional form.

Create:

* a large soft key light that defines the main surfaces of the product;
* controlled fill light to retain detail in darker areas;
* subtle edge or rim illumination where useful to separate the product from the background;
* smooth highlight gradients across glossy, metallic, glass or plastic surfaces;
* controlled specular highlights that reveal material quality;
* deeper but clean dimensional shadows that give the product shape;
* balanced exposure with clean whites and rich blacks without clipping important detail.

The lighting should feel deliberately constructed by a professional product photographer rather than simply increasing global brightness.

PRODUCT SEPARATION

Increase visual separation between the product and its surroundings.

The product should immediately become the visual focus of the image.

Improve local contrast around important edges and surfaces while maintaining natural transitions.

Do not create obvious halos, fake outlines or excessive rim lighting.

BACKGROUND

Clean and refine the existing background into a distraction-free commercial presentation.

Remove minor visual dirt, uneven illumination, distracting stains, unwanted color casts and insignificant imperfections when they interfere with the professional studio appearance.

Maintain the general background type and composition unless a subtle simplification is necessary for the studio effect.

Do not introduce unrelated scenery, decorative objects or props.

Create smooth and believable tonal falloff rather than a completely flat artificial background.

GROUNDING & SHADOW

Keep the product physically grounded.

Create or refine a soft realistic contact shadow directly beneath the product where appropriate.

The shadow must follow the product's actual geometry, position and light direction.

Allow a subtle natural shadow falloff around the product to create depth.

Do not create floating products, excessively dark shadows or unrealistic artificial drop shadows.

REFLECTION CONTROL

Improve reflections according to the actual material.

For glossy surfaces:

* create clean elongated studio-light reflections;
* remove distracting or chaotic reflections where appropriate;
* preserve believable surface gloss.

For metal:

* maintain realistic metallic contrast and controlled specular highlights.

For glass:

* preserve transparency, refraction and edge highlights.

For matte materials:

* preserve fine surface texture and avoid artificial gloss.

Do not make every surface shiny.

MATERIAL DEFINITION

Make each material visually distinct and physically believable.

Enhance subtle texture, microcontrast and highlight behavior so materials such as metal, plastic, glass, rubber, leather, paper or fabric retain their correct appearance.

Do not smooth away real texture or invent material properties that are not present in the original product.

COMMERCIAL COLOR & TONAL FINISH

Apply a clean premium commercial color treatment.

Improve:

* white balance;
* tonal consistency;
* controlled contrast;
* highlight rolloff;
* shadow depth;
* color accuracy;
* product/background separation.

Product colors must remain faithful to the original item.

Avoid aggressive cinematic color grading. This is commercial product photography, not a movie still.

DETAIL & CLARITY

Increase perceived product clarity through controlled local contrast and selective sharpening.

Important edges, labels and material textures should appear crisp and professionally photographed.

Avoid excessive sharpening, crunchy texture, fake HDR or artificially reconstructed details.

BRANDING & TEXT — CRITICAL

Preserve all visible branding, logos, labels, numbers, symbols and typography exactly as they appear in the source image.

Do not rewrite, regenerate, reinterpret, correct or replace existing product text.

Do not invent additional branding or text.

If existing text cannot be improved reliably, preserve it rather than regenerating it.

PRODUCT GEOMETRY — CRITICAL

Do not redesign the product.

Preserve exactly:

* silhouette;
* dimensions and proportions;
* corners and curves;
* buttons;
* openings;
* ports;
* handles;
* packaging structure;
* logos;
* labels;
* seams;
* screws;
* controls;
* visible components.

Do not add, remove, resize or reposition product features.

PERSPECTIVE & COMPOSITION

Preserve the original:

* camera angle;
* lens perspective;
* product orientation;
* crop;
* framing;
* aspect ratio.

Do not rotate, reposition or dramatically recrop the product.

PHOTOGRAPHIC REALISM

The result must still look like a real photograph taken with professional studio equipment.

Maintain physically coherent:

* lighting direction;
* reflection geometry;
* shadow direction;
* perspective;
* depth;
* surface response;
* focus behavior.

Avoid the appearance of a CGI render or completely regenerated product.

ARTIFACT PREVENTION

Avoid:

* altered or corrupted logos;
* unreadable or invented text;
* changed product geometry;
* warped packaging;
* excessive gloss;
* fake HDR;
* oversharpening;
* clipped highlights;
* crushed shadows;
* halos;
* floating products;
* impossible reflections;
* inconsistent shadows;
* artificial background blur;
* excessive saturation;
* plastic-looking surfaces;
* duplicated components;
* added props;
* obvious generative-AI artifacts.

EDITING STRENGTH

Make the photographic enhancement clearly visible.

The final image should have noticeably better studio lighting, dimensionality, reflections, contrast, background cleanliness and commercial polish than the source.

Do not interpret preservation instructions as a requirement to preserve poor lighting, weak contrast, distracting reflections or amateur photographic characteristics.

Preserve the PRODUCT.

Improve the PHOTOGRAPHY.

QUALITY CONTROL

Before finalizing, compare the result against the source image and verify:

* the exact same product is preserved;
* product geometry has not changed;
* branding and text remain accurate;
* studio lighting is clearly improved;
* materials remain realistic;
* reflections correspond correctly to surfaces;
* the product is naturally grounded;
* the background is cleaner and less distracting;
* the product has stronger visual separation and dimensionality;
* no unrelated objects were introduced;
* no AI-generated artifacts are visible.

OUTPUT

Return one polished final image only.

Preserve the original aspect ratio, composition and product placement.

Use the highest practical image quality and detail available.

Do not add captions, borders, watermarks, promotional text or additional graphic elements.