Uploading Products

Why the reference image is everything

Most AI tools treat your product description as a prompt — the AI interprets what "a bottle of shampoo" should look like and fills in the gaps. AIMS works differently. Your uploaded product photo is a hard visual constraint. The AI is not imagining your product; it is placing your actual product into new environments. This is why you can get 200 different background variations and every single one has your exact label, cap, and dimensions.

This approach — references over prompts — eliminates the biggest failure mode in AI product photography: hallucinated products that look plausible but aren't yours. The trade-off is that a poor input image (blurry, shadowed, cluttered) will produce poor outputs regardless of how well you write your background prompt.

File requirements

What makes a good source image

You do not need a professional camera. A careful phone photo near a window frequently outperforms a careless studio shot. What matters is lighting, background, and sharpness.

• Place your product on a white piece of paper or card. This gives AIMS a clean edge to detect and isolate.

• Use natural window light from one side. Avoid harsh overhead lighting, which creates flat-looking results.

• Keep the camera steady — use a tripod or prop your phone against something. Even slight blur will degrade output quality.

• Fill the frame. Crop tightly so the product occupies most of the image rather than floating in a sea of empty background.

• Avoid shadows falling across the product face. Diffuse light (overcast sky, or a white sheet over a window) is ideal.

• Shoot the front-facing angle first. Add side and detail shots as secondary uploads for more generation angles.

Uploading to your Product Library

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   Click "Add Product" in the left sidebar under Product Library.

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   Drag your image file into the upload zone or click to browse.

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   AIMS automatically removes the background and shows you the isolated cutout within a few seconds. Review it — if edges look rough, try re-uploading with a cleaner background.

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   Add a product name and optional tags (SKU, category, collection) to keep your library organised.

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   Click "Save." Your product is now available across all generation tools.

Adding multiple angles

Once a product is saved, open it and click "Add Angle." You can upload additional views — side, back, detail, flat lay — and tag each one. When generating at scale, you can select which angles to include in a batch, giving you different compositions from the same product without re-uploading.

Configuring brand settings

After uploading products, head to "Brand Settings" (gear icon, bottom of the left sidebar). Here you can set your brand colours, upload your logo, and define a brand name. AIMS uses these when generating ad creatives and video ads — your brand kit is automatically applied to text overlays, lower thirds, and end cards.