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Using Nanomelon for ecommerce and catalog images

Lifestyle sets that keep the real product—without inventing a fake label

Ecommerce teams often ask Nanomelon to “put my bottle in a luxury kitchen.” If you do that as pure text-to-image, you usually get a bottle that is almost yours and a label that is nonsense. This workflow treats Nanomelon as a set designer, not as a packaging printer. It pairs with image-to-image and the credit habits in models and credits.

What belongs in text-to-image

Mood boards, empty rooms, fabric swatches, prop tables without logos, and hero scenes where the product is not yet locked. Text-to-image is also fine for social banners that do not need legible packaging type. Aspect ratios: 1:1 for marketplace tiles, 4:5 for mobile PDPs, 16:9 for store banners. Do not generate 16:9 and crop to 1:1 for the main SKU image—the model will have filled the sides with clutter you then throw away.

What belongs in image-to-image

Any frame where the silhouette, label layout, or barcode region must stay recognizably yours. Shoot or export a clean packshot on white or seamless. Upload that as the source. Prompt only the change: “keep bottle and label identical, place on marble with north window light, soft shadow under base, no new text.” Mention materials (frosted glass, kraft cardboard) so plastic does not become crystal.

If the model still warps typography, plan to composite the real label in Photoshop or Figma. That is normal. Paying credits to “fix the letters” usually fails; paying credits to get the lighting right and then pasting type is cheaper.

A three-shot set for one SKU

  1. Packshot. Real photo or careful render. No AI required.
  2. Lifestyle A. Img2img into a kitchen or vanity with one light direction.
  3. Lifestyle B. Same source, different set (travel bag, outdoor sill). Keep quantity at 1 until the first lifestyle works.

Publish only images you have rights to sell under. AI backgrounds do not erase trademark issues on the product itself. Our Terms put infringement risk on the account holder.

Props and brand safety

Do not ask the model to draw competitor logos, luxury monograms, or celebrity endorsers. Describe generic props: “ceramic cup,” “linen towel,” not a named brand. If a lifestyle scene needs a phone, say “blank black smartphone,” not a trademarked device name if that triggers filters.

Keep public gallery toggles off for client work. Public pages expose prompts. Client SKUs and unreleased packaging should stay private in the account.

Color and claims

Marketplace photos that misrepresent color can create chargebacks and ad-policy issues. If the real bottle is matte sage, say “matte sage glass, not shiny emerald.” Do not invent clinical before/after medical claims as images; that is a restricted area for ads and for our publisher rules.

Credit budget for a catalog week

Estimate one packshot (real), two img2img lifestyle successes, and two failed experiments per SKU. Failures refund; experiments that “succeed” but look wrong still cost. Prefer one model for a whole catalog so skin and shadow behavior stay consistent across the grid. When a model disappears from the list, upstream pricing changed—save stills, not only model names.

Related reading

Start from a real packshot on the homepage in image-to-image mode. Keep quantity at 1.