lifestyle-product-photographylisted

# Lifestyle Product Photography White-background images tell a customer what the product *is*. Lifestyle images tell them what having it *is like*, and that's what sells on social, in ads and further down a listing. They're also where generated imagery is at its most useful, because context is exactly what's expensive to photograph and cheap to generate. ## Lifestyle vs listing images | | Listing image | Lifestyle image | |---|---|---| | Background | Pure white, mandated | A real setting | | Job | Identification, comparison | Desire, context, scale | | Grade | **Neutral, accurate** | Graded for mood | | Props | None allowed | Encouraged | | People | Usually not | Often | | Where it runs | Main listing slot | Ads, social, secondary slots | | Accuracy standard | Strict | Still strict on the product | **Keep the two separate.** A graded lifestyle render is the wrong image for the main listing slot — the grade shifts the product's colour and the customer receives something that doesn't match. See `white-background-ecommerce`. ## The two routes **`replace_background`** — 3 credits, swaps the scene and relights the subject. Fast, reliable, and the right default when you have a clean product shot. ``` replace_background( image=PRODUCT_CUTOUT, prompt="Pale oak kitchen counter, soft morning light from a window " "on the left, blurred kitchen behind at f/2.8, warm neutral " "grade, subtle contact shadow, a folded linen cloth just " "out of focus i