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Product photos cleaned up into one consistent catalogue

Our product photo service takes the pictures you already have (supplier photos, phone shots, mixed sizes and backgrounds) and turns them into a consistent set: product cut out, plain background, square framing, no stray logos or text, exported for your shop, your ads and Google Merchant Center. We clean real photos of the real product; we never generate product images with AI.

What we do for you

  • Sorting the photos you have: main shots, details, lifestyle, infographics and unusable images set apart
  • Cut-out of the product and a plain, uniform background across the catalogue
  • Square framing with the product filling the frame consistently from one item to the next
  • Removal of floating supplier logos, watermarks, badges and text overlays from main images
  • One image per variant (colour, size, finish) when you have the real photos for it
  • Exports sized for your shop platform, your ads and Merchant Center, with descriptive file names and alt text
  • A list of products whose photos cannot be fixed, so you know which ones to reshoot or source again

Who it is for

  • Fits: shops built on supplier or dropshipping catalogues whose photos all look different
  • Fits: shops whose products are disapproved or look weak in Google Shopping
  • Fits: small brands shooting on a phone who need a clean, uniform look
  • Does not fit: studio fashion shoots with models, or fully AI-generated scenes; we do neither

Why the main image matters so much

In a product grid, on Google Shopping or in a Meta catalogue ad, the main image is often the only thing people see before deciding to click. A catalogue where one product sits on white, the next on a supplier's grey studio floor and the third under a red "HOT SALE" badge looks like three different shops, and it is harder to trust.

Google Merchant Center also sets rules for the main image. Its image link specification asks for at least 500 × 500 pixels (around 1,500 × 1,500 or more is recommended), forbids promotional overlays such as calls to action, prices or watermarks, forbids placeholders or generic images that do not show the product, and asks for the exact item being sold, with no border. Google recommends that the product fill between 75% and 90% of the image, and a distinct image for each variant.

What we have done

We clean supplier photos for the shops on our own sites, and for a cat-products shop in France whose Google Shopping feed covers 16 countries with 345 products approved in Merchant Center. The method is the same each time: sort, cut out, plain background, square framing, remove what floats on top, export, check.

What we will not do

  • Generate a product with AI. A picture must show the item the buyer will receive. If a photo cannot be fixed, we say so rather than invent one.
  • Change the product. We remove backgrounds and overlays; we do not change colours, shapes or materials to make an item look better than it is.
  • Use images without the right to. You confirm that you may use the supplier's photos (usually granted to resellers) or that the photos are yours.
  • Add fake badges. No invented "best seller", rating stars or crossed-out prices on images.

How it works

  1. Inventory. You send the photos, or access to your shop or supplier listings; we list what we have per product and variant.
  2. Sample. We clean five products and agree on the look with you: background, margins, shadow or none.
  3. Batch. We process the catalogue in that style and flag the products that need new photos.
  4. Delivery. Files exported for your platform, or uploaded to your shop and feed if you give us access.
  5. Check. We verify the feed's image status in Merchant Center when we manage it (see Google Shopping).

Questions we get

Do you need the products themselves?

No. We work from the photos you have. If a product only has poor photos, we tell you, and a few phone shots on a plain table are often enough to start from.

Can you make lifestyle images?

We can crop and clean your real lifestyle photos for ads and social media. We do not create AI scenes showing your product in places it has never been.

Will this fix Merchant Center disapprovals?

It fixes the image causes we can see, such as overlays, watermarks or images that are too small. Other causes (price mismatch, missing identifiers, policy) are part of feed work.

How many products can you handle?

From a handful to large catalogues; the work is batched once the style is agreed. We report the products we could not fix rather than hiding them.

Sources

  1. Merchant Center Help: image link [image_link] specification (checked 2026-10-06)
  2. Merchant Center Help: product data specification (checked 2026-10-06)

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