Studio-quality photos, without the studio.
4K product shots in 48 hours, checked by a real person.
Fifteen product heroes. Every major category.
What this replaces.
Real products, shot on a phone, turned into a campaign hero. Drag the handle to see the same listing before and after.
Why the work looks studio-shot, not generated.
Every prompt runs against the same style spine, so the whole portfolio reads as one studio's output. That's what separates a top-rated portfolio from one that obviously came out of a chatbot.
Cinematic colour grade
Slightly desaturated highlights and warm shadows, kept clear of over-saturation.
Studio-grade lighting
Considered key, fill and reflection, so it reads like a real shoot rather than a flat render.
Real surface texture
Real pores, weave, dust and grain, instead of plastic-skin or waxy retouching.
- Flat, evenly-lit catalogue snaps
- Hyper-saturated rainbow gradients
- Plastic-skin retouching
- Multiple competing focal points
- Generic stock-photo backdrops
From brief to upload-ready in a couple of days.
Send the brief
Tell me the product or channel, the niche, and any references. A quick back-and-forth locks the direction before I generate anything.
First draft
I generate against the style spine and send the first composition. Framing, grade and text are locked, and it doesn't read as AI.
Refine
Three rounds of revisions on grade, crop, composition or props, until it looks right.
Delivery
High-resolution finals, sized for your storefront and listings, ready to upload.
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Simple per-image and pack rates.
Full 5-pack for £35 while we get started. Send a phone shot to begin, hero back in 48 hours, yours to use anywhere.
Single Image
- One product photograph
- White, lifestyle or moody
- 3 revision rounds included
- Listing-ready 4K export
Starter Set
- Three product shots
- Just £30 each
- Mixed style coverage
- 3 revision rounds each
Full Set
- Five product shots
- Just £28 each
- Mixed style coverage
- 3 revision rounds each
Five fresh images every month
New SKUs, seasonal sets and a steady stream of content for your storefront and socials. Priority turnaround, same human-directed quality.
Not happy? I'll redo it or refund you. No arguments.
Need a bigger batch or a recurring series? Ask for a custom quote.
48-Hour Delivery
From signed brief to first draft
3 Refinement Rounds
Until it lands
Built by an R&D Engineer
Not a Fiverr freelancer
Hugo Idle
R&D Engineer · FounderI'm Hugo, a mechanical design engineer with five years' experience. I run marketing and business development for a deep-tech startup, where I handle complex technical design and product renders and built the company's marketing website. So there's a real design eye behind every IdleImage shot. Briefs come from me personally, never outsourced, and if one doesn't land we keep iterating until it does. It's also why this starts at £35, not £750.
Send me your product photo.
Tell me what you're selling and I'll send one finished shot back, free. No card, no catch. Reply to my email with your photo attached and you'll have it within a day.
The bit before you hit send.
Cheaper and faster than a real shoot, and done-for-you rather than DIY. A proper product shoot on Fiverr starts around £150 per shot for anything that doesn't look like a phone snap, and takes 5 to 10 days. The cheap AI tools (Photoroom, Pebblely and the like) hand you a subscription and leave the work to you. IdleImage sits in the middle: I run the pipeline for you and deliver five finished hero shots for £140 in 48 hours. The tradeoff is that I can't physically hold your product. But if your buyers will accept a generated hero (the portfolio above proves they will), the maths is obvious. I also keep a small Fiverr gig running for one-off thumbnails if that's all you need.
All shots are yours to use commercially, in perpetuity. Amazon listings, Shopify stores, ads, anywhere. No royalties, no per-channel licensing, no time limits. The only thing I ask is that you don't resell the raw files as stock.
Every brief includes three rounds of revisions per shot. Most briefs land on round one because we lock the style direction before I generate anything. If something's off, tell me what to change and I'll redo it. And if it still doesn't land, I'll redo it properly or refund you. No arguments.
Both. Send me clear reference photos of your product from a few angles (a normal phone shoot is fine) and I'll use those as the foundation. What changes is the lighting, composition, surface, props, and atmosphere. The product stays your product. For invented brand work (catalogues, mood boards, mockups) I work from a description.
Because I'm not flying to your warehouse, renting a studio, or styling props for six hours. I'm an R&D engineer running an AI pipeline I built myself, so my marginal cost per shot is effectively the compute. That's a real cost advantage. Not a discount, not a loss-leader. As demand grows the price will too.