ImageProduct photographyIntermediateGenerates an image

Hands-only product-in-hand shot

Shows scale and use by featuring a hand holding or applying the product, avoiding a full face while keeping the product clearly visible.

For: Performance marketers, Creative strategists, E-commerce marketers · Works with: OpenAI GPT Image, Google Gemini image generation (Nano Banana), FLUX (Black Forest Labs), Any image generator

Your prompt

Create a 4:5 close-up photograph of a hand holding up a compact lip balm tube. Hand: a medium-skin-tone adult hand with short natural nails, natural proportions with exactly five fingers, relaxed and believable grip, no jewellery unless specified. Product: facing the camera, fully legible shape and colour, accurately sized relative to the hand. Background: a soft pastel studio backdrop, softly out of focus. Light: soft window light from the right, natural skin texture, no airbrushed smoothing. Composition: product and hand in the middle third, plenty of breathing room. Constraints: no faces, no text, no logos other than on the product.

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What is held.

For example holding, applying, opening, pouring.

Generic description; do not describe a real person.

Setting.

Light.

Frame.

Example of what to expect

Illustrative only. It describes the kind of result this prompt aims for; real output varies by tool, model and run.

A close-up of a hand holding a lip balm tube toward the camera against a soft pastel backdrop, natural skin texture, five fingers.

Expected format: One image. Check fingers and grip.

How to use it

  1. Generate several and discard any with hand errors.
  2. Use the same hand description across a set for consistency.
  3. Pair with a clean packshot on product pages.

Limitations

  • Hands remain a frequent failure point for image models; inspect every output.
  • Product scale relative to the hand is often wrong; check against the real product.

Platform notes

OpenAI GPT Image

Official docs read · checked 2026-10-11

Aspect ratio is set with the size parameter, not in prose. Use medium or high quality for fine detail.

General notes on OpenAI GPT Image
  • OpenAI's guide covers gpt-image-2 (recommended), gpt-image-1.5, gpt-image-1 and gpt-image-1-mini.
  • Aspect ratio is set through the size parameter, not in prose. Quality is low, medium or high; medium or high is advised for small or dense text.
  • Put literal text in quotation marks, and when editing say what must stay unchanged.

Google Gemini image generation (Nano Banana)

Official docs read · checked 2026-10-11
General notes on Google Gemini image generation (Nano Banana)
  • Google's docs list several Nano Banana models (2.1, 2 Lite, 2, Pro) and recommend 2.1 for new projects as of the verification date.
  • Supported aspect ratios include 1:1, 4:5, 9:16, 16:9 and 21:9; sizes 1K, 2K and 4K. Up to 14 reference images per request.
  • All generated images carry a SynthID watermark.

FLUX (Black Forest Labs)

Official docs read · checked 2026-10-11

FLUX.2 does not use negative prompts, so constraints here are phrased as things to do.

General notes on FLUX (Black Forest Labs)
  • BFL's official guidance for FLUX.2: no negative prompts (describe what you want), write sentences rather than keyword lists, specify lighting, quote text to render, and pair colour names with hex codes.

Any image generator

Official docs read · checked 2026-10-11
General notes on Any image generator
  • Written as natural-language descriptions that the verified image models accept. Syntax for aspect ratio, quality and negative prompts differs by tool, so set those in your tool's own controls.

Source, license and attribution

Origin
Original by MarketerTools
Publisher
MarketerTools
License
Original work by MarketerTools, free to copy and use. Informed by the linked documentation; no third-party text is reproduced.
Platform assumptions checked
2026-10-11

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