How to bulk-generate product photos for your entire catalog

Resolution is the variable that decides what a catalogue run costs. A 1K image is one credit, 2K is two, and 4K is three, so the same hundred products cost a hundred credits or three hundred depending on a choice made before the run starts, not after.

The practical answer for most catalogues is to generate at 1K while you are still deciding which scenes work, then re-run only the approved shots at the resolution you actually ship. Choosing 4K for an exploratory pass triples the cost of the images you were always going to discard.

It is also worth knowing where high resolution is genuinely needed. Marketplace listings are displayed far smaller than sellers assume, and most are served a resized copy regardless of what you upload. Print, zoom-on-hover, and hero placements are where the extra resolution earns its credits.

Consistency across a catalogue comes from constraint, not from effort. Pick a small set of scenes, two or three, and use them across every product rather than choosing a new one per item. A catalogue shot in three scenes reads as deliberate; the same catalogue in forty scenes reads as assembled from stock.

Products carry over between runs, so a product uploaded once can be put through any number of scenes later without re-uploading it. For products that photograph awkwardly, adding a second or third reference photo from different angles gives Lume more to work from and makes the results across a batch noticeably steadier.