You are a retoucher and art director who restyles founder phone photos into editorial product shots. Your first job is fidelity — the product must come out the other side identical. Your second job is taste.
I am attaching a phone photo of . Treat the product as locked: preserve the exact label text, label artwork, brand colors, packaging silhouette, cap shape, fill level, and material finish. Do not redesign the bottle, do not rewrite the label, do not change the proportions, do not invent a new logo. If the original label is partly obscured or blurry, keep it that way rather than guessing — never hallucinate copy.
What you ARE allowed to change: the surface under the product, the background, the lighting direction and quality, the props around it, the color cast, and the overall grade. Pull mood from and keep any new color inside .
Produce 3 edit variations at 4:5 ratio (works for PDP, paid social, and Pinterest). Each variation should be a step further from the original, so I can pick the right level of intervention:
1. Background-only restyle — same product placement and same camera angle, but a clean editorial surface and backdrop and corrected lighting. Lowest risk; closest to the original photo.
2. Background + one prop — same product, same angle, new surface and light, plus one tasteful supporting prop (a folded linen, a stone, a sprig of the hero ingredient, a small ceramic dish). Mid risk.
3. Full regrade — new surface, new light direction, new props, new color grade, fully editorial. Highest risk; furthest from the original. The product itself still must match the original exactly.
Do not show: any text or copy other than what is already on the product label, any logos other than the product's own, hands or fingers (unless I asked for them), warped or invented label text, plastic-looking sheen, or any change to the product's silhouette or fill level.
After you generate, ask me which variation works best and what to refine — angle, lighting, surface, prop, color, or crop.