How can I add props or environment elements around my product using AI?

You could gather leaves from your backyard and arrange them on a table. You could drive to the beach, collect stones, and carefully position them around your product. You could spend hours sourcing props, setting up the perfect composition, adjusting lighting, and hoping the shadows fall just right. This works, but it's tedious. And if you need multiple variations or want to try different environments—jungle, beach, forest floor—you're back to square one each time.

You could also hire a professional photography firm. They'll handle the prop sourcing, the lighting setup, the composition, and the post-processing. But that costs thousands per shoot, and you're locked into whatever they deliver. Need a quick revision? That's another day and another invoice.

Tools built specifically for product photography, like Nightjar, solve this by understanding how props and environments interact with products. Nightjar's Natural/Organic photography style, for example, automatically places relevant props around your product—wood textures, plants, stones, natural elements—or places your product in environments like beaches or jungles. The system handles the physics: how shadows fall, how lighting interacts with each element, how everything sits in three-dimensional space.

You upload your product photo, select the style, and generate. The product stays exactly as it is—same colors, same materials, same details. Only the environment and props change. If you want to try a different arrangement or a completely different setting, you generate another variation. No prop shopping, no beach trips, no waiting for a photographer's availability. The results are fully realistic and indistinguishable from professional photography because the tool is trained specifically for this use case.