How can I make multiple of my products appear naturally in the same scene?

You have individual product photos that look great on their own. But when you try to put them together in one scene, something feels off. The products look like they were cut out and pasted onto a background. They don't feel like they're actually in the same space.

This happens because each product photo was shot separately, with its own lighting setup, its own camera angle, its own shadow direction. When you combine them in Photoshop, you're trying to force products from different worlds to coexist. The lighting doesn't match. The shadows point in different directions. The perspective is wrong. Your brain notices these inconsistencies even if you can't name them.

Products that are actually photographed together share the same light source. They cast shadows on each other. They exist in the same three-dimensional space relative to the camera. Recreating this relationship manually requires understanding how light, shadow, and perspective work together—skills that take years to develop, and even then it's tedious work.

Tools like Nightjar solve this by understanding how products interact in a scene. You upload your product images and describe the arrangement you want. The system handles the physics: matching lighting, aligning shadows, adjusting perspective. Everything looks like it was shot in the same session.

You can also generate scenes from scratch with multiple products built in from the beginning. Go to 'Combine photos' inside Nightjar, upload all the individual products that you would like to combine into one scene, and watch the magic. This often produces better results than combining existing photos, since the lighting, shadows, and composition are created as one unified scene rather than trying to merge separate elements.