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

Quick Answer

Use a multi-image AI editor that lets you reference each product photo directly inside one prompt. In Nightjar, the Edit tab lets you add up to eight product images to a board, refer to them as @image1, @image2, @image3 in plain English, and generate one scene that shares lighting, shadows, and perspective across every product, instead of pasting flat layers in Photoshop.

Why combining products usually feels off

When you paste two or three photos together, they look wrong:

• Lighting: one product is lit from the left, another from the right.
• Perspective: one is shot from above, another from the front.
• Shadows: they do not interact, so the products float instead of sitting in the scene.

Photoshop is a 2D surface. Forcing several flat images to look like they share a 3D space takes hours of expert retouching.

How to do it in Nightjar

Nightjar's Edit tab is a multi-image editing surface. You add product photos to a board (each saved photo in Nightjar is called an Asset), then write one prompt that points to each Asset by name.

1. Open the Edit tab.
2. Add each product Asset to the board. The board holds up to eight inputs.
3. Write one prompt that references each Asset directly. For example: "place @image1 and @image2 next to @image3 on a marble countertop, soft window light from the left."
4. Generate.

The Edit tab composes the products into one scene with shared light direction and contact shadows, so the result is closer to a single shoot than a collage. From there you can refine with Edit Shortcuts (Nightjar's name for one-click prompt templates in the Edit tab) like Reframe or Change Format, or send the result through Photoshoot to expand it into four cohesive variants for a listing gallery.

If this is a setup you'll reuse, save it as a Recipe. Nightjar has a feature called Recipes: a saved Create-form setup that captures style, composition, background, and output settings, so you can apply the same look to the next bundle without rebuilding the brief.