Speckled stoneware mug
Checked: the dark speckles, the matte sage glaze stopping above a raw clay foot, the handle’s shape.
For Etsy and handmade sellers
Your handmade piece, in a few more rooms.
Making the piece is the work. Staging, lighting and shooting it in five settings is a second job. Send one clear photo of the real piece and get scenes of it on a shelf, a table or in a gift box, with the glaze, grain and stitching it actually has.
- You send
- One clear photo of the real piece
- You get
- 4 to 12 scenes in 4:5, plus a 1:1 crop
- Best used
- As mood shots after your own photos
- Price
- From $39, fixed packages
01Your photos first
Keep the honest photo first.
People who buy handmade want to know that what arrives is what they saw. Etsy asks sellers to represent items accurately, and buyers can open a case when an item doesn’t match its photos. So the scenes add to your photos; they don’t replace them.
- Your photos
- The first image and the detail shots: the glaze up close, the back, the maker’s mark, the piece in your hand for scale. Buyers zoom into these.
- The scenes
- Mood and context: the room it belongs in, how it looks wrapped as a gift, how it looks on an autumn windowsill.
- Say so
- A line in your description like “some photos are styled digital scenes of this piece” tells buyers what they’re looking at. The piece itself stays handmade; only the setting is generated.
Check Etsy’s current Seller Policy for your category before you upload. Etsy’s rules on AI and on how listings are photographed have changed more than once.
02Details kept
The irregular bits are the point.
Image AI likes to make things smooth and perfect. Handmade pieces aren’t. Each scene is checked against your photo for exactly the details that make the piece yours, and anything that got “cleaned up” is redone free.
Leather card holder
Checked: the contrast stitching, the thumb notch, the cognac tone and the number of card slots.
Terracotta candle
Checked: the unglazed clay, the vessel’s proportions, the wooden wick.
03Seasons
A gift season without a new shoot.
The same piece can sit on a winter table in December and an autumn windowsill in October. Swap the mood images in your listing, your shop banner or your Pinterest pins; the 4:5 format suits feeds and pins as well.
04Pricing
Small packages, for one piece at a time.
For most handmade listings, Basic covers it: four scenes of one piece. If you make a design in several colors, each color is its own product; a second one with the same contents costs 80% of the package price.
05FAQ
Handmade questions.
Etsy’s focus is that listings show the item accurately. A generated setting around your real, checked piece is a different thing from an AI-made product, but keep your own photos as the first image and the detail shots, mention the styled scenes in your description, and check Etsy’s current Seller Policy for your category.
The piece keeps its real irregularities, because each scene is built from your photo and checked against it: speckles, grain, uneven edges, visible stitching. If the AI smooths them away, that’s a fidelity fix and free.
Yes, for the piece in the photo. The scenes show exactly that piece, not a “similar” one. For one-of-a-kind items that’s what you want. For made-to-order items, say in your listing that each piece varies, as you would with normal photos.
Daylight, a plain background, the whole piece in frame and in focus. A phone photo is fine. The clearer the details in your photo, the more of them can be checked and kept.
No. Scenes are product-only, without people. For jewellery or clothing worn on the body, your own photos are the better choice.
Yes: in your own shop, on Pinterest, Instagram and in ads. If you run them as ads on Meta or TikTok, switch on the platform’s AI-content label. AI images aren’t exclusive, so a similar image could in theory be made for someone else.
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