Product Photography API

What is a Product Photography API?

A product photography API turns a plain product image into a styled marketing or catalog shot — a model holding or using the item, set against a studio backdrop, lifestyle scene, or creative background described by a prompt — without booking a photo shoot, a studio, or a model.

Muapi exposes this through AI Product Photography, a single endpoint that takes a person_image_url, a product_image_url, and a prompt describing the style or setting, and returns the composited result — one API key, one request/poll flow, pay-as-you-go pricing.

Product Photography vs. Virtual Try-On

These are adjacent but distinct intents. Product photography composites a product onto a person and places both into a new prompt-described scene — the goal is a styled marketing or lifestyle shot, and the background and setting are driven by the prompt. Virtual try-on takes an existing person photo and swaps in a different garment while keeping the original scene — the goal is a fit/look visualization of that specific person. If your goal is "produce a styled lifestyle photo of this product with a model," use product photography; if your goal is "show how this garment looks on this exact person," use virtual try-on instead.

Key Capabilities

Getting Good Input and Prompt Results

• Use a clear, well-lit person photo. A single subject, neutral pose, and good lighting gives the model the cleanest reference for compositing the product naturally.
• Isolate the product. A clean product shot with minimal background clutter produces more accurate shape and texture transfer than a product photographed in a busy scene.
• Be specific in the prompt. Describe the background, lighting, and mood explicitly — "studio white background, soft lighting" and "outdoor lifestyle shot, golden hour" produce very different results from the same two input images.
• Expect some iteration. Like every generative image model, results vary run to run — treat the first output as a draft and re-run with a refined prompt or cleaner source image if the composite looks off.

How to Call the Product Photography API

1. Host both images. Upload the person photo and product photo via POST /api/v1/upload_file, or use any publicly reachable URL.
2. Submit the request. POST /api/v1/ai-product-photography with person_image_url, product_image_url, and prompt.
3. Poll for completion. Check GET /api/v1/predictions/{request_id}/result until status is completed, then download the composited image.

curl -X POST https://api.muapi.ai/api/v1/ai-product-photography \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "person_image_url": "https://example.com/model-photo.jpg",
    "product_image_url": "https://example.com/product-photo.jpg",
    "prompt": "Promoting brand in professional studio look"
  }'

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.muapi.ai/api/v1/ai-product-photography",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    json={
        "person_image_url": "https://example.com/model-photo.jpg",
        "product_image_url": "https://example.com/product-photo.jpg",
        "prompt": "Promoting brand in professional studio look",
    },
)
request_id = response.json()["request_id"]

result = requests.get(
    f"https://api.muapi.ai/api/v1/predictions/{request_id}/result",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
print(result.json())

Frequently Asked Questions