How to create my first photo shoot? (step-by-step)

Generate your first photo shoot, from an uploaded product to finished images.

The steps at a glance

Start a new photo shoot
Say what you are styling: clothing, shoes, glasses, bags or headwear
Add the product you want to shoot
Choose your models
Choose your angle shots
Add styling to complete the look, if you want it
Choose your backgrounds
Launch the generation

1. Start a photo shoot

Use Create at the top of the sidebar, or open Photo shoots under Studio.

Work inside a project to keep a collection together, or work without one. Veeton tells you when you are working outside a project, and saves your results either way.

2. Say what you are styling

Veeton opens with “What are we styling today?”. Pick the category that matches your product:

Clothing — t-shirts, dresses, jackets
Shoes — sneakers, heels, boots
Glasses — sunglasses, optical, sport
Bags — handbags, clutches, totes
Headwear — caps, beanies, hats

The category decides which angle shots you are offered further down. Change it at any time from the project settings.

3. Add your product

Add the product you want to shoot, either from your library or by importing new photos. This is the photo shoot’s main product — the styling comes later.

Starting from a product instead. In Library → Products, hover a product, open More actions (the ⋯ on the card) and click Photo shoot. The photo shoot opens with that product already in place as the main product, in your current project if you are working in one. The category is read from the product’s own category — a pair of sneakers opens on shoes, sunglasses on glasses, a handbag on bags, a hat on headwear, clothing on clothing — so steps 1 to 3 are done for you. A product with no category, or with one that has no photo shoot of its own (jewelry, a belt, a scarf), opens on clothing. This shortcut is on computer only.

A switch above the product grid chooses where products come from: Veeton products, Your library, and — when you work inside a project — Project products, the products linked to that project. Inside a project the picker opens on the project’s products when it has some, and on your library when it has none. If you pick Project products and none match — no styling items yet, for example — the grid says how many match in your library: click Browse your library to switch to it, or Add a product to import one.

4. Build the look

Each product has its own row, with four things to fill in. Drag assets straight onto the row, or open the chooser for each one.

Models — add as many as you like to a product; each one gets its own images. If nothing in the library suits your brand, generate your own model.

Angle shots — the viewpoint and framing. The tabs follow your category, so a shoes photo shoot offers shoe angles rather than full-body ones.

The Framing filter narrows them further, to Full body, Upper body, Lower body or Head close-up — plus Baby on a baby photo shoot. It only lists the framings the current tab actually has.
The Group button — in the toolbar next to Filters, and only on the angle shot picker — stacks the grid into headed sections you can fold away: by category, by framing, by date, or — on your own angle shots — by tag. Each header shows how many angle shots the section holds.

Grouping by tag puts an angle shot under every tag you gave it, so one carrying two appears twice; a sub-tag gets its own section, directly under its parent; and the ones you have not tagged gather in a No tag section at the end. It is offered on My angle shots only — Veeton’s own catalog carries no tags. Searching turns it off while the search is active, and clearing the search brings the sections back.
The grid can already open grouped before you pick anything, and each tab starts differently. Veeton angles open grouped by framing. Your own angles open as a flat grid.
To go back to a single flat grid, click the active grouping again or use the Clear inside the Group panel. It only clears the grouping — the Filters panel has its own separate Clear for your filters.
Veeton remembers your choice per tab (Veeton angles and your own angles keep separate settings) and shares it with every place you pick an angle shot, so changing it here also changes it in the Angle shots library, Editorial and Model swap.
Your own angle shots can be filed under any of the built-in categories — see How do I organize my angle shots into categories?

Styling — optional products to complete the look. Leave it empty and Veeton picks something that suits your product during generation. A product cannot be both the main product and a styling item.

Backgrounds — Monochrome, Pastel, Vivid, Textured, Indoor, Floor and Outdoor.

Two settings are worth knowing:

The Look at the camera switch.
The pair of Product image and Styling image settings in the Advanced panel. They choose which image of each product the generation starts from: the Original upload or the Beautified version. New product configurations start on the original upload, and a product you set to Beautified without a beautified version falls back to its original upload. The thumbnail on the card always shows the image that will actually be used.

Veeton saves your changes automatically as you go.

5. Check how many images you are about to generate

A product generates one image for every combination of model, angle shot and background. Three models with two angle shots and one background is six images, not three — so the count grows quickly. Final preview shows exactly what you are about to launch.

Each photo shoot image costs 10 credits. See How many credits for a photo, a video or a model? for the other rates, or the free trial if you are still trying Veeton out.

6. Launch, and afterwards

Click Launch generation. It takes a few minutes, and you can carry on working while it runs. Results appear in your project and in your gallery, ready to download.

To shoot the same product with a different look, reopen the project and add a blank configuration next to the first one, then set it up with different models, angles or backgrounds.