Google is adding a new Photoshoot feature to its Pomelli marketing tool to help businesses turn ordinary product photos into polished, brand ready images.
Quick Summary – TLDR:
- Photoshoot in Pomelli turns basic product pictures into studio style visuals using Business DNA and Nano Banana image generation.
- Businesses can pick a photo, choose templates like studio or lifestyle, then refine the results before saving or downloading.
- Pomelli is also getting better image accuracy, edit tools, style reference, and more ways to build specific campaigns using images or a product page link.
- The feature is free, but availability is currently limited to select countries.
What Happened?
Google Labs has introduced Photoshoot, a new feature inside its free platform Pomelli. The update is designed to help small and medium sized businesses create professional looking product photos quickly, without needing a studio setup or a big budget.
How Photoshoot Works Inside Pomelli?
At the center of the update is Pomelli’s Business DNA, which is Google’s way of capturing a brand’s context and visual identity. Once that profile is in place, Photoshoot uses it to apply consistent styling across the images it generates.
The workflow is meant to be simple:
- Pick a product photo: You can start with almost any image, even if it is not perfectly lit or framed.
- Choose a template: Pomelli offers curated options like studio and lifestyle, and it can also suggest templates.
- Generate: The system creates new visuals that match the look and feel of your brand, guided by Business DNA.
- Refine: Users can make finishing edits before exporting the final image.
Google says the generated assets can be downloaded or saved back into Business DNA, so they can be reused later when building a campaign.
Why Google Thinks This Matters for Small Businesses?
Pomelli is positioned for businesses that need a steady flow of marketing visuals but do not have the time, budget, or staff to keep up with constant content demands. That includes sellers of handmade goods, food and beverage brands, and service businesses like fitness studios.
For many of these teams, the biggest challenge is consistency. Product photography, social posts, and ads often end up looking disconnected across channels. Pomelli’s approach is to centralize brand context in Business DNA, then use it to keep the visuals aligned across different outputs.
More Updates Coming Alongside Photoshoot
Photoshoot is not the only change. Google is also rolling out improvements across Pomelli that make it easier to generate and adjust content with more control.
Better image generation and editing tools
Pomelli is getting updated image models aimed at improving prompt accuracy. Users can also make text based edits, like changing a background to a different setting, and use a style reference image to guide the look of a new output.
More specific campaign creation
Google is also expanding how campaigns are created in Pomelli, with two notable additions:
- You can upload images directly into a campaign prompt to better ground the creative direction.
- You can add product context by entering a product page link, letting Pomelli use the images, title, and description from that page to generate more tailored promotions.
Together, these updates push Pomelli closer to being a one stop place for creating both the visuals and the messaging that go with them.
Availability
Pomelli and Photoshoot are free through Google Labs. The Photoshoot feature is currently available to users in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Reports also note the tool is not yet available in India.
SQ Magazine Takeaway
I like this move because it targets a real pain point: small teams need better visuals, but hiring photographers and running constant shoots is expensive and slow. If Pomelli can reliably produce on brand images that look natural, not plastic, it could save businesses a lot of time and help them show up more professionally online. The big catch is availability. Keeping it limited to a few countries slows down the impact, especially in markets where small businesses are growing fast and need tools like this the most.
