Why is my background grey in the corners?

Light falloff across the sweep. It reads as white to your eye and as non-white to an automated check, which is the most common reason a primary image is flagged.

Can a background be too white?

Yes. Blown past white it swallows the edges of pale products, and a cream garment loses its outline entirely.

A small soft contact shadow is what makes a product look present rather than pasted. Nothing rests on a surface without occluding some light.

Transparent PNG or white JPEG?

Transparent is more flexible across themes; flattened white is usually what a marketplace primary requires. Decide per destination.

What about hair, fur and mesh?

Those are where cutouts fail visibly. Soft, semi-transparent edges need care, and hard clipping around them is instantly obvious.

Is white always the right choice?

For marketplace primaries and catalogue grids, usually. For discovery channels like Pinterest, a context scene generally performs better.

Does it work for glass and transparent products?

They are the hardest case, since a transparent object on white needs edge definition that only careful lighting or a subtle gradient provides.

Is the free generation really free?

Yes. One per day, watermarked and capped at 1024px. Signing up gives you 20 credits and clean full-resolution files with full commercial rights.

White Background Product Photos

True white is harder than it sounds, and grey corners are why listings get flagged.

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How it works

1. Upload your product
Any background works — that is the part being replaced.
2. Choose the studio preset
It targets an even white field with a natural contact shadow.
3. Generate and download
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Why this is worth getting right

A white background sounds like the simplest possible brief and is one of the harder things to achieve physically, which is why so many listings sit on something that is nearly white rather than white. Bouncing light off a paper sweep almost always leaves a gradient, brighter behind the product and falling off toward the corners, and that falloff is exactly what an automated marketplace check reads as a non-white background. Fixing it in camera means lighting the background separately from the product, which is a two-light setup most sellers do not have. The second problem is the opposite failure: blowing the background so far past white that the edges of a pale product dissolve into it, so a cream jumper on a blown white sweep loses its outline entirely and the silhouette becomes unreadable. Contact shadow is the detail that separates a competent white-background image from an obviously cut-out one. A product floating with no shadow reads as pasted, because nothing in the physical world sits on a surface without occluding some light, and a small, soft, correctly-placed shadow is what makes an object look present rather than assembled. Edge quality is where cheap cutouts betray themselves, particularly on hair, fur, mesh and anything transparent, since a hard-clipped edge around a soft subject is instantly recognisable. And the finished file needs deciding deliberately: transparent for flexibility across themes, flattened white where a marketplace requires it.

Tips that actually help

Check the corners rather than the centre, because background falloff is what automated marketplace checks actually flag.
Avoid blowing the background so far that pale products lose their outline into it.
Keep a small soft contact shadow, since a product with none reads as pasted on rather than photographed.
Watch the edges on hair, mesh and transparent materials, where hard clipping is immediately recognisable.
Decide between transparent and flattened white deliberately, since a marketplace primary usually needs the latter.

Who uses this

Marketplace compliance: Amazon and Walmart both expect a genuinely white primary image, and grey corners are the usual failure.
Catalogue consistency: One uniform background across a whole store is what makes a grid look designed rather than assembled.
Supplier image clean-up: Resellers receiving photos on mixed backgrounds need them unified before listing.
Print and line sheets: Clean isolated products are the default for wholesale documents where comparison matters.

Questions fréquentes

Why is my background grey in the corners?: Light falloff across the sweep. It reads as white to your eye and as non-white to an automated check, which is the most common reason a primary image is flagged.
Can a background be too white?: Yes. Blown past white it swallows the edges of pale products, and a cream garment loses its outline entirely.
Do I need a shadow?: A small soft contact shadow is what makes a product look present rather than pasted. Nothing rests on a surface without occluding some light.
Transparent PNG or white JPEG?: Transparent is more flexible across themes; flattened white is usually what a marketplace primary requires. Decide per destination.
What about hair, fur and mesh?: Those are where cutouts fail visibly. Soft, semi-transparent edges need care, and hard clipping around them is instantly obvious.
Is white always the right choice?: For marketplace primaries and catalogue grids, usually. For discovery channels like Pinterest, a context scene generally performs better.
Does it work for glass and transparent products?: They are the hardest case, since a transparent object on white needs edge definition that only careful lighting or a subtle gradient provides.
Is the free generation really free?: Yes. One per day, watermarked and capped at 1024px. Signing up gives you 20 credits and clean full-resolution files with full commercial rights.

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