Photo Studio Reference

Photo Studio lives at dashboard.rastro.ai/photo-studio (Studio in the sidebar). It always operates on a selected catalog: products come from the catalog, generation history is kept per catalog, and results save back to catalog items. If you don’t have a catalog yet, start with the Catalogs Quickstart.

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Tools

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Quality: Fast vs Slow

The Fast / Slow switch picks the model tier for image generation:

• Fast — quickest and cheapest; great for iterating on prompt ideas.
• Slow (default) — the highest-quality model; use it for final shots.

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Multiple options per run

Set Images to generate up to 20 candidates from one prompt. Each generated image is billed separately, so 4 images cost 4× the single-image price. Generating a handful and picking the best result usually beats re-prompting one at a time.

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Reference images

Drag any image into the prompt box to guide the generation:

• Images tool — the drop becomes a style/context reference alongside your prompt.
• Video tool — the drop becomes the end frame, and the clip animates from the product image toward it.

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Prompt templates

Click Templates in the toolbar to open the Template Library — ready-made prompts for common product shots (lifestyle context, e-commerce hero on white, detail close-ups, resolution enhancement, marketplace image sets, and more). Selecting a template fills the prompt box; you can edit it before applying. To reuse a prompt you’ve written, type it in the prompt box, open Templates, give it a name under Save Current Prompt, and click Save. Templates are shared across your organization.

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Results and history

The left panel’s Results tab is the generation history for the selected catalog. Each run shows its input → output thumbnails, the prompt, a relative timestamp, and a status dot (blue pulsing = processing, green = completed, red = failed). Hover a run to pin it (pins are shared with your team) or delete it. Click any completed run to reopen its result on the canvas:

• Download the file
• View full size
• Save to catalog (see below)
• Trim (videos only) — cut the clip before downloading or saving

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Saving results to your catalog

Saving a result attaches it to the product it was generated from:

• Images are appended to the item’s image_urls gallery; videos go to video_urls.
• Existing media is never overwritten or removed — saves are additive and deduplicated.
• The change is a normal catalog item update, so it’s immediately visible in the catalog view, exports, and the public items API.

To make a generated image the product’s hero image, reorder the gallery afterwards — image_urls[0] is the hero.

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Credits and costs

Photo Studio draws from your organization’s shared credit balance — the same pool used by enrichment. The left panel always shows Credits: <estimated cost> / <balance> for the operation you’ve configured, before you click Apply. You are only charged for successful generations. Typical costs: See Credits for how balances, allowances, and packs work.

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Working with catalogs

• Catalog required — every generation and save is scoped to the selected catalog. Use the catalog picker’s Select a catalog entry to create one on the spot if needed.
• Products vs variants — for catalogs with product variants, the layers toggle in the left panel switches between product-level and variant-level views; saves target whichever level you’re working on.
• Upload — the upload button in the left panel accepts loose images and videos and routes them into catalog items.
• Search & pagination — search across all item fields with the search icon; large catalogs paginate at the bottom of the panel.

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Availability

Photo Studio is included on paid plans. On free organizations the Studio tab is visible but locked.