The most common types are white background images, lifestyle photography (showing the product in use), and detail shots that highlight product features. A mix of these styles can help customers better understand your product.

Professional product photography increases conversions by showing products clearly, accurately, and attractively. High-quality images build trust with customers and are essential for selling on platforms like Amazon, Shopify, and Walmart.

Product photography is the process of capturing high-quality images of products to showcase them for marketing, ecommerce, or advertising. Great product photos help customers understand, trust, and buy your products online.

Yes! In addition to product photography, soona offers short-form product videos and UGC designed for ecommerce, paid ads, and social media. You can add video services to any shoot.

Yes! Our team specializes in Amazon-compliant product images (white background, sizing standards) and Shopify-ready content. We ensure your photos are optimized for platform guidelines — so you can launch faster without reshoots.

Unlike traditional studios, soona lets you create product photography completely online. You ship us your products, direct the shoot live from your computer, and pay only for the images you love. We combine creativity, convenience, and ecommerce expertise to deliver content that sells.

soona offers fast, affordable ecommerce product photography with turnaround times as quick as 24 hours. You can ship your products to one of our studios, direct the shoot virtually, and get professional images ready for Shopify, Amazon, and beyond.

Absolutely. Our team acts like an extension of your brand team — providing creative guidance, styling, and shot planning to make sure your images align with your brand’s look and feel.

We offer ecommerce product photography, lifestyle photography, Amazon and Shopify product images, as well as custom shoots to fit your brand's needs. Whether you need crisp white background shots or creative styled scenes, we’ve got you covered.

Enterprise packages and preferred credits are valid for 1 year from the date of purchase unless otherwise specified in a contract.

All stylists have access to 100+ different standard props available in our studios. Any props outside our prop list can be shipped to our studio. For any fresh ingredients and florals you need, you can book our grocery shopping service when you plan your shoot.

Every soona shoot includes one photographer. A stylist provides an extra pair of hands to assist with things like:

• 5+ items in a single shot
• Swatches or cosmetic textures
• Food or ingredients
• Apparel that needs to be steamed, styled, folded, or pinned
• Recreating the style of a shot you want to referencing

After you book a shoot, we’ll review your goals and shot list. Some shoots may require the styling pro service to be executed successfully.

We hire specialists in the same cities as our studios with years of experience working on successful content shoots for brands like yours. Whether they’re a stylist or photographer, they’re proven professionals in their area of expertise who show up to every shoot on time and ready to collaborate.

Always and forever. We’ve pre-negotiated standardized rates across our entire pro network so you never have to worry about the legal mumbo jumbo when you’re planning you’re shoot.

We have 700+ models in our network across a wide variety of ages, skin tones, and genders with profiles that include specific details, like measurements, piercings, location, and availability.

During model selection, when you book a shoot, we automatically filter for models available in the same city and day as your shoot. If you need a specific type of model, you can start your search from the model directory to browse all our models.

Sign up or log into your soona account to preview our Model Directory where you can view the details and availability for each model, and apply filters like model type and city to narrow your search.

You can book models directly from our directory or choose from available models near your assigned studio during the Model Selection step as you build your shoot in soona.

If you still have questions, you can email our support team at hey@soona.co or text us during support hours (Monday-Friday 8am-4pm MST) at 512-270-3331.

You can find your completed photos in the gallery tab of your soona booking. You will receive an automated email once your photos have been completed.

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We will aim to have your photos completed within 10 business days of the product’s arrival in our Denver studio. Once complete, you will receive an email that your photos are ready to download and use at iStock Gen AI!

Oversized products (such as mattresses, ice baths or kayaks) or items that require additional costs or services are not eligible for packs and may require a custom photoshoot. If you’re unsure if your product qualifies, please contact us at hey@soona.co.

We’re excited to partner with you for some fresh, new content! Just ship your product to the soona address provided in the details tab of your booking. You can create a shipping label directly through our platform, ship with your preferred carrier or ship directly from your website. Please make sure to include the REF number! Once your product arrives in the studio, we’ll get to work! You can expect your 3 iStock Product Pack images to be completed within 10 business days of the product’s arrival in our Denver studio.

Our crew is made up of proven professionals with collective experience across thousands of brands and dozens of industries. We know our stuff when it comes to ecommerce channels and what sells where, and that expertise is baked into all our training, outputs, and tech.

We only hire photographers from the top 1.5% of all applicants and have built up a team of specialized stylists in apparel, pet, food, hair, makeup, set design, and more to serve a wide range of brands and production needs.

Most of our customers book their first shoot within 4 weeks of their first call. Most shoots are scheduled within 3 to 5 business days of your products arriving in our facilities.

Not only does soona integrate with Shopify, Amazon, and Canva right out of the box to connect with your ecommerce content workflows, enterprise customers get dedicated account management to assist you at every step from your 1st shoot to your 400th and beyond.

You always have the option to attend in person on the day of your shoot or join remotely from inside the platform via our revolutionary virtual photoshoot. Either way, soona shoots are interactive, collaborative experiences where you'll be able to chat with the crew and give real-time feedback during the shoot. Just one of many reasons enterprise brands love our live studio shoots? They can keep their shoot going in the background and invite as many people as they want, without increasing their costs. So invite your agency partners. Your retail team. Your intern too. There is no limit to the number of seats who can attend a soona live studio shoot.

Enterprise customers get dedicated account management that includes creative onboarding, customized platform setup, and pre-production with our crew to help us learn your brand and your needs. We make your brand standards visible and easy to share across your soona account and content, so they’re not just stuck in a slide deck or, worse, in someone’s head.

Once you integrate your Shopify and Amazon stores, your soona account will also feed in your product listings for a visual mood board of all your approved brand imagery. This serves as an essential onboarding resource, and helps us get more familiar with your brand as you develop more content in soona.

soona works thanks to a combination of logistics wizardry and purpose-built technology led by award-winning creatives and ecommerce industry veterans. Our unique approach puts economies of scale to work to create savings at higher outputs where the traditional agency model would struggle to keep up.

Put simply, we’ve used software to replace the tasks that used to take dozens of emails, spreadsheets and phone calls to sort out. That helps us get to set faster and deliver more content to you in less time—all while building meaningful career progression for the top 1.5% of creatives in our markets.

For our standard membership & enterprise packages: free premium photo editing & video add-ons are included! You may select each premium add-on on your photos or videos during checkout. Any additional variants or revisions after your initial order are $9+ each.

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With the studio pass & basic membership: each $39 photo includes one complimentary touch-up after purchase. If your photos or videos need more custom editing: premium add-ons are $9+ each.

You can proceed with monthly membership or pay annually to unlock savings with payment upfront. We have found the creative platform adds the most value to our clients on an ongoing basis. We offer flexible monthly payments within our enterprise plans.

The $149 studio fee unlocks access to the virtual shoot platform, network of studios, props, backdrops & lifestyle sets. This fee is paid at the downpayment of each booking created.

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For $7 more, the Basic plan includes free studio fees for a year and use of the AI Studio tool. This is our recommendation to get the most value out of soona!

When you log into your account, you'll see all your recent assets at the top of the page. There is also an edits album, a favorites album, an expert picks album, and a my uploads album.

Yes! Start by filling out this form to let us know your editing needs. A crew member will email you to confirm editing scope + cost. After that, receive your edits in 24-48 hours!

When we receive your product, we get you on the schedule for our earliest available date and time. If you would like to be scheduled sooner, you can join our waitlist. Sometimes we have last minute cancelations and can get you on sooner. You must have open availability to sign up for the waitlist.

soona's UGC product can be found at Trend.io. Create a brief and hire creators you want to work with!
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Bundled soona content & UGC packages are available to unlock more savings. Contact our team here!

Select a platform membership to get started. The Standard plan unlocks the most value! When you book, you'll pay for models, styling & services. After your shoot, you select & order the assets you love for $39 each + $9 premium edits (which are free for Standard members).

If you only need 1 booking, you can opt to pay the Studio pass fee for $149 per booking.
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For ongoing content needs, soona's Enteprise pricing unlocks our best rates, dedicated teams & account management.

1. The Studio Pass covers access to soona’s platform to plan your shoot, manage your content, access your live shoot. It also includes free access to all of soona’s backdrops, lifestyle spaces, props & creative talent.
2. It also accommodates small product assembly, simple steaming of products and return handling

Chat with sales! Here are some tips from the crew:
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For 1 shoot per year & access to AI studio to generate new assets each month → Basic plan

‍For 2-3 shoots per year with models or styling, access to AI studio to generate unlimited assets each month, save money on editing, pro services → Standard plan

‍For quarterly or monthly content creation, get dedicated support and account management, save money and unlock flexible monthly payments → Enterprise plans

soona can create a diverse range of visual ad content, including but not limited to:

• Product photography
• Videos 
• Lifestyle photography
• Social media ads
• Banner ads
• Display ads
• Emails
• Text and SMS campaigns

soona’s professional ad content creative services offer a comprehensive suite of solutions to help businesses create high-quality, engaging advertisements. These services include professional photography, videography, styling, and editing, tailored to produce compelling ad content for various platforms including social media, websites, email, and more.

Ad design is the process of creating and arranging the visual elements of an advertisement. This involves layout, typography, color schemes, and imagery to ensure the ad is visually appealing and effectively communicates the intended message to the audience.

Ad creative refers to the visual and textual elements used in advertising to convey a message and attract the target audience's attention. This includes graphics, videos, images, copy, and other multimedia components designed to promote a product, service, or brand effectively.

Start by filling out this form to let us know your editing needs. A crew member will confirm editing scope + cost. After that, receive your edits in 24-48 hours!

We license our background music through Artlist.io. Please browse this platform and let us know the song or soundtrack title and artist once you have made your selection.

soona offers re-edits for all your edited content. You can submit a re-edit request by selecting the photo you’d like us to re-edit, click the “request re-edit” button and then write in the text box what you would like us to re-edit. The additional charge depends on the revisions you wish to create. Here’s more information about our premium photo edits.

We aim to deliver edited content within 24 hours upon receiving your photo or video order. This timeframe can vary. For infographics, the expected delivery time is within 48 hours.

Sign in, browse, and book with models from any city directly at book.soona.co/directory. Or, after your booking is made, you'll go through model selection which will surface the active models in the city your booking is assigned to. Filters are available for basic traits such as shoe size, skin tone, gender, age and more.

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You'll use portfolio photos and model details to determine your top 2-3 model preferences. Then you'll describe any extra model details such as shaving, nail, and wardrobe needs. If you decide to send wardrobe, your chosen model's sizes will be surfaced.

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From there, soona does the rest! We will communicate and coordinate with the model. You get to focus on shipping your product, building your shotlist, or any other prep.

Foot models will arrive with the standard wardrobe options and can feature any combination of those items: from bare legs + feet to long pants + shoes. Any additional wardrobe options (bottoms, socks, shoes, sandals, jewelry, etc.) should be sent to the studio with your product.

Generally, what you see is what you get! If the model has shaved legs in their modeling profile, they will arrive with shaved legs for the shoot. Alternatively, if they have leg hair, you can expect hair on the booking.

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You may, however, indicate a shaved leg preference during model selection. Please note that a model could decide to not service bookings with shaved leg preferences different than what is shown in their profile.

soona foot models perform their own at-home self-care prior to the shoot. All are expected to arrive with well groomed, moisturized, and clean skin + nails.

For an extra polished look or to showcase your nail products, add the custom pedicure upgrade.

the soona Media Editor can add shadows to photos. it can also help you remove backgrounds, change background colors, add a white background, add text, and make other edits to your product photos. 

You can add shadows to photos for free using the soona Media Editor. Simply upload your image and the AI tool will automatically detect where and how to place the shadow. No need for complicated software here!

1. select an image from your soona gallery 
2. upload your image to our free add text to photo tool 
3. add your text
4. download your edited image
5. publish the photo wherever you sell!

yes, you can add text to an iPhone photo. you can do it on your phone, or you can upload the photo to the free soona Media Editor and add text there. 

you can add text to a photo for free using the soona Media Editor. simply upload your image and add your text. you can play with plain text, stylish font combinations, text styles, and more.

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Absolutely! We encourage you to provide feedback to help us improve our AI-powered tools.

Yes, our Business Name Generator is optimized for use on both desktop and mobile devices.

Right now we are primarily supporting English-language business names.

Nope. You can generate as many options as you would like using our Business Name Generator, free of charge!

Absolutely! Our generator allows you to input specific keywords, your industry, and more, to tailor the generated names according to your preferences.

Yes! We built the Business Name Generator for you to use for free!

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