AI TikTok Shop Images

TikTok Shop's US Product Listing Policy lets you upload up to nine square images, one of them the main image. The main image must show the front of the product on a pure white background, as an objective, straightforward view of what is for sale. The other images must cover the front, back, sides, details and accessories, and can show features, usage, variations, styled scenes, close-ups and size comparisons, but not two images of the same angle. Every image must be at least 600 by 600 pixels, in color, with no added logos, text, borders, watermarks or graphics covering the product. Only what the customer receives may appear, and placeholders and digital renderings of a product are not allowed.

A separate policy, dated September 2026, covers AI. TikTok allows AI-generated content when it accurately represents the real product, and lists what it does not allow: changing the product's size, color, shape, features or performance; placing it next to people, furniture, homes, vehicles, doors or walls in a way that creates false scale; making a flat printed item look carved, layered or embossed; replacing a toy or plush with a real animal; and adding glow, light, motion or special effects that suggest functions the product does not have.

Listing quality is graded too. To reach TikTok's Good tier, a listing needs five or more images of the main product, fashion listings should include at least one image of a real human model, and TikTok warns against galleries built from a single base photo with only the color or clothing edited. These are the US rules as we last checked them in October 2026, linked at the bottom of this page; other regions publish their own.

Because TikTok does not allow digital renderings, the main image has to start as a photo of the product. Shoot the front straight on, then attach the photo to Mango 3 and say what stays before what changes: "Keep the product exactly as in the photo, same size, color, shape and label. Replace the background with pure white. Front view, the whole product centered in a square frame, no shadow on the backdrop, nothing added." Compare the result with the real product; the model redraws it, and a printed detail can drift.

If the product itself changed, use Inpaint instead: tap Background, describe pure white, and only the background is repainted. Export square: TikTok recommends 1:1, accepts anything between 3:4 and 4:3, and takes JPG, JPEG and PNG files up to 10 MB in its product form. A 2K square from Mango 3 clears the 600-pixel floor several times over.

• Front physical view, whole product.
• Pure white background.
• No logos, text, borders, stickers or watermarks.
• Only what the customer receives.
• Square, at least 600 by 600 pixels.

Plan the gallery as a set of different views, because TikTok does not allow two images of the same angle and grades listings with fewer than five images of the main product below Good. A full set covers the front on white, the back, a side, a close-up of the material or a key feature, the accessories, a usage scene, a styled scene and a size comparison.

Generate the scenes, and photograph the angles. A usage or styled scene built from your real photo is the kind of image TikTok lists as allowed. The back and the sides should come from the camera: Angles can move the viewpoint of a photo, but it can only guess at sides the camera never saw, and TikTok's AI rules forbid images that change a product's shape or features.

For fashion, shoot at least one photo of a real person wearing the item, because TikTok asks for a real human model in fashion listings. Generated scenes can fill the other slots around it.

In Claude, Codex or Cursor, the Product Photoshoot skill on the Mage skills page makes the scene slots in one pass: lifestyle, close-up with a person and carousel shots, each a different angle or setting, with the product's shape, colors and label locked to your photo. Mage's Marketplace Listing Images skill does not list TikTok Shop among its marketplaces, so make the main image yourself with the prompt below.

Each rule in TikTok's AI policy maps to something you write, or leave out, of a prompt. Start every prompt with the lock: "Keep the product exactly as in the reference, same size, color, shape and features." Put the product next to objects of known size in a scale shot, and never let it stand larger than it is beside a person, a sofa or a door. Describe printed or flat items as flat: a sticker sheet is "flat printed paper", not "embossed". Keep toys as toys, and leave out glows, sparkles, motion trails and light effects the product does not produce.

Variants need the most care. TikTok warns against galleries where one base photo is recolored for every color, and its listing policy asks for each variation to be a unique and accurate image. Photograph every color or style once and use each photo as the reference for its own scenes, with a different angle or setting for each, rather than asking a model to paint the other colors.

• Lock size, color, shape and features in line one.
• Show scale only against things of true size.
• Describe flat items as flat.
• No glow, motion or effects the product lacks.
• One real photo per variant.

Many shoppers meet a TikTok Shop product in a video before they open the listing, and the listing itself takes a product video in any ratio from 9:16 to 16:9. Cherry 2 Pro animates a product photo into a clip of 4 to 30 seconds at up to 1080p, with sound, so the same photo that made your main image can open your next post. The AI product video generator and AI UGC video generator pages cover product clips and creator-style videos in depth. The same rule holds there as on the listing: the product in the video should be the product that ships.