Have you tried the new AI tools in KeyShot Studio yet? Now available in Studio 2025.2, AI Shots gives you three new ways to amplify your creativity — whether you’re exploring styles, building scenes, or dreaming up what’s next. Everything runs locally and fits right into your existing workflow, with you in full control.
Prompting tips for AI Shots in KeyShot Studio
Be specific
Like with any AI tool, the more specific your prompt, the better your results. Whether you’re using Restyle, Imagine or Background modes, KeyShot Global Training Specialist Don Tuttle recommends focusing your prompts on mood, material, lighting and setting:
- Use real-world material names, e.g. matte black resin
- Describe lighting quality, e.g. soft daylight, studio spotlight
- Include emotional tone, e.g. luxurious, playful, clinical
- Keep prompts simple and specific: 3-4 elements max
AI Shots Prompts and Examples
Take the examples below: KeyShot Senior Product Designer Dries Vervoort prompted Background Mode in AI Shots with the following instructions, to show the bonus option for the PANTONE Dualities Rendering Challenge.
Sophisticated abstract backdrop with stable ground plane fully supporting any placed products, constructed entirely from precision-engineered mechanical lattice structures, neutral color palette of brushed aluminum, matte black engineering plastics, and polished white polymer with subtle metallic accents, interconnected hexagonal and cubic cellular framework forming the complete background architecture with machined precision and smooth surfaces, refined studio lighting with soft shadows highlighting mechanical lattice geometry, premium industrial aesthetic, professional product photography setup, engineered plastic and metal finish surfaces, ultra-clean composition with breathing room for product placement.
Sophisticated abstract backdrop with stable ground plane fully supporting any placed products, featuring flowing liquid metal landscape with fluid metallic terrain, neutral color palette of mercury silver, chromium, and polished steel with mirror-like reflections, interconnected fluid formations and seamless metallic valleys with organic metal flow, refined studio lighting with soft shadows highlighting liquid metal topography, premium futuristic aesthetic, professional product photography setup, liquid metal finish surfaces, ultra-clean composition with breathing room for product placement.
If you’re struggling to write a thorough-enough prompt, you can ask CoPilot or any other AI tool — like this KeyShot-specific one created by Don — to write a prompt that needs to be understood by an AI image generator. You can even throw in an image if that has the texture or appearance you like and request the tool to describe it so that an AI image generator will understand it. (Thanks to Oscar Rottink for sharing this tip with the KeyShot Luminaries community!)
In Background Mode, instruct the AI to fully support the placed object
As you’ll notice in the examples above, Dries made sure to include clear instructions regarding object or product placement. He included these instructions twice, at the beginning and the end of each prompt.
If you’re still struggling to get Background Mode to position your object correctly, KeyShot Product Manager Jan Simon advises using Restyle Mode instead and applying the image as a backplate. This way, only the background of the restyled image will show.
