About this recipe
Drop shadows are the line between amateur and retail-grade product imagery. This recipe adds clean, natural drop shadows to every product on a neutral background — depth, dimension, and polished studio look — ready for catalog, PDP, and marketplace use, no manual shadow work needed.
Use cases
- Add drop shadows to products at scale
- Polish catalog imagery for retail standards
- Skip manual shadow work in design tools
- Standardize shadow treatment across SKUs
- Refresh legacy product shots with depth
Tips for best result
- Works on most product categories
- Use clean inputs for sharpest shadow output
- Shadow intensity is configurable in settings
- Batch your full catalog in one upload
- Pair with Square Catalog Crop for full polish

