flat-lay-compositionlisted

# Flat-Lay Composition Flat lay — everything laid out and shot from directly above — is the workhorse format for social and secondary listing images. It's also where generated imagery is unusually reliable, because a top-down view has no perspective to get wrong and no occlusion to invent. The difficulty is composition. A badly composed flat lay looks like a spilled drawer. ## Why it generates well | | Angled product shot | Flat lay | |---|---|---| | Perspective errors | Common | **None — orthographic** | | Occlusion invention | Common | Minimal | | Contact shadow | Must be right | Simple, directly beneath | | Reflections | Complex | Mostly flat | | Depth cues | Needed | Not needed | That makes flat lay the safest generated format for a product that isn't reflective. Fewer things can go wrong. ## The call ``` generate_image( model="flux-2-pro", reference_images=[PRODUCT_REFS], prompt="The same bottle laid on a pale linen surface, shot from " "directly overhead, perfectly perpendicular. Arranged with " "a sprig of eucalyptus at the upper left and a folded linen " "cloth at the lower right, generous negative space in the " "upper right. Soft diffused daylight from the left, gentle " "shadows falling right. Product unchanged.", aspect_ratio="1:1", seed=8812 ) ``` **"Directly overhead, perfectly perpendicular"** is the clause that matters. Without it the model produces a near-overhead angle with slight perspective, wh