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Beside a coffee cup Beside a coffee cup Beside a coffee cup

The same scene, three different objects — because what you make is not what anyone else makes.

Beside a coffee cup

Beside a standard coffee cup — a reference object everyone already has a feel for.

Category
Scale and hands
Shapes
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You get
A still image

Send one photo of what you made and we restage that — we never invent an object. Extra angles only help when a scene shows a side your photo does not.

Try it free

The object stands next to a plain coffee cup on a neutral surface, both fully in frame, lit evenly so neither is favoured. The cup is deliberately unremarkable: white, no logo, no pattern, because the moment it becomes interesting it stops being a ruler and starts being a prop.

Use it for things a hand cannot hold convincingly — mid-sized ceramics, planters, printed figurines, bottles, lamps, boxes — roughly the ten-to-forty-centimetre range. It is more precise than a hand, since a cup is a constant and hands are not, and it reads faster than a ruler because nobody has to interpret it. It is unnecessary for anything whose size is already implied, like a mug or a ring.

Photograph the object alone, straight on and at its own height, and let us place the cup. Sending your own cup in the reference makes it a second product; we will then have to decide which of the two is for sale.