product-image-upscaler

name	product-image-upscaler
description	Improve ecommerce product image clarity for listings, PDPs, and ad creatives so existing visuals become more usable across commercial channels.

Product Image Upscaler

Improve product-image clarity so existing assets hold up better on listings, PDPs, and ad creatives.

Use when

• A product image is too soft, small, or low-resolution for ecommerce use
• You need to reuse older image assets on PDPs, marketplaces, or ads
• A team wants cleaner visuals for mobile-first browsing without reshooting immediately
• You need larger output sizes for hero images, marketplaces, or creative testing

Do not use when

• The source image is fundamentally unusable, badly lit, or missing the product clearly
• You need a full retouching, compositing, or brand-photo redesign workflow
• The goal is to change the product appearance or invent visual details
• Compliance depends on exact visual proof and the source is too damaged to trust

Inputs

• source image status and approximate resolution
• intended use: listing, PDP hero, gallery, ad, social, marketplace, print-lite asset
• target platform or output size
• background constraints or brand standards
• whether light cleanup or crop adjustments are allowed
• any realism requirements or “must not alter product” constraints

Workflow

1. Judge whether the source image can be improved enough to remain commercially usable.
2. Match enhancement choices to business context: listing readability, PDP trust, ad clarity, mobile viewing.
3. Improve sharpness and size while protecting edges, textures, and product realism.
4. Avoid overprocessing that makes the item look fake, plasticky, or inconsistent with the original.
5. Recommend output specs and usage guidance by channel.

Output

1. Source-image quality diagnosis
2. Recommended upscale / enhancement approach
3. Best-fit output sizes or usage contexts
4. Commercial-use guidance for listing / PDP / ads
5. Risk notes if realism or detail integrity may be affected

Quality bar

• The image should look clearer, not artificially “AI enhanced”
• Product appearance must remain trustworthy for commerce use
• Recommendations should connect to actual business use, not image quality in isolation
• Output should help the team decide whether the asset is ready to publish, test, or replace

What better looks like

Better output is not just “higher resolution.” It makes the asset more usable in commerce:

• easier to read on mobile
• stronger for hero placement
• less embarrassing in ads
• more reusable across channels
• clearer about whether the image is good enough or still needs a reshoot

Resource

See references/output-template.md.