Blender add-on · product photography

Studio Stage.

One button spawns a full product-photography studio in Blender — a seamless sweep, a calibrated four-light rig, and a full-frame camera — then hands you curated controls to color it, light it, and shoot your own product. Local, no lock-in, bring your own HDRI. Works in EEVEE and Cycles. This is the how-to.

01Install

Open Preferences

In Blender: Edit → Preferences → Add-ons → Install…

Pick the zip

Select studio_stage-1.1.3.zip — don't unzip it first.

Enable it

Tick the checkbox next to Studio Stage. The panel appears in the 3D viewport's N-panel (press N → Studio Stage tab). Works in EEVEE and Cycles.

02Quick start

Four moves from a blank scene to a finished shot. Everything after is refinement.

Build the studio

one click

Open the Studio Stage panel and click Build Studio. A sweep, four lights, and a camera appear.

Add your product

use my object

Import or select your object, then click Use My Object — the stage sizes itself around it and points the camera.

Style it

live

Pick a background finish, a color palette, and a lighting look. Every control updates live in the viewport.

Shoot

render

Set your focal length and depth of field, then render (F12). Bring your own HDRI any time for extra realism.

03The panel, section by section

Six folds, top to bottom. You'll mostly live in Surfaces, Light, and Camera.

Subject

size the stage

Tells the studio what you're shooting so it can scale the whole rig around it — lights, sweep, and camera move as a unit.

Use My Object
Stage mode: Small products ⇄ Life-size
Refit

Tip: the stage auto-jumps to Life-size when your object is taller than ~0.9 m, so the same rig shoots a phone or a car with the lighting holding true.

Camera + DOF

the look

One full-frame camera — no lens-swapping. Focal length is a live slider; depth of field is a real f-stop with an aperture blade count and curated bokeh presets.

Focal 24–200 mm
Aperture f/0.7–f/32
Blades 0–16
Bokeh presets
Look Through Camera

Tip: Look Through Camera locks the camera to your viewport so you compose by simply orbiting — then unlock to hold the shot.

Surfaces

color

Colors the seamless sweep. Start from a curated palette or go Custom and set the wall and floor by hand; Harmony decides how the floor relates to the wall.

Palette: White · Warm · Cool · Bold · Custom
Wall color
Floor color
Harmony: Same · Complementary · Analogous

Light

the mood

A calibrated key-master rig: set one Brightness and the fill, rim, and overhead follow as photographic stops. Dial global temperature or each light's Kelvin, or drop in a one-click look.

Brightness 0–100
Temperature 2700–6500 K
Per-light Kelvin (key · fill · rim · overhead)
Look presets

Finish

the surface

How the sweep catches light. The wall runs from flat stucco to a mirror polish; the floor is matte or reflective for that under-product gleam.

Wall: Stucco · Eggshell · Semi-gloss · Polished
Floor: Matte · Reflective

BYO HDRI

your own light

Load any HDRI for grounded reflections and ambient fill. Nothing ships with the add-on — it's yours, on your machine, no lock-in.

Load HDRI
Strength 0–4
Rotation
Reflections only
Clear

Tip: Reflections only keeps your calibrated rig doing the lighting while the HDRI just adds believable reflections.

04Background options

The sweep is one continuous surface — set its color and finish and you've changed the whole backdrop. A few of the range:

white polished sweep — **White · Polished**The default. Clean, catalog-ready, soft floor reflection.

charcoal polished sweep — **Charcoal · Polished**Dark and dramatic; the product's own glow carries the frame.

warm sand eggshell sweep — **Warm Sand · Eggshell**Soft, editorial warmth with a low-sheen finish.

teal semigloss sweep — **Teal · Semi-gloss**Saturated color with a gentle surface sheen.

05Color palettes

One click coordinates the whole studio. Custom lets you set any color by hand — these are the curated starting points.

warm palette — **Warm**Golden, inviting — good for lifestyle and food-adjacent products.

cool palette — **Cool**Crisp neutral-cool — tech and hardware read clean.

bold palette — **Bold**Saturated statement color for a scroll-stopping hero.

06Lens & depth of field

Same product size, different focal length — so what changes is compression and how much studio is in frame. Then open the aperture for a shallow, creamy background.

24mm wide — **24 mm — wide**More studio in frame, more depth and perspective.

50mm normal — **50 mm — normal**Natural, true-to-eye proportions. The safe default.

135mm telephoto — **135 mm — telephoto**Flatter, compressed, product isolated from the background.

85mm shallow depth of field — **85 mm · f/1.8 — shallow**Product sharp, sweep melts to soft bokeh. Blade count shapes the falloff.

07Render & ship

Pick your engine

EEVEE for instant, near-final looks; Cycles when you want the last few percent of reflection and shadow accuracy.

Frame it

Use Look Through Camera to compose by orbiting, or set focal + depth of field for the shot you want.

Render

F12, then Image → Save As. Every shot in this guide is a straight EEVEE render — no compositing.

One studio, any product. The rig scales as a unit, so the calibrated lighting that shot this phone shoots a sneaker, a bottle, or a car with the same one-button setup. Bring your product; the studio's already lit.

$Get Studio Stage

paid add-on · one-time · $39

Buy it once. Shoot forever.

Studio Stage is a $39 one-time Blender add-on — no subscription. Buy it, install the zip, and it's yours on your machine. GPL-3.0, EEVEE + Cycles, bring your own HDRI.

Starting Frame annual members get it free, along with the rest of the product library.

Buy Studio Stage — $39 → See what it makes

Starting Frame. — the guide · startingframe.com
Studio Stage · a product-photography studio in one click.