Catalogue stills, one SKU at a time
A usable product cutout starts at the table, not in the net. Put one object in the frame. Fill most of it. Light the object harder than the cloth. A phone on a tripod and a north window beats a 40 MB handheld shot with a busy rug. Peel will not invent a missing corner of a box, a bottle cap that was out of frame, or a label that the highlight blew out.
For marketplaces that demand a white plate, open the white background tool and download PNG. For a theme that composites onto a colour block, use transparent PNG. Do not upload a screenshot of Peel’s checkerboard; that pattern is a preview, and validators treat it as a defect. A lifestyle photograph as the plate is /backdrop, two files, not a hex.
What this page is, and what it is not
This URL is how to shoot and crop one SKU so a 320×320 saliency net can see it. It is not Peel’s Solid control — that preset lives on /white-background. It is not what Amazon, Etsy or Shopify do to the file after you press upload — that recode and alpha-reject is /marketplace. Mixing those three jobs into one article would be the synonym republish Google’s unique-content rule warns about. Keep them apart.
What the net actually sees
Inference is 320 pixels on the long side of a square. A tiny SKU in the middle of a 12 MP still is a few pixels of object and a lot of table. Crop first. Reflective bottles, clear blisters, chrome and jewellery are the usual misses: the net paints the highlight as background and you get a bite out of the glass. Reshoot on a mid-grey cloth or accept a desktop path. White product on a white table is the same miss in catalogue form — the net cannot see a boundary you did not light. That failure mode is also on /limits, because it is a model ceiling, not a marketplace rule.
Shadows and contact with the table
Peel removes the table. It also removes the contact shadow that made the object sit. A floating bottle on #FFFFFF looks cheap in a grid. Either keep a sliver of surface in the original crop (and live with it), or add a soft shadow in your theme after download. Peel does not synthesise a floor, a cyclorama, or a reflection. If you need a horizon line, shoot a real sweep or composite on /backdrop.
Batch work
There is no zip uploader. A browser tab that eats 200 files is a crash with extra steps, and it starts to look like a cloud queue — the thing this product is built not to be. If you need a private batch pipeline that still never ships pixels off-box, that is a different build. The public tool stays one still. Wrapping this page as an upload API is outside the terms.
Walk the controls on the how-to. If hair-like fringes on fabric keep failing, read limits before you recrop the same JPEG twenty times. What a listing form does to the file after upload is a different page — marketplace — not this one.