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#007 Teardown Tuesday: product images, what your image set really sells (and what just fills space)

Online, people buy from a closed box, unless the images open it up. A teardown: what does an image set have to do to actually sell?

Jörg Dennis Krüger · 17 June 2026 · 1 min read

Picture walking into a shop to buy a product, but it is sealed in a closed cardboard box. You can’t touch it, turn it, or look at it from the side. Most people walk out.

Online, people buy from exactly that box every day, unless the images open it up.

What you will take away:

  • Why a single front-on photo is almost never enough
  • The three image categories that complete an image set: context, detail, proof
  • What you can change in your image set right now, without a new shoot

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