Templates
Templates make it easy to maintain consistent visuals across your product line. A template captures an entire studio setup — lighting, backdrop, camera settings, and saved camera positions — so you can apply the same look to any model without starting from scratch each time.
With templates, you can establish visualization standards once for a product category, then apply those settings to every product in that category. This eliminates repetitive setup work and ensures consistency as you scale.
What a Template Includes
A template captures the full studio configuration from an existing project:
Lighting — The complete light rig, including position, color, and intensity for every light source
Backdrop — Background style and color settings
Camera settings — Aspect ratio, exposure mode, and lens parameters
Photo bookmarks — Saved camera positions for consistent framing (e.g., front view, 3/4 angle, detail shots)
Video shots — Saved video clip definitions with camera movements
This means any project created from the same template will share the same studio environment, giving you cohesive imagery across your catalog.
Creating a Template
Templates are always created from an existing project. Once you've perfected the lighting, camera angles, and environment for a project, you can save those settings as a reusable template.
Go to the Templates section in the navigation bar.
Click "Create Template".
Name your template with a descriptive title (e.g., "Storage Furniture", "Outdoor Collection").
Select the source project whose settings you want to capture — all studio settings will be copied from that project.
Click "Done" to save your template.
Tip: Spend time getting your source project's studio setup exactly right before creating a template. The lighting, camera positions, and backdrop settings you've configured will become the standard for every project that uses this template.
Keeping Templates in Sync
If you update the studio settings in your source project after creating a template, you can sync those changes back to the template. The template details panel will show when updates are available, and you can click "Update Template" to pull in the latest settings.
Using Templates
Templates can be applied in two ways from the template library:
Create a Project
Apply a template to a single model:
Click on a template card in the template library to open its details.
Click "Create Project".
Choose the model you want to visualize.
A new project will be created with all of the template's settings applied.
Create a Batch Project
Apply a template to multiple models at once:
Click on a template card in the template library to open its details.
Click "Create Batch Project".
Select the models you want to include.
A separate project will be created for each model, all sharing the same template settings.
This is particularly useful when you need consistent imagery across an entire product line — visualize dozens of products with the same lighting, angles, and backdrop in one step.
The Template Library
The Templates page is organized into two tabs:
Glossi — A curated library of public templates created by the Glossi team, covering a range of studio setups and styles.
Your Templates — Templates you've created from your own projects.
You can search templates by name and browse featured templates that are highlighted at the top of the library.
Best Practices
Create category-specific templates — Develop separate templates for different product categories to address the unique visualization needs of each type
Use consistent naming conventions — Align template names with your product categorization (e.g., "Dining Tables — Front", "Seating — Hero")
Start with your most common products — Template your most frequently visualized product types first, then expand to more specialized categories
Perfect the source project first — Take time to get your lighting, camera angles, and environment right in the source project before creating a template
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