Consistent Guideline for Product photography

Hi everyone!

I'm working on streamlining our workflow for photographing ceramics. Each piece varies in shape, size, and color, so I'm trying to find the most efficient way to achieve consistent images. While we’ve managed to get the results we want, it feels like there are a lot of unnecessary steps involved.

Currently, we’re editing each image at 620x620 pixels and using a manual Photoshop guide to measure 50 pixels from the bottom. I’ve been trying to find a way to automate this with an action, creating a template or overlay that I can click and adjust each image without doing it manually. The main part of our editing process is cropping the image.

We’ve recently updated our website, so we’d like to improve the resolution of our images. Since 620x620 is too low, we’re considering 1200x1200 as a better size. (Let me know if anyone recommends a different size.) To maintain consistency, that means we now need a 97-pixel guide from the bottom.

I’d love to find a simple and accessible way to create this guide and speed up my workflow.

I’m open to completely reworking my process, as long as I can still achieve the same results.

I’d appreciate any solutions or suggestions!