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By: Taking Pictures of Your Crafting Work | craftevolution

Taking Pictures of Your Crafting Work | craftevolution — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:03:18 +0000

[...] My crafting hero Lisa has a great tutorial on taking professional looking photos of your crafts on craftboom.com. [...]

By: vaude.twoday.net

vaude.twoday.net — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:32:15 +0000

beautiful desserts…

I made them yesterday and I edited the photo after reading Lisa Lams tutorial on how to make a professional looking photo of a craft item. I never had used the dodge tool before and I like it really!

I’ve got a problem with the peach-coco-recipe t…

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Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:08:53 +0000

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By: lucy

lucy — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:03:04 +0000

thank you so much! this helps a lot =)

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Thu, 29 May 2008 20:17:48 +0000

[...] has a tutorial on polishing up photos just like this [...]

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InstaHippo » Editable Trackback Url — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:23:29 +0000

[...] Of course how you choose to present your shots is a personal thing and will also be very dependent on the flavour of the craft that you sell. The benefit of having a plain coloured or white background for your shots is that the product is in full focus and there is nothing in the background to distract the onlooker.2 [...]

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Taking Photographs of Your Inventory — Pagan Jobs — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:15:11 +0000

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By: is that you? « two bits

is that you? « two bits — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:02:23 +0000

[...] Photojojo just published a tutorial of sorts about the photography part. There’s also this tutorial over at CraftBoom!, which relies more heavily on post processing. I know that post processing is [...]

By: How to take and edit professional looking photos of your craft | More Free photoshop tutorials,resources and news

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:39:23 +0000

[...] looking photos of your craft Posted in December 24th, 2007 by adobeperson in Photoshop News How to take and edit professional looking photos of your craft … Once you have taken your pic on a white background, in photoshop CS go in to image. 9. On October [...]

By: Tutorials discovered this week « In a Minute Ago

Tutorials discovered this week « In a Minute Ago — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:46:43 +0000

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By: Taking Professional Photos of your work « In a Minute Ago

Taking Professional Photos of your work « In a Minute Ago — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:03:15 +0000

[...] am I talking about in How to take and edit professional looking photos of your craft products Lisa Lam uses a visual journal as a backdrop. Check out the tutorial to see what I mean. The [...]

By: Anna Chadwick

Anna Chadwick — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:50:28 +0000

Lisa, just wanted to say how hugely helpful this tute has been. I took my first “proper” pic yesterday (of a bag I made from one of your tutes) which you can see on my blog. It has made a massive difference. Thanks so much.

By: Lisa Lam

Lisa Lam — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:38:22 +0000

I’m really glad that you liked this post, and thanks for your links and comments

Hi Udi, anytime, it’s a great post!

Sigh I often wish I had a tecchi hubby who could do the photography and editing stuff for me…I’m glad that AL is a good cook though

Thanks for the extra tips Alex & Ryan much appreciated!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:55:04 +0000

Hi all (again),

For whatever reason, only the very first sentence of my comment appeared, so, here it is again- apologies if this ends up as a duplicate post.

Anyway, once you’ve taken your pic on a white background and opened it in photoshop cs, go into image> adustments> curves. Click on the white eyedropper in the window that opens, then click on the whitest area in the photo. This will white balance and brighten your pic. You can keep clicking here and there on the different white areas of your pic until you’re happy with the results. Now click on the black eyedropper and click on the darkest area of your pic- this will intensify the dark areas by making the darkest area a true black. Again you can click here and there on the pic until you’re happy. Finally, though this step might not be necessary, click on the mid point of the graph in the curves window and drag this up very slightly- this will point up the midtones of your pic. This whole technique is very useful even if you didn’t take your pic on a white background- just use the brightest and darkest area of whatever photo you’re using. I do this on every photo I take (and you can click on my name to visit my photography website if you’re interested).

Anyway, apologies for length, but I hope this helps someone.

By: Gaida

Gaida — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:28:24 +0000

Thanks for the great photoshop tips to help create professional images. I struggle with photoshop & whenever I need something done I usually ask my teenager to help out.. which he usually does disgruntingly.

I still find it hard to take a good shot of any greeting cards I create. Any suggestions?

By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:24:42 +0000

I love helpful photo tips! I think a DIY studio will eliminate a lot of necessary photo manipulations, but I have yet to make my own. I still have to do a lot of work with Paint Shop Pro.

Some of my favorite sites however, don’t use the typical white back drop:
http://www.lindatrentjewelry.com
http://www.purlbee.com/ (not the store site, but their blog)
http://www.helloyarn.com/shop.php and her blog too!
http://heatherbailey.typepad.com/heather_bailey/
http://brooklyntweed.blogspot.com/

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:23:30 +0000

Firstly, thanks, girls, for the compliment.
I think my photos are apt to show handmade things or other items on my blog, but I would take different ones if they were for a shop. Then I’d probably prefer those with a white background to focus on the goods.
I use Lightroom or Gimp for my rainy day grey skies photos. Also I take a lot of pictures of one object and often choose completely different ones than I thought would be the favourites… try new angles, details or more unusual setups. But again, those are photos for blogging, not selling. For selling I would go for straight forward/honest/without frills to make clear what you get for your money.

By: Silvia

Silvia — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:15:54 +0000

Wow! Thanks!

By: Meg

Meg — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:32:58 +0000

Yippidee doo-dah! This is just what I was looking for. Thanks for the tips!

By: liz

liz — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:21:28 +0000

This blog is going to be so useful for me i can see it!! Mitch does all my photography but we rarely use photoshop ( no excuse either I am a MAC user) will be trying this out when I get round to vamping up my site again. Thanks!