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How do you take picture of jewelry with white background?

04 Oct 2008

4 Oct, 2008  photo jewelry making

i am trying to sell jewelry on amazon and they require all jewelry photos to have perfectly white background. I use my good ‘ol point and shoot to take my photos and they come out really well in terms of details. However, I just can’t seem to make the background white enough. I use Photoshop Element to edit my photos. Can anyone help me how to perfect this? Any help would be appreciated.

White balance is key, as ALT said.

But, have you tried putting the piece on a light source? Check these out:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/1296244675/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/412244168/

Read the captions under the photos to see how I did it.

If you are CLOSE, you can adjust the white point using levels.
Open the levels dialogue - [CTRL]+[L]
Click on the white dropper
Click on the background that you want to show as white
Voila!

If this blows out the detail in your piece of jewelery, just hit “reset” and move the highlight slider to the left to see how white you can make the background without ruining your image.

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5 Responses

  1. Haley♥

    2008 Oct 04 1

    post a pic of the jewerly if you want i can get a perfectally white backround for you… let me post one of my pics and yeah just email me at

    believer125@yahoo.com

    http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=Wgdt%2BeiJikNl5IVO0aarug%3D%3D

    btw i am willing to help anyone just email me
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  2. queenie

    2008 Oct 04 2

    I also have the same problem I can’t get the background white enough for my jewellery shots so I end up using white bucket fill on photo impact which is a bit fiddly and not very effective so I also hope someone comes up with a better solution :)
    I also bought a light tent which was ok, not great though as it’s still not plain white as all the texture in the tent material shows up in the photos.
    References :

  3. Jessie

    2008 Oct 04 3

    use the magic wand tool in photoshop to select the background, than adjust the expose/white balance settings.
    References :
    professional photoshop user.

  4. ♣ALT

    2008 Oct 04 4

    My suggestion would be to prop a white poster board against a wall (half on the floor, half on the wall-do not bend it) and set up at least three different lights; one on either side of the poster board and one on top. When you take the picture, make sure you are using the right white balance. If you are using regular light bulbs, you want your camera set on tungsten. After you take the picture, open it up on photoshop and use the “dodge” tool to remove any of the spaces that have shadows or other textures that you do not want. You can use the regular “lasso” tool to remove larger areas.
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  5. Sam

    2008 Oct 04 5

    White balance is key, as ALT said.

    But, have you tried putting the piece on a light source? Check these out:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/1296244675/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/412244168/

    Read the captions under the photos to see how I did it.

    If you are CLOSE, you can adjust the white point using levels.
    Open the levels dialogue - [CTRL]+[L]
    Click on the white dropper
    Click on the background that you want to show as white
    Voila!

    If this blows out the detail in your piece of jewelery, just hit “reset” and move the highlight slider to the left to see how white you can make the background without ruining your image.
    References :


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