Sunday 29 March 2015

How to photograph jewelry items properly

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Jewelry is an extremely delicate piece of item to photograph. A photographer needs to have deep knowledge in this area in order to be a good jewelry photographer. You might have the latest top of the line professional SLR or digital SLR camera, you may have proven track record in wedding photography or other portrait or landscape photography. Still you might suck at a jewelry photographer.

Shocked? Well, you need not be. Once I explain how it is to be a good jewelry photographer, you will easily understand what I mean and how true it is.

I started by saying jewelry being the most delicate piece of item you can ever shoot. Reason it is delicate because there are so many different types of metal like white gold, yellow gold, silver, starling silver, brass, bronze and what not. At the same time there are so many different types of stones as well as every single stone has its own characteristics.

While some stones will require center focused lighting arrangement, other might need the lighting to be evenly distributed to catch the proper color and show the real clarity. Improper lighting will make the jewelry items look dull and not suitable for any web shop.

A good jewelry photographer will understand what type of stone will require what type of lighting. A good jewelry photo make the job lot easier for the jewelry photo editing person retouch the photo easily and quickly. This at the end end up saving cost. While a poorly taken jewelry photo will make the jewelry photo retoucher spend lot more time on retouching which will drive up the cost of jewelry photo editing. If you therefore need to hire jewelry photographers for your product photo, make sure they know what they are doing.

Even if you are a good jewelry photographer, you will find the need of having your jewelry photos edited so that they can be suitable for posting on the web shop or catalogs. Difference being, a good photo will work as a good base and will take less time in editing.


Thursday 19 March 2015

Amazing things you can do with Photoshop

Photoshop is so capable that it may seem like magic to someone. It is a highly sophisticated raster image manipulation, editing and designing software that is mostly used by professional designers and editors. Today we are going to know some of the most amazing features of Photoshop. 

Extracting particular objects from an image

If you want a specific object in an image use it separately, you can easily do that with Photoshop’s background removal process. With background removal feature you can extract any part of object of an image and save. Basically what you do here is you keep a specific object of an image and delete the rest without keeping any trace. So with image background removal process you can have a photograph the way you want it to.

Straightening or free transformation of image

You can modify an image any size and shape you want with Photoshop’s free transformation feature. You can keep the original aspect of the image or distort it as you see it fit. When you reshape an image there could white space left in the background. You can get rid of that too using the patch tool and leave no trace of resizing.

Add new background to the image

As told before, you can delete the background of an image using the background remove feature. But you can’t just leave the extracted object without any other background to company it. You need to add a new background to fulfill the purpose of extracting. With the help of Photoshop, you can easily add a new background or add any abstract design the make an awesome looking art work.

Video editing

This may seem a bit odd but with Photoshop you can do a bit of video editing. But you are going to need the newer versions of Photoshop to do that. You can add image, text and different filter to a video to make a mishmash of video and photography. This is especially helpful for videos where you want to add some extra feature to make it look cool and for those videos that is needed for presentation.

Logo designing

This is one of the most important aspects of Photoshop. Logo designing is now a great profession to earn your livelihood. That is why logo designer are now taking Photoshop as their primary tool of working to create some stunning looking logos.

Sunday 1 March 2015

Applications of Photoshop

More or less every one of us heard about Photoshop. As for general knowledge, we know that it is a photo editing software. But few of us know about the actual use of Photoshop and who uses Photoshop and why. We are going to take an in-depth look at Photoshop today.

Photoshop is photo editing and manipulation software which is mostly used for digital designing. For example, Photoshop is mostly used for graphic designing, photo editing, fashion designing, photography etc.

Photoshop for graphic designing

Photoshop is the number one tool for graphic designers. With Photoshop, graphic designing has reached to a different level which could never be achieved without the use of Photoshop. Photoshop can help graphic designers to bring their vision to reality.

Digital photography

Photoshop is now being used by professional photographers who use it to fine tune their images and add different effect to their photographs to make it lively. Ghost mannequin photography is now very popular due to the use of Photoshop. With Photoshop’s ghost mannequin technique, mannequin photographer can easily create a photograph where all the aspects of a garment can easily be shown.

Photoshop for animation

With Photoshop you can create dynamic animated artwork and designs. By using Photoshop, you can also create animation of a real person.

Use of Photoshop in fashion designing

Fashion designers need to draw sketch of their designed dresses and patterns. Photoshop can make this process very easy for them. You can draw sketches with Photoshop and manipulate different aspect of your design easily.

Photoshop for forensic purpose

That may sound a bit weird to you. What can Photoshop do in case of forensic work? When a crime happens, police usually take a lot of photographs of the crime scene for evidence purpose. With the help of Photoshop, the images can be enhanced to find out subtle things on the photograph.

Photoshop for publishing work

Photoshop is very useful for publishing work. Designing the page layout, cover page etc. are done by Photoshop to make a book look more attractive. Apart from that, newspaper, catalogue, magazines etc. are all designed by Photoshop. 



Illustration work

Though illustration work is mostly done with adobe’s another creation called illustrator but Photoshop can also do some illustration work.

Conclusion

This is a brief overview of Photoshop’s applications. There are lot more you can do with Photoshop. Application of Photoshop is only limited by your imagination.