Author: Foto Solution

3 Mistakes to Avoid When Shooting on a White Background For Beginner

Post author By Foto Solution
Post date July 28, 2016
No Comments on 3 Mistakes to Avoid When Shooting on a White Background For Beginner

white-seamless-overexposed-background_0000

Choosing the ubiquitous for shooting is a thing that is not too difficult for photographers even for beginner. Simply, most of people always choose white background portrait because they think it’s easy to achieve. Simply you put your subject in front of the camera against a white background, preferably with a flash or strobe, and take the picture.

Unfortunately that thought is completely wrong. The best possible result would be an off-white background after you have done some edits. That’s not the only issue though because you’d be dismayed to see unwanted shadows everywhere too. To understand more these wrong for shooting, here are 3 basic mistakes to avoid when trying to achieve a 100% pure white background for beginners.

Mistake #1 The background is not lit properly

The first thing that we need to interest in is the background. The background must be lit with approximately two stops more light, than the amount of falling on the subject. For example, if you want to photograph your subject at f/8, set your background lights to two stops brighter, so the meter would read f/16 on the background.

Note: You need to meter both background lights separately, so that when metering for the main light, you would turn the background lights off, and vice versa.

Your camera settings for all the shots in this setup were: ISO 250, 1/160th of a second, shot at f/8 for Sven, (the background read f/16). The speedlights were set to 1/16th power. If you are using the SB900 Nikon, firing at 1/1 power, not only does it drain the batteries very quickly, but also makes the flash overheat. If you don’t like using Nikon for digital photos, you can use two SB910s and one SB900 were used for this setup. This is great suggestion for your choice.

Mistake #2 Not enough subject background separation

You need to separate them from the main subject because the background lights are brighter than usual. There are two key ways of doing this: flagging and distance

Flagging

You can use anything block to flag your lights; the black side of a reflector, black cardboard sheets, black foam core. Black does not let light in, instead it absorbs light rather than bounces it. It also blocks light from seeping through to places where you do not want it. If you don’t flag or block your background lights, your subject will get a halo effect and look very backlit.

Distance

Once you have flagged your lights, you need to distance your subject far enough away the background and background light so that any spills won’t touch your subject. This depends on your personal preference and creativity. For example, you may want some spill on your subject for a certain look or effect, or you may not.

If you do want some spill on your subject, make sure to run a few tests with various lenses, as chromatic aberration tends to occur around the edges due to the abundance of light. Some lenses are prone to chromatic aberration irrespective of aperture, while others can handle it very well even at wide apertures, where it is most commonly observed. Besides, be careful with the amount of spill you allow so as not to chop off parts of your subject from the spill overexposure.

Mistake #3 The subject is floating

If you do not include some floor shadows, your subjects will look like they are floating on white air, or cut out and pasted on a white sheet of paper.

The best suggest for avoiding floating subjects is to use a reflective surface like translucent white Plexiglas, or white tile sheet, this will help you avoid the bad thing and not affect the result . You can adjust the opacity of this reflection in Photoshop during post-processing, but having the reflection shows that your subject is planted firmly on solid ground.

These some simple guide will get you well on your way to creating professional and consistent images that really make an impression with prospective customers. Hope that they will be useful for you especially for beginners.

Thanks for watching!.

Tags begginer, Mistakes, White Background

Support Tips & Tricks

What do you choice: Natural Light v.s Artificial Light?

Post author By Foto Solution
Post date July 14, 2016
No Comments on What do you choice: Natural Light v.s Artificial Light?

fotosolution-What-do-you-choice-Natural-Light-Artificial-Light-02

A best product photograph need to use many different elements and lighting is one of essential factors to create the success of product photograph. There are two kind of lighting that photographers use to capture beautiful photos: natural light and artificial light. When you use an artificial light source, these can affect directly your product’s color, while using natural lighting for product photos preserves the natural color of the product. And a important question in photography: it is better natural light and artificial light. Each has its respective pros and cons, but many photographers might feel uneasy when trying to replace natural lighting with a strobe.

What is natural light and artificial light?. Natural light is extremely straightforward: it’s daylight. You can work in late morning and early afternoon – the times of beautiful sunlight and these gives sufficient lighting near windows or in the shade. Artificial light generally creates various types of color heat signatures. And the biggest aspect of artificial light is that you can control it inside of your studio. You can control its angle, intensity, distance and hardness while natural light is much harder to control and is affected by numerous factors, to boot.

To understand more about the two kind of lighting, we will discover the advantages and the disadvantages of natural light and artificial light.

The advantages of natural light and artificial light:

Artificial light is constantly available throughout the day and night, thus allowing you to skip planning your shoot around factors like the time of day and the weather has no effect on you. Based on the specific type of artificial light you select, you can even mimic sunlight or moonlight in your shots, giving the impression that you worked with natural light when you really didn’t.

In fact, there are cheaper options available in addition to the more expensive, professional strobe lights. While some artificial lights can be a bit difficult to set up, a lot more are quite easy to use.

In addition, if you want a particular look or mood, all that you have to do is set up the lights, and take photos until you have your results. There’s no worry that a cloud will move in and block your light. This a huge advantage over the fast changing conditions of natural light.

As you know, the light changes from hour to hour and day to day. To create natural lighting for your own photos, you should shoot your photos at the brightest time of day. You can work in late morning and early afternoon – the times of beautiful sunlight and these gives sufficient lighting near windows or in the shade.

In general, morning light is bright and has less color, while afternoon and evening light often has a warm undertone and brings out greater contrast in your images. You can always neutralize the image and make it cooler in post-production if want a cool, dark image.

In addition, natural light costs nothing to make use of; there are plenty of gadgets and accessories available, such as reflectors and diffusers, that do help to maximize results, but even without them, it is easy enough to get beautiful results using natural light, without spending any money.

The disadvantage of natural light and artificial light

Avoid reflecting of your shadow fall because this shadow will hide some details of your product and lost some of it sparkles. Avoid spending times to take your photos in sunset. Sunset is considered as golden hour to make a beautiful photos but use too much, it can create harsh shadows or be too warm for a simple product photo. If you’re shooting indoors, you should put your item in place where has lots of windows. Don’t forget that you can weaken the light source by covering the window with a thin, solid curtain or various types of paper. Be careful!.

Remember that you need to focus on the product – it is the most important things to decide your best photos. Producing a nicely arranged photo of your product in use can be really effective and natural lighting can often produce beautiful effects but you must guarantee the quality of product. In addition, the effects of weather and other people are gone, this solution is not without its own limitations. Window light, while often beautiful for photography, can be quite dim and may require slower shutter speeds than you might like for portrait photography. A lack of space is also a common problem when shooting indoors.

If you use the artificial light, you’ll make a bigger investment in terms of money, time and planning from the very start. Another initial disadvantage of studio lighting is the amount of knowledge you have to gain, in order to start using it. It’s very possible to accidentally take a beautifully lit photo in natural light. With artificial light, that’s next to impossible. To get good results, you have to spend an enormous amount of time reading and practicing. This involves things like new aspects of aperture and shutter speed in relation to flash, qualities of light, effects of modifiers and the dreaded inverse square law.

So, natural light and artificial light, what is the better?. It is difficult to choose and answer correctly this question. In my opinion, neither and both are better. Both are just tools to be used at each photographer’s discretion. Each method is capable of stunning results and you would rather have a full toolkit to use for every opportunity, than miss out on something because you restricted yourself from using the right tool for the job.

Here are some our experiences about natural light and artificial light that we want to share. We hope that you will find it interesting. If you should our support, please do not hesitate to contact us. If you have any opinions as well as any questions concerned about this subject, let me know in the comment below.

Tags artificial light, natural light

Support Tips & Tricks

Tips: How to use Clipping Paths

Post author By Foto Solution
Post date July 1, 2016
No Comments on Tips: How to use Clipping Paths

In graphic design there several ways to achieve good quality image cutouts and today we will present readers way to use clipping paths to make beautiful images.

So, what is clipping paths?. If you want to create a beautiful image that transfers well to other application for text wrapping, you can create a clipping paths. A clipping mask is an object whose shape masks other artwork so that only areas that lie within the shape are visible in effect, clipping the artwork to the shape of the mask. Once the path is created, clipping path is then applied on it so that anything outside the path will be omitted when you place the file into Illustrator. You can make a clipping set from a selection of two or more objects or from all objects in a group or layer.

Clipping Paths will become a useful and necessary tool when we use any photo or photograph or image to prepare a design, such as brochure design, magazine design, web design, leaflet and many more. For example, if you have a photograph with background color gray and need to be used in the front page of your catalogue. You must remove the background of that particular image since your catalogue color is green and have some other design.

Today, we will guide you how to do clipping paths. Creating a clipping path is easy when you have a good path. You can use the Pen tool to create a path around the image area that will become the silhouette.

In the Paths panel, choose Save Path from the panel menu (click the triangle in the upper right corner of the panel) and then name the path. If save Path is not visible, your path has already been saved. Open an image in Photoshop you want to use for your clipping path tutorial (go to the file menu in Photoshop and select open, from the open dialogue box choose the file you want to use and then click open.

Now, make sure that you have selected “Paths” from the pen tool menu bar which is located underneath of the main Menu bar.

Next, you can click on the image edge and drag the mouse pointer towards the next step and release the mouse. After an appropriate distance, again click on the image edge and continue in the same manner until you have completed moving around the image and finally see this “o” symbol. This “O” symbol means you are going to close the path. Click on it starting point in order to close the path.

After you have completed the paths around the image and its closed properly, go to path palette by opening the window menu and select “Paths”. Let’s double click on the “work path” and press enter to save the path and the path name will be changed with new name” work path”.

If you want to test the precision of your path, click the “Load Path as a Selection” button from the bottom of the Paths palette. Next, you can invest your selection with (CMD-Shift-i) (CNTRL-Shift-i) and fill the selection with a color on a new layer and click” ok” and save the file. Let’s take your file into In Design and use the path for text wrapping, layering, and drop shadows.

Photoshop clipping paths are great for creating cutout images. You can refer in our lesson. It is considered as the best way to create image cutouts. We hope that you will find it interesting. If you’d prefer upload them to your favorite photo sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this post below. We welcome your suggestions for titles to add to our collection.

Support Tips & Tricks

Tips: How to Crop Effectively The Images

Post author By Foto Solution
Post date June 24, 2016
No Comments on Tips: How to Crop Effectively The Images

If you are professional photographer, a beautiful pictures requires the good techniques as well as ensure the quality of images. If you feel not satisfied with your pictures, you must find the cause of problem, and cropping photos is one of the effectively solution for digital photography. Thus, what and how to crop effectively the images?

First, you can know and understand what are cropping photography?. Crop the images is just as simple as cutting it down to the size you need for your print layout, then you’re missing out on all that the crop tool has to offer. Using cropping a photo will help you have a drastic impact on the visuals and can even manipulate the way the audience engages with it emotionally. This is usually done in photo editing software, most cameras come with software that will enable this but these days many cameras can also do it within the camera itself.

Crop the images give you a great chance to frame your images and can be used in some of the following ways.

You have to consider some crucial things when cropping:

– You should duplicate your images first. This will help you keep an original that you can go back to later to find a different way to crop.

– You need to take your time when cropping. There are almost unlimited ways to crop an image and it’s worth trying a few of them before settling on one.

– If you want to change the shape of your image this could make printing more difficult, especially you should attend the important thing that is shapes and sizes.

Cropping works best when you’re starting with a fairly large image. When you crop an image and then try to view it at the same size as it was before you cropped you’ll notice that the pixels are large. If you’re using small images keep this in mind or you’ll notice the quality of your images can decrease to an unusable level.

For this reason the ideal is to use cropping as a fine tuning of a well framed picture.

In addition, below we will give you some great suggests for cropping images.

Covering Framing Mistakes

One common problem that face digital photographers are shots that have one side of your subject very close to the edge of the frame, or even have it chopped off by the frame. This can become effects that make reader’s eyes feel quite cramped and not complete. For example when taking a portrait:

While you can never really add to the photograph to put more space around your subject, cropping the image even tighter can take the focus away from the clipped part of your subject and make the image quite dynamic.

Remove unnecessary details

It will get messy if you take out any of the unnecessary details for images that might distract from the story or subject you’re trying to tell. You don’t want your photograph to end up in a lattice of funniest photo bombs, so remove unnecessary the background for anything that affects to the content of your pictures and you might draw focus away from your subject. Let’s pay close attention to the edges of the photo and the areas furthest away from the subject are the areas that the photographer are most likely to have neglected.

People always like adding the cumbersome details to decorate their photos and think that it is beautiful but they do not think that the cumbersome details make the biggest distractions and the eyes are naturally drawn to faces in photographs. Anything that breaks the flow of the photograph or draws attention away from the subject should be on the chopping block.

Don’t be afraid to experiment

Sometimes you need to break the rules to make a bold statement, so don’t be afraid to play around with the crop tool and experiment with different techniques before settling on one design. You can crop the same photo with many different ways and give drastically different results. It will become useful ways that you can experience and find the most effective ways for your photos.

Try cropping at different angles and rotating the picture to compensate, creating a dynamic composition effect. If you try to crop faces in half, this help you create a sense of mystery. Maybe leave in an odd background detail to create contrast with your subject. Don’t be afraid to go off the beaten path and new experiences so long as you keep a backup of the original photo, you can always try again if your experiments fail.

Cropping with different shapes

The advantage of the crop tool is that it allows you to turn a landscape photo into a portrait or vice versa. Changing the size and shape of your cropping field can have a drastic effect on the nature of the photo itself, especially when you play against the orientation of the original photo or you can create many different photos in different shapes. This will help create the variety for your photos and help you can choose the most beautiful shapes for your images before posting.

Using a golden rectangle for images is a often a good choice, but you don’t even have to keep your photos a rectangular shape at all, especially when you’re using them for a print design. Your photos could be circular, hexagonal, heart-shaped whatever works for your design.

Avoid focusing too to your subject

Unless the photo you’re cropping is a portrait, there’s not always a need to make the subject completely centered in the shot. You have to use small details to decorate your photos as well as well your subject. This will help you subject become more special more harmonious before the viewer’s eyes. Let’s remember that the rule of thirds still applies when you’re cropping a photograph, so make sure you frame your subject in the areas that are going to draw the most attention.

There are some basic way to prove the effective usage of cropping the images. Let’s think of the crop tool as an invisible frame that draws the eye towards the most important aspects of your photo. Making the right cuts in your photo can have a drastic impact on the visuals and can transformer your artwork become more perfect before viewer’s eyes.

Fotosolution – our team do cropping, positioning and file size optimization for nearly all the images that we process. By carrying out these processes in a line after isolating and any additional editing), the images are 100% ready for final use. If you should our support, please do not hesitate to contact us. If you have any opinions as well as any questions concerned about this subject, let me know in the comment below.

Tags crop the images, cropping photos

Support Tips & Tricks

WooCommerce: How To Add Colors And Sizes with Multiple Options ( Variations)

Post author By Foto Solution
Post date May 26, 2016
No Comments on WooCommerce: How To Add Colors And Sizes with Multiple Options ( Variations)

fotosolution-Tips-How-To-Add-Colors-And-Sizes-with-Multiple-Options-Variations-03

If you own a online shopping, you have various product and you want to present them to customers. With the technological era, the online selling become a popular and useful methods for sales. To create a website is not too difficult and you can display your products on page, customers can view and update as well as buy easily product online. But if you have many products with various colors and different sizes, if you perform your products follow the usual way, you will waste lots of times. Instead of spending too much time for its, you can do others things to improve the sales by using multiple options or variations.

So, what is multiple options or variations?. Various products is are a product type in WooCommerce that lets you offer a set of variations on a product, with control over prices, stock, image and more for each variation. This can be done several different ways, either using native options in WooCommerce, or via plug-in or premium extensions. Here are we will show of using product type in Woocommerce – this methods allows you to create multiples style and manage the product sales more easily. For example, a dress is available in a variety of sizes and colors.

How to use or setup Variations?

– You need to edit and create a new product, an example below of a various products is a dress.

– You must select Variable Product from the dropdown at the top next to Product Data

– You can see under Attributes and click on Add

– You can add a Name and Value(s) for each Attribute. The Name corresponds to the drop-down menu that will appear in the product page, and the Values are what can be selected in that menu.

-The following example shows how two attributes look for a dress with different sizes.

Size is one of the most common variations you encounter for a product, including small, medium, large and XL customers can choose. First, we will guide you how to add a product in WooCommerce that has different sizes:

– After opening up the Attributes menu, you can add Name of products and here we will add Sizes.

Notes: When you give the name of product, you have the option to have a custom order or to order alphabetically by name or ID. If you choose Sizes, we can order it Small, Medium, Large, X-Large instead of alphabetically. And you have added size, let’s configure the terms of this attribute.

– Start adding your sizes. Depending on your theme and your product, the description may or may not show. For instant, your product you choose, including 3 sizes: Small ( S), Large ( L) or X- Large(Xl) or 4 sizes: S, M, L, XL,…

– Let’s set the default sort order to ‘Custom Ordering’. This will allow you to drag and drop to rearrange the order of the sizes easily. This way help you can see in picture above, it is just sorted with the most recently added term at the top. You should remember that the order of these terms is how they will appear on the product page. Let’s rearrange them by simply dragging the size to the desired position.

– Now the size attribute will be available to you when adding a variable product. Now we will cover how to add a variable product.

You can apply to color of product. Next step, let’s check Visible on the product page and Used for variations, and then click Save Attributes. Under Variations, click Link All Variations, then click OK on the confirmation messages.

If you want to change images of product or continue digital colors and sizes when a visitor selects one of your variation combos, you can click the thumbnail button in the variation and upload the variation image, or select it from your media library. However, you keep in mind that this function only works if your product post is displaying the single featured image. Finally, we have various products with different colors and sizes and especially we can save times for other things.

Fotosolution team – we provide image processing services from an image, we can helps you to create many different colors for their products. Instead of taking much time with each color separately, you can create a products entry for multiples style with our support.

To receive free test sample or products with various colors and size without spending too much times, details of our quotation or any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Tags Colors And Sizes, Multiple Options, Multiple Options ( Variations), Variations, Woocommerce

Support Tips & Tricks

How to make the color correction in Photoshop

Post author By Foto Solution
Post date May 3, 2016
No Comments on How to make the color correction in Photoshop

Color correction is one of the important factors affect directly the result of images. If we have two pictures: white and black pictures and pictures with prominent color, which one do you prefer?. Beautiful images with stunning color will surely be a wonderful choice. So, color correction an image is one of the most common uses of Photoshop. How to make the color correction in Photoshop. If you don’t know the way about the color correction in Photoshop, here some quick tips show you different ways on how to color correct on image. Let’s get started.

Color Balance Adjustment Layer

To get started, you should open an image that you think has a color board. After, you choose layer-> new adjustment layer-> color balance, this gives you information about the pixels in your image. Using the adjustment layer is the best way that it can either remove adjustment or edit the adjustment at the later time.

You will see the appearance of color board to choose, then, color balance box will appear to support your work. Before applying the color balance adjustment layer, I think that you should make a copy of the background layer, then turn off the background. Then, choose the Color Balance adjustment layer option in the Adjustments panel.

Selecting the slider that has the tint color and move it away from the tint color. For example, since the image has a yellow, you want to move the cyan or yellow slide towards cyan to remove the yellow tint. You may also want to adjust the other two sliders to get the color you want for the image. Let’s click on double right arrow at the top right of the panel to finish with the adjustment.

If you want to change the different color, you can always go back in and make adjustment to the color balance properties by clicking on the layer thumbnail. Besides, you can use Gradient adjustment layer to make prominent color.

Curves

With some photographers, curves in an image will an intimidation factor, it will affect directly the quality of image. Don’t worry about this, we will help you adjust the curves. To adjust the curves, you have to click on the Curves Adjustment layer in the Adjustment Layers panel. You will see the appearance of Curves Proprieties Layer.

Notice the drop down option next to the RGB channel. Not only can you change all channels at one time (your image is a combination of red (R), green (G) and blue (B) channels), you can also change the individual channels. If you reviewed the Color Balance Adjustment Layers above, you are also aware of the ‘opposite’ colors of each of these individual channels. The original curve is a diagonal line from bottom left to top right. If you want to effect the reds in the darker areas, I adjust the line towards the bottom left. If you want to effect the red in the lighter areas, you can adjust the line towards the top right.

If you want to remove some of the cyan introduced when we adjusted the Red channel, select the blue channel and drag the middle of that line down slightly. You can continue to adjust the curves in the various channels till you have the color you desire.

Increase Contrast

Using increase Contrast technique will a perfect choice that help your image more prominent. To crease contrast an image, you can use Levels Adjustment Layer. First, choose layer-> new adjustment layer->levels.

The Levels properties panel shows a histogram. This is a quick visual that shows the range of tones in the image. This particular histogram shows a lack of light or white areas. The data on the histogram doesn’t extend all the way to the right, nor is it all the way to the left.

Click and drag the white arrow adjusts the light or whites area of image to the left until it under the right edge of data of the histogram see setting in above image. Click and drag that black arrow adjusts the darks or blacks to the right until it is just under the left edge of data of the histogram.

Auto Color

Auto color is considered as the quickest way to color correct an image, if you need to something quick, use auto color to solve all problems.

Choose Image->Auto color from the main menu, this technique will determine what needs to be adjusted and perform the color correction for you. However, this technique have also some disadvantages and one of them is that you are depending on Photoshop to determine the best color adjustment.

Here are four tips to color correct in Photoshop. We hope you found it interesting. Do you believe that If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us and comment below this post.

Thanks for reading!

Tags color correction, color correction in Photoshop, Photoshop

Support Tips & Tricks

DIY Product Photography: How to change the colors dress by Replace Color Tool

Post author By Foto Solution
Post date April 12, 2016
No Comments on DIY Product Photography: How to change the colors dress by Replace Color Tool

fotosolution-DIY-Product-Photography-How-to-change-the-olors-dress-by-Replace-Color-Tool-01

Sometimes in post production you want change some things of an objects in your photos such as: lighting, remove white background, size or change the colors. When editing images, there will be a time that you will need to change the color of something in the image. Colors is one of important factors to decide the success and the prominent beauty of photos. Each people or customers have a different hobbies and how to choose colors. For example, someone wear a red skirt but other people really prefer it if they were wearing a yellow skirt, so it is so hard to find the best favorite colors for all customers. Whatever the reason, you will need know how to change the colors in Photoshop. Luckily, this process is not as difficult as it may seem!. Today, Fotosolution will help you learn how to change the colors in Photoshop and save your time as well as your budget.

Normally, when you want to present your product, you always prepare a big studio, series of your product and models.

First, you will need to set up your studio for the photo shoot. Your setup can depend on the space and materials you have available. If you shoot product in indoor space, you can attend to use suitable spaces. This spaces need to have many lights, you should put your product in position where are many window or near to window. Besides, you can use light tents for small product photography. It is useful solution for the photo shoot.

You should not forget that set up the camera on the tripod exactly in line with where your product will be placed. Background is one of essential elements what help your product become more prominent. In generally, photographer choose white background for shooting.

Second, if you use a model, it need to be big enough to cover at least the model’s top half. But models are very expensive and can distract from your product. If models are not in budget, you can use mannequin are an excellent alternative. But the problems here is change color dress, it waste many times for your shooting. For example, you want to present your new dress with five or six different colors such as: white, black, pink, yellow, red,…You do not know what colors attract customers to your website or how do colors affect your purchases?. You have to wait a model who wear your product with different colors to shoot. This will make you as well as your work lost many times. Using and change your product for mannequin also waste your valuable times. To solve this problems, Fotosolution teams will guide you and help you dispose your photos by changing colors dress through only representing models.

You can learn three simple ways to change the hues of an object in Photoshop. You should familiar with three basic tools such as: The Color Replacement Tool, Selective Color, and Replace Color. And today, Fotosolution teams will guide you learn about replace color.

The Replace color tool is one of useful tools to change the hues. To start your work by using Replace color tool, you can choose Image->Adjustment->Replace colors. The replace colors tools is helpful tools that help photographer get rid of hues such as: light and dark, dim and deep,.. and change colors. This tool must be applied as an adjustment and cannot be used as an adjustment layer, so, apply to it duplicate of the background layer.

After choosing replace colors tools, you will see this box pop up with many different choices. This tools is going to be used to tell Photoshop what color you want to replace in your image. Let’s click selection with” localized color cluster”, then click the add to Sample eyedropper and then click to select more of the color to change. Color board will appear before your eyes, you can choose right hues through product samples what are available. And then I clicked in the little icon of my image right on the dress. By setting that, it will only change the color you selected. Now, you just play around with the hue, saturation and lightness sliders until you reach your desired result.

There are many ways to change the colors dress like: The Color Replacement Tool, Selective Color, and Replace Color and this post today is that use replace color. Selecting the exact part of the image that you want to replace the color of will make the process much easier. If you have a difficult in use this way, we will continue to show two tools: the color replacement tool and selective color in the next topic. Hope that you as well as readers will support this useful lesson.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us and comment below this post.

Thanks for reading!

Tags change the colors, Replace Color Tool

Tips & Tricks

5 Tips To Improve Your Product Photos

Post author By Foto Solution
Post date March 21, 2016
No Comments on 5 Tips To Improve Your Product Photos

For small businesses, photography play an important role in both sales and marketing. The product photos in website is one of the best way to inform, display and advertise product of a business. Thus, the role of photography is essential things. Basic photographic techniques can ensure that an otherwise worthy product isn’t overlooked. And they need to capture the detail of product to find the appropriate angle because in terms of marketing, photos and videos can enhance user experience and set the tone for a business. Today, we will present you 5 tips to improve and ensure product photos.

If you own a small business, you don’t have many budget to invest your product photos, you feel worry about these. However, to take professional photos, you don’t necessarily need to hire a pricey photographer. Before investing, you should attend confirm the size and nature of your product. If you can’t spare the cash, try some our solutions, we hope that they will bring a lot of useful lessons for you.

Lighting

One of the single most important factors in product photography is lighting. How you light your product will make a big difference and will make your product become more prominent than different product. A small suggestion for you, let’s use natural light, it is the best way help your photos more reality before viewers eyes. If you take a photos indoor, take the time to find out where the best natural light in your house is. That might be your kitchen, near the sliding doors in your bedroom, or under the window in your bathroom.

Take a photo with different angles

If you own a shop online, customers won’t be able to physically touch or handle your product so you’ll want to show them as much as possible about your item to help understand more your product as well as eliminate any questions or uncertainty about the detail of product. And one of some ways to present your product through images is that take photos that capture the product from different angles, showing off its different aspects. Because, simply, different shapes and colors can take different angles. Depending on the nature of the product, an unusual angle can be fun and eye-catching. With many different angles, your customers can check the detail of product clearly.

Background

A cluttered background can distract from the product you are trying to sell. Use either a simple, appropriate background or remove the background all together. So, you should choose exactly background for your product photos or What background should you use?. Most items look their best against a white background, as it eliminates distractions and makes colors ‘pop’. You can use specialist backdrops, tents or ‘sweeps’, which are specially curved to eliminate shadows caused by sharp angles. This will give a clean look. In addition, you also remember to keep the background tidy and remove all distracting elements that may draw attention from your product.

Edit your photos

After you’ve taken your photos, open up your photo-editing program of choice. There are many ways that help you edit your photos. Photoshop is typical example. In Photoshop or other editing software, compare the image on the computer screen to the item itself. You need to check some main details that affect directly the quality of photos such as: colors, textures, retouch, expose,…. For example, if your photo is a little under-exposed or over-exposed or too dark and too light, you should use the exposure slider to adjust appropriately. Don’t go too crazy with it, though, usually a light touch will give the best results. Or, colors of photos is one of the important factors you should exactly control. Color correction is a great way to improve the attractiveness of an image.

Use Proper brightness and contrast

Your product image should have the right amount of brightness and contrast to highlight product details and make your image stand out. Using this comparison is the effective way that help your customer can collate your product in the most accurate way, increase the quality of photos. Moreover, this way will help you customer see and feel exactly the strength of product that compared with other products.

Well, it’s time for you to start taking your product photography and improve them. We hope these tips help you improve your product photos. Do you have one to add? If so, share it in the comments below. Or, If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us and comment below this post.

Thanks for reading!

Tags photographic techniques, Product Photos

Tips & Tricks

How and When to use Light Tents for Small Product Photography

Post author By Foto Solution
Post date March 18, 2016
No Comments on How and When to use Light Tents for Small Product Photography

Beautiful image is an important factor to decide the success of effective sales. But to pass these, it is not easy as we think. Today, we will present you one of useful tips and show you a simple way to a use light tent for soft. If you just own normal product photograph, it is difficult to receive the good result especially when you want to sell online, we should require the high quality product photos. Such product photography may seem simple to take, but this technical type of photography is much harder to do well than you might think. That’s why there are professional photographers making good money shooting top-quality product photography.

A good picture will help sell your product photograph more easily. There are many ways to handle image but one of the easiest is to use a light tent. so, what is light tent?.

A light tent or light box is a contraption with translucent sides that diffuses light coming from different sources. This makes your image nearly shadow-less lighting against a simple and solid background. You can choose and purchase a light ten to build and handle your own product photograph. However, before using light ten for image, you should know when to use light tent?.

The light tent is one of familiar items what amateur and professional photographer always use when shooting product. Using the light tents photography will help them take professional digital photos of products and items easier. Moreover, it will support them filter the light from the source, creating a very even, almost shadow-free light across objects inside the tent. The light tents photography helps to decrease harsh shadows and reflections on shiny objects, such as metal or glass, and gives a clean, crisp backdrop to all items. Its special nylon fabric diffuses the external light, softens shadow, and reduces glare to create the perfect result.

For example, if you want to shoot a shiny items, you should use light tents photography because it will help you eliminate lots of bright reflections. Thus, light ten is useful way help you handle image and the light’s quality of image.

Next, we will present you how to use light tents for small product photograph or how to use effectively the light tents photography?.

Firstly, you should prepare and erect your tents carefully, then place your items inside your tents and in the exact center. Place the lights so the illumination is even. You can try to get a look you want before shooting seriously. For instants, you can also experiment with pointing the lights slightly at an angle, rather than straight on at the tent. You need to pay attention to move carefully subject because directing forward or backward will be affect and change the light and the shadow. Be sure to leave space between your subject and the walls, so that you can zoom in or position your camera to see only the backdrop and not any edges.

In addition, the ambient lighting can affect directly when shooting. You need to choose the exact time because when shooting midday in diffused indoor light and shooting at night with only the lights themselves for light, it can happen many differences. Let’s avoid direct sunlight shining in or at your tent, as it will be difficult to balance such a powerful light source.

You should use a tripod because this allows you use a low ISO and small aperture. Moreover, it will help you get sharp and detailed pictures.

Secondly, you learn way to set up the camera. It is best to use manual exposure and set an exposure that is approximately one stop brighter than the meter suggests to allow for the large expanse of white in the background. In fact, photographs often utilize wide apertures and selective blur to make them look more appealing, while product shots of crafts and handmade goods look best with a narrow aperture to keep the entire item into focus. Thus, you can set up the camera securely on the tripod and use either the 2-second timer or a remote shutter release to ensure that you tripod remains steady.

In shooting process, you can draw some things to consider the exact distance, such as:

– Use white backgrounds, you may get better results around +1;

– Use black backgrounds, you will get better results around -1.

– If a full stop is too dark or too light, try a half or a third of a stop

Thirdly, way to choose best lighting for product photograph. The best results will be obtained by using three external lights with daylight florescent bulbs. However, you can use light with light tent to ensure white balance. If you use a light tent, you should place the two main lights directly on either side of the light tents photography. Besides, you can also set the white balance manually by shooting a white card and calibrating from that image. Finally, use your histogram as a guide when processing and limited use white background to ensure the best quality of pictures. Let’s check the exposure for each setup by taking the shot.

To summary, to get a perfect and consistent white balance with this setup, you should turn off the room lights and draw the shades to eliminate other light sources. This lesson will guide you some way to use a light tent photograph effectively, you can refer. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us and comment below this post.

Thanks for reading!

Tags Light Tents, Product Photograph, Small Product Photograph

Creative

8+ Blog Design Tips To Make Blog Look Attractive

Post author By Foto Solution
Post date March 10, 2016
No Comments on 8+ Blog Design Tips To Make Blog Look Attractive

Blog is one of the most popular social network or is called other name of webblog. It has known as a diary or journal where every invidual can write personal stories, share experiences and lessons in life. To creat a blog isn’t too difficult but to make blog look attractive isn’t a easy thing. When designing your blog, it may be difficult to know what’s most important and how your blog look more interesting in the first visit of visitors. The truth to create perfect blog and is one of the most important is creativity. It’s creativity about funny and meaning content and attractive design. Creativity is working with purpose to do what everyone else is doing in a unique way.

Here are some blog design tips to help your blog become more amazing and more useful before the eyes of visitors.

#1 Guide to start a new blog

Every day has many new and funny blogs because blog is becoming a trend now days. People can start a blog, people can talk about how they are feeling today, they can share their thoughts, they can write about something they like, they can start a new blog to promote your business or none the less or they can create a blog just to make money from it. Thus, the first mission of blog design tips is that creat an account.

So, to create a new blog, what should you do?.Some importants guides will help you have an amazing blog.

#2 How to create an Inspired blog design

Many blogs are appearing every day and to create a special blog what has affected the visitors is very so difficult. So, what should to do or how improve it?. We will give some suggestion to help you create an inspired blog design.

#3 Factors influence the first impression of your Blog’s visitors

When a new visitor comes to your blog for the first time an initial impression will be formed pretty quickly. A good first impression will drastically increase the chances of that visitor returning again, and a bad first impression will be difficult to overcome. Check out these factors to improve this first impression for your Blog.

#4 How to write interesting content for Blog topic

If you want your blog’s visitors to stay for longer and read your content, you need your site to leave a great first impression. Your site needs to look elegant, be easy to navigate, and show off useful and informative content. So , how to write interesting content or amazing topic for Blog?. Below is some useful tips for you.

#5 Tips to select Blog theme

One of the basic building block of a Blog is it’s theme. Theme represent your work and how professionally you are blogging. Most of new blogs, don’t pay much attention to theme and use tons of widgets, use a theme which can accomodate more ads or keep changing their Blog theme at regular interval. How to choose available themes for your blog. Here are 5 tips for selection of Blog theme.

Idefinite blog personal or professional
Use light background or dark background
Select Content theme
Choice simple, minimalist or filled up for content
Find Color Scheme

#6 Add Images To Your Blog Posts

Images is one of the most important factors to make the success for your Blog. Choose beautiful and attractive images is a big advantage to attract the attention in the first visit of visitors. So, the question that we have to answer: why you should use images with your blog post? and how to add images to your blog post?.

Firstly: Why you should use images with your blog post?

Visually appealing
Image Search Engine traffic
More social media share: share your content on social media, it also helps you to drive more traffic from social media sites.
Increase the length of the article
Explanation

Secondly: How to add images with your blog post

Resize the image
Compress the image
Image Suite WordPress plugin
Watermark Plugin
Flickr

#7 Colors can Influence Readers Actions and Make Us More Money

Find colors for your blog design is very necessary. It is one of an important part of blog design tips. A blog has special colors what help your blog to increase clicks, conversion and specially make more money.

#8 Social Media Icon for Your Blog

Do you make it easy for your readers to connect, like, follow you and basically find you anywhere on the internet?.

Find colors for your blog design tips is very necessary. A blog has special colors what help your blog to increase clicks, conversion and specially make more money.

You want your stories in Blog what will come closer for readers?. This isn’t so difficult. Let’s install social media icons for your blog, it will help you develop and improve your Blog. So you need to know how to add social media icons to your blog?. Here are three easy steps to add custom icons or buttons to your site.

Find and create the icons for your blog
Upload your images
Add in your htm code

And we are done!. Let’s share your experiences to make good blog design to help my article become more interesting. Thank you for reading!

Tags Blog Design, Blog Design Tips, blog post, Blog theme, Blog’s visitors