Retouching is the process of getting an image ready for final presentation. This can take a variety of techniques and process, can be very subtle or dramatic but every image that you see used in advertising have undergone some retouching or digital enhancement such as dust [...]

Reflective surfaces, like white tables, can be used in product photography to create attractive reflection shadows. When done well, it can give your product images a slick professional feel.Most studio setups that can create reflection shadows aren’t attractive, possessing hard lines and inconsistent color, so you’ll likely [...]

Creases are here to haunt you. Samples pick up creases when being shipped, stored, and styled. You can empty the reservoir on your steam wand over and over, and some creases and wrinkl es will still show up when photographed. Removing them in post-production is like having [...]

A drop shadow in product photography is a shadow that appears beneath an object, as if it was photographed from above, giving it an elevated floating appearance. In our study of seven million edited product images, drop shadow was the second most common type of shadow  [...]

If there’s one thing that’s true when it comes to eCommerce, it's that the perceived value of your products and the trustworthiness of your business is often judged by the quality of your website. And a big part of having an attractive website these days also [...]

Lights have color. “Color Cast” is an undesirable tinting of the color of your product due to lighting conditions. You can prevent color cast during product photography with properly configured white balance  settings and a grey card, but if mistakes are made you can remove color [...]

Not all of our images are the exact size we need them to be, so it's important to understand how to properly resize an image and how resizing works. When an image is resized, its pixel information is changed. For example, an image is reduced in [...]

Clipping path is a closed vector path or shape, typically drawn with the pen tool to cut-out desired image from its background. In one-word clipping paths means isolating the background from an image with the help of Photo Editing software. The point when clipping path is [...]

Photo Editors are essential tools that can transform an image from ‘normal and boring’ to ‘Amzing and Interesting’. But unfortunately many still perceive image editing to be a daunting and exhaustive task. First of all, undoubtedly Adobe Photoshop is the king of all photo editors out [...]

As an e-commerce business, you need to make sure that you give your customers the right impression of your products. As they can’t see or touch them in real life, it’s essential that your product shots display your products in the best and clearest way possible. [...]

Professional product photography is challenging and requires advanced skills. Not everybody will get a chance to work in a professional studio and experience the actual process of both taking and editing pictures. Many of you will probably decide to play with product photography at home, which [...]

Removing the background from a photograph can be a really tricky task, particularly if the subject you want to cut out has lots of hair, or if the background is exceedingly complex. Here, we take you through the process of removing a background from an image [...]