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gradientcat · Joined: 21 Feb 2012 Posts: 6

Looking for some opinions on these photos, thanks

gradientcat · Joined: 21 Feb 2012 Posts: 6

Here is a second photo, with white background

ruxpriencdiam · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 5:19 pm

the button will have the reviewer thinking noise because of the way that it looks when it is probably the texture, also the bottom is dark and top light so uneven lighting.

The salamander is OOF and could have been isolated a bit better, he is missing some front toes.

kenny123 · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:10 pm

Button: Filter>blur>smart blur 3 pixels/threshold 15
followed by Filter>sharpen>smart sharpen amount 500,radius 0.2,threshold 0:

themightyshrub · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:12 pm

As well as this, you need to make sure your object takes up all of the available space. The point of isolating objects is so that a buyer can cut and paste them into anything, so they don't need you to leave copy space for them.
This is a good example:

There's hardly any space around the object, just enough so that it doesn't look squashed. It also makes it easier for the buyer to tell what it is from a thumbnail. Thumbnails are small, so make your subject as big as you can.

Of course, sometimes it works to leave a little bit of space, like here:

but even then, that's just a composition thing, and the white space is still kept to a minimum.

Cropping it like this would make for a much better thumbnail -

semmickphoto · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:17 pm

If I am correct from what I learned here the elephant is an on white and not an isolation ;-)

gradientcat · Joined: 21 Feb 2012 Posts: 6

I'll definitely keep those tips in mind for the future. Thanks everyone!

themightyshrub · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:24 pm

jeffbanke · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:14 pm

kenny123 · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:17 pm

semmickphoto · Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:54 pm

semmickphoto · Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:55 pm

@ Jeff @ Kenny

Thanks ;-)