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Hi Forum Viewers!,
I’m in desparate need of help here… You’ve all seen the product shots on ecommerce websites, the product image is nicely displayed on a pure white background and everything looks lovely. The product has realistic tones and it doesn’t look like it’s been cut out of a magazine and stuck on the page by a seven year old!
Here’s where my problem occurs. I have a mainly white product (it’s an expanded shot of a candle in glass sitting outside the white box with a red rose printed on it) against a white cloth background. I need to remove the cloth leaving just the product and making sure that the colour of the glass doesn’t get removed.
I’ve tried many many things to resolve this issue. I’ve used levels to just lighten the background untill it dissapears (but the white product box disapears at the same time), I’ve tried using blend if.. (in the blens modes dialog box) and the same thing happens. I’ve tried Cybia’s ‘AlphaWorks’ plugin to remove white backgrounds but that didn’t work (displayed similar effect to the levels command).
I even painstakingly cut out the product and manually erased the background and this looked terrible. Even when I tried to apply a little drop shadow. Unfortunately it has to be on a white background to fit in with the website and mailings the image is being created for, otherwise the images look lovely on a black background.
If anyone has ANY advise I would be so gratefull as I’m ripping my hair out over this!
The Tech bit:
I’m running Photoshop CS2 on Windows, Image size: 3864 x 2520 @ 240 ppi An example of what I’m looking to create is here: (the picture of the bed) http://www.thewhitecompany.com/department2.aspx?DepGrpCode=& amp;DepCode=RIFB
Many thanks in advance,
Alex
I’m in desparate need of help here… You’ve all seen the product shots on ecommerce websites, the product image is nicely displayed on a pure white background and everything looks lovely. The product has realistic tones and it doesn’t look like it’s been cut out of a magazine and stuck on the page by a seven year old!
Here’s where my problem occurs. I have a mainly white product (it’s an expanded shot of a candle in glass sitting outside the white box with a red rose printed on it) against a white cloth background. I need to remove the cloth leaving just the product and making sure that the colour of the glass doesn’t get removed.
I’ve tried many many things to resolve this issue. I’ve used levels to just lighten the background untill it dissapears (but the white product box disapears at the same time), I’ve tried using blend if.. (in the blens modes dialog box) and the same thing happens. I’ve tried Cybia’s ‘AlphaWorks’ plugin to remove white backgrounds but that didn’t work (displayed similar effect to the levels command).
I even painstakingly cut out the product and manually erased the background and this looked terrible. Even when I tried to apply a little drop shadow. Unfortunately it has to be on a white background to fit in with the website and mailings the image is being created for, otherwise the images look lovely on a black background.
If anyone has ANY advise I would be so gratefull as I’m ripping my hair out over this!
The Tech bit:
I’m running Photoshop CS2 on Windows, Image size: 3864 x 2520 @ 240 ppi An example of what I’m looking to create is here: (the picture of the bed) http://www.thewhitecompany.com/department2.aspx?DepGrpCode=& amp;DepCode=RIFB
Many thanks in advance,
Alex
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