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Create a dynamic setting

Create a dynamic setting - Photoshop Tutorial

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Create a dynamic setting

- Many products look fantastic against white. You put just about anything on a white table with a white backdrop, and it's gonna look great. But of course there are times when adding something a little bit more than white, will make it a bit more interesting. Take for example this purple tea set that I have here. This is purple clay, and I already have the camera all set up. And you can see here, if we're looking through the camera itself what that shot looks like. That's pretty nice, but let's spice it up a little bit. I'm gonna change out the floor itself, the ground that it's on, so instead of having this pure white we're gonna put something with a little bit of color to it. And then we're gonna add some props to it to make it look just a bit more interesting. So we'll start by getting rid of this plain white background here. Underneath this I have a piece of wood. It's actually something called a door-skin. It's a very very thin piece of plywood that I've stained into this…

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