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Styling a garment on a slant board

Styling a garment on a slant board - Photoshop Tutorial

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Styling a garment on a slant board

In this chapter, I'd like to share with you techniques for styling a garment on a slant board, setting up two point lighting with studio strobes in order to make a photograph of a garment off a figure. As we go through the demonstrations, I think you'll probably realize that you've see slant board styling before. It's very common, it's often used in catalog and on webpages to sell garments, table clothes, place mats, all sort of things without a model or props in place. A slant board is fairly simple proposition, yet, as you can imagine, is a board that is at a slant. We've got a, a drawing board, that's supported with an ample box and then on top of that drawing board, we're using a, sheet of suede mat board, for a background, I picked it because it has nice contrast with this garment and I also liked the suede texture. There's another benefit to suede as well is it has a little tooth to it. One issue that you sometimes run into with a slant board is because it has, t is at an angle,…

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