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Artisan Crafts Photo Edit Tute
Published: 2008-03-30 19:47:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 51802; Favourites: 695; Downloads: 0
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I wasn't sure which category to put this in photography or artisan crafts. So I placed it in photography.
Here is how I edit my images to get them ready for DA, I hope this is able to help some of you. ^_^ WARNING: this thing is pretty big.... This isn't a step by step tutorial but it has information about: 
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You're more than welcome. Photo quality really hurts the work of a lot of crafters. By brightening up the photo it makes it pop-out more and get more attention. I ee so many amazing works on DA get ignored because their photos are dull.
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I've been searching for this for an hour, I guess xD
Thank you so much, it helped me to do this [link]
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This is helpful, but... I don't understand why this is a daily deviation over.... you know.... art? Good tutorial though. Helpful.
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The whole resources and stocks gallery has its own set of GMs, so featuring a tutorial is not taking the place of something else. Giving it a DD also helps it get exposure, so more artists can see it and improve their own work.
Besides, many of us consider tutorials to be art too, because you have to consider how the images and text work together, the flow, what makes it easier and more pleasant to read, etc. Making a good tutorial is very time consuming and requires a lot of artistic skills.
Finally, the artist herself (~chat-noir ) didn't request the DD, so I think that you should have addressed this question to the GM that featured it, ^shelldevil or the person that suggested it, =Romaji . You may also find this FAQ entry helpful: FAQ #873: What do I do when I disapprove of a Daily Deviation feature?
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Softening the shadows would help as well given you have such a high contrast + brightness setting to the image. Doesn't look right with such high light and large dark shadows.
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For whites and contrast, i usually just do a basic S-curve in curves. Whites up, darks down. Lazy, but you can get good at it.
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Very nice. Brings the quality up enough so people know what they're looking at without promising more than the reality of the product.
By the way, these earings are amazingly made as well. ^^
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I really need to do this with my pics.
Thanks for taking the time to make this! It'll definately help me!
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... or you could improve your setup before taking the picture for even better results. DIY-lightboxes are easy to make, cheap and the results are amazing: [link] I use one of these for almost all of my studio macro shots
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I was about to point that out.
Just using a lamp to have decent lighting at all would help a lot I:
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I really like this, but could you do a tutorial for GIMP for us poor folk?
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I think gimp has similar features such as levels and curves, you can try playing around with gimps features. I don't really remember though sorry, I only used gimp once or twice.
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Yeah, I did find that out a month or so after I posted that. I'm pretty well off with GIMP now. But thank you.
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THANKS SO MUCH!
I always wanted to know how you all do this! *_*
thanks!
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I loooooooooooove you
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I am so glad you can use it
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I'll try it for my next submission! I already use the Levels thing on Photoshop, plus Brightness/Contrast, but I think I'll get even better results with this tutorial
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Thanks for making this!
My sister uses photoshop much more than me, so I'll probably have to ask for her help. I've made some polymer clay earrings, and I couldn't get them to look nice in photos but this will help me out so much!
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I am glad you can use it, Photoshop can be intimidating at first but it is rather easy once you get the hang of it. (sorry for responding so late 
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No problem! I am learning slowly, and this is really helping me!
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I added your great tutorial to our tutorial section - [link]
Thank you for sharing.
//*Ninina-nini
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Thank you very much. 
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Your wonderful Resources have been featured here.[link]
Thank you for providing the gallery with such awesome Resources.
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Thank you very much for featuring my tutorial. DA has so many wonderful resources.
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Yes they do and thankyou for making yours available to us
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Hello
Your Tutorial is being featured on my News Article right here [link]
Thank you so much for sharing
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Thank you so much for the feature.
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This is a really handy tutorial. I also photograph my items on a white background most of the time, though I set my camera's white balance and brightness to give me a white background from the off, but this is a great bit of post-processing if you can't set your camera up to maintain full colour on a pure white background.
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That is a handy feature, I think a lot of cameras come with white balance now-a-days.
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This is a great tutorial
Thank you!
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I am so glad you were able to use this, lighting is a bit tricky but it really makes the photograph.
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