Using a cool tutorial I found on KMC Designs Blog I cleaned up the backgrounds in some of the white photos I took for my new Etsy shop. Ultimately I want all of my photos to have white backgrounds since I think it will make my shop look more cohesive. I’ve been learning to use a friend’s Digital SLR which I’m using to take the photos, so hopefully I’ll soon be able to do more in-camera adjustments to the photos, and fewer adjustments in photoshop.

Before – pinkish gray background

After – pure white #ffffff
Here’s another one, the spider accordion book that I did an earlier blog post about, but this time with a nice white background.

Before – grayish background

Here’s the spider with a lovely white background
2 Comments
Hello Ruth. Congrats for your wonderful work. I would like to know if you have this paper to sell https://www.ruthbleakley.com/blog/2013/02/rocky-mountain-travel-journal/, or if you don’t where can I find it.
Thanks
Teresa
Portugal
Hi Teresa! I made this paper myself by creating a digital collage of animals and then printing it with a laser printer on brown recycled paper – but maybe I will make the file I used a digital download that people can buy to print their own paper!