Crafts by Chris

Musing on polymer clay, beads, jewelry and other stuff.

bead photography – part 3

Posted on | February 12, 2010 | No Comments

So, now you should have well lit, crisp clear photos that shouldn’t require much editing. :) I’m assuming everyone knows how to crop their image to get rid of any excess background.

Here’s my basic cropped image with nothing else done to it.


My photo is still a little dark. I really need to upgrade to higher wattage light bulbs especially in the winter. However, this isn’t a big deal and can easily corrected.

I’m using Photoshop Elements (which is a light version of Photoshop), so you may need to do a search to figure out how to do this on your software. I suggest you look up “adjusting level in photoshop” to get the technical details. I’m just showing the basics of what I do. We are going to adjust lighting –> levels. Click on the photo below to see the full-size version


You will get a pop up histogram box. If you have white and/or black in your photo, you can click on the corresponding eyedropper in the bottom right hand corner of the histogram box then click on the part of the image that is white or black. I don’t usually do this because it tends to over correct.


If you click and hold on the little arrows at the bottom of the histogram, you can slide them over to where the histogram starts to rise. For this photo, I just need to adjust the white to lighten it up. When you are happy with how it looks, click the OK button.


Save your image and you are good to go. Monday, I will share how to crop and resize your image for those who would like to create an ad from a photo.

Category: beads, photography

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