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more content like this now, today I'm going to be taking you behind the scenes
of how I create a seamless product photo like you'd see on Instagram.
So an image like this
and taking you behind the scenes of how I shot this,
how I shoot this, and also the editing process.
So without further ado, let's jump right into it.
And I'm going to show you how
I took the photograph that would then become this pattern .
Right now So this is the set up here
and this is the shot that we're looking to achieve.
We have everything in position.
It's properly exposed and it's just ready to go.
Now, I'm going to start by saying you can shape this shadow.
Exactly how you want it.
If you want it long, if you want it off center,
let's just show that in motion right here.
So, for example, if we move this light.
Naturally, we going to have the shadow moving around.
So if we wanted to have it up slightly, a bit out or down,
we can move that if we want wanted also to elongate the shadows. For example,
if we were to move
the light source further away, we can do that.
And you bring it up
to bring the shadow back in.
Now, the other thing to think about is how dark and crisp
do you want to have your shadow?
Now, this light and right here is a single point LED And it has no modifiers on it.
So it's just a bare bulb as such with a single COB led.
And it's just shooting out one single beam of light.
And that helps you to retain quite a sharp
edge on the shadows.
Now, you don't want to do this with a soft box attached,
because this is the effect that you're going to get.
For example, if you had any sort of diffusion,
it's just going to soften the shadow area.
So you can see the edges are now fuzzy.
So unless that is the look that you're actually going for,
you want to keep the light as hard as possible.
Now, as you can see from this set up, I'm
shooting top down and I'm shooting just on any plain white surface.
Now, personally, I could work with what I'm seeing here.
And again, if you're just wanting to tweak it a little bit more, for example,
you want it to bring a little bit more light onto this shadow area here.
We can just, you know, bring a bounce card in there just to lighten that up.
But as you can see, once we do that, it is also affecting
the shadow sort of shadow is not as dark or as deep.
And now you can darken that back in your editing software
if you want it to, or you can just take a composite shot.
So you take two shots, one to expose for
the fill in here using this card and you take another shot at this
and then you just blend two images in Photoshop.
Now, if that is the only product that you're going to be showing in the
final image, then you're pretty much good to go into the editing suite from here.
However, in this case, we have a couple of sister products,
which we are just going to quickly shoot the same process,
going to replace one for one in the same position in sort of lighting
is pretty much the same, and the shadows are in the same positions,
and then going to take that over into the editing suite.
OK, so now we are over in Photoshop.
We've opened up image here and we see we've got a single layer just here.
And what we're looking to do right now is to isolate this.
So what we're going to do is selected.
One of the quickest ways to do this is using the object selection tool,
just draw around the object,
and that will try its best to select your object for you.
And that's done a pretty good job but what you want to do
now is to go in and inspect this a little bit more
just to make sure that it has captured everything, obviously.
It's trying to compute this edge, but because it's a little bit blown out,
it kind of missed it.
So you can then choose the quick selection tool and just add
this edge here to the selection. Right.
And as I say, you go around this shape and you inspect it, make sure it's
captured everything that you want to capture in there.
So now you've done this.
You're going to select and mask this and you're going to refine the mask.
So that is just go back there.
So use and to select and mask up at the top,
you hit that button and you get to refine the edges on here.
So, I mean, you know, you can just kind of smooth the edges out a little bit.
And I take it up to about five in my case
and about zero point six on the feather so im featheringr the edges a little bit
so that it can blend into whatever background that I'm,
you know, going to put it on.
You know, and you can do a lot of fine tuning within this panel
just to get your selection just right.
But I'm going to be OK with that for the purposes of this.
And now we have a selection here.
Are we going to do is right
click on here and we're going to create a layer via copy.
So we can see what is done if we were to turn off this background layer.
We can see now this is a transparent this is a transparent background.
And that's kind of what we are going for.
Now, you can get rid of your background layer for now.
And the second thing
that we're going to do in here is to do some quick cleaning up.
So I'm using the brush healing tools in this process here
just to go through and just quickly clean up anything that needs cleaning up.
And you can go in on this as far as much as you can, just make sure
you just don't have anything obvious that needs to be removed in this case.
And this is a process where you do it.
You want to do it now because when you duplicate this,
you don't want to be retouching sort of six copies of this
as opposed to just the original one. All right.
So now that I've done the tidying up, and if you do want to tweak any coloring
or anything like that on this, this is the point where you do it.
But I'm ready for the next step now I'm just going to scrap this
as is, and I'm just going to
refine the crop a little bit,
just give it an extra little breathing space around the edges.
And that should do nicely if I press enter it is my selection.
And as I say, if you have more than one different images or different products,
you would go ahead and do exactly the same for those other three.
What I'm going to do here now is just make sure I have that layer selected
and we'll come up to edit and I'm going to define.
pattern So when you go to define pattern,
this dialog box comes up and you're going to name it.
So I'm going to name this as in this case, vitamin C.
I already have one in there. So vitamin C two
and hit, OK. So I'm going to explain what's going to happen here in a second.
So now I have that.
And that is a defined
object that I'm going to use to create a pattern.
OK, so now let's go ahead and create a new documents.
We're going to go up to file
new and you're going to get a dialog box, create a new document.
I'm going to just make this into a square, 1920 by 1920 pixels and create that.
So you get a blank document here where you can start to work on.
All right. So what I'm going to do is come to here and create a new philia.
So I'm going to fill that with a pattern.
So that would bring up this dialog box.
This is one of the patterns
that is already that's a default pattern that comes with the program.
So what we're going to do is select the pattern that we have just created.
And if we were to choose that one, we see that we have a pattern here.
Now, this is where we have to refine this to things that we can affect.
Here is the scale. And this will determine how many.
So if you just set this, for example, to fifty percent,
we can see it's created more.
And you can also change the angles by adjusting this parameter right here.
So in this case, based on the size of the product as well, to make sure
that you can actually see this when it's on, you know, a square Instagram feed,
you want to make sure you have
at least maybe one or two of these bottles in full view.
So I'm going to just take this up at least 70 percent and see what that does.
OK, there we have it.
And I know I'm going to be able to see at least one of this product
in its entirety on that screen.
And you can tweak that as much as you like.
Now, that's probably the most simplified way
or the most simple method of doing this.
And you can actually do this to create a more unique effect.
And like I said, I have two other products within that range that I'm going to use.
This is one of them. And the next one and the third one.
And all I've done is just placed these layers in here and, you know,
sort of line them up on the square where I want it to line them up.
And next thing, what
I'm going to do is group those layers, as I've done right here.
And then I'm a duplicate that group by press Kurmanji
Komanda Duplicate group, if you press back on the V or remove tool.
Then you can just move that group or copy that group.
And you can place it wherever you want. You can of center it,
you know, if you if you like.
And you can create another copy of that and just keep moving these around
until you kind of fill up the square in a manual fashion.
You have these guidelines that you can also use to help you to line these up.
And you would eventually
come to something like this, which is what I've created earlier.
If you look at my layer pounds, you can see how many groups I have
at least 12 copies of the three of them and placed on this canvas.
So what I'm going to do now is to just create a copy of all of these.
What I'm going to do it
do is turn the background off, because I don't want to transfer it.
I'm going to turn it back,
going off and go to the top layer and QIf option command.
And and that will create a new layer of everything that is combine
all of the visible layers will be created into a combined layer right at the top.
Next thing we want to do is create another new document.
We'll go ahead and do that.
That's now called Untitled five.
Got to keep track of this.
So we're going to do
is send this layer, this top layer over here by press and duplicate layer.
And the destination will be on title five, which is what we just created.
So if we go back to Untitled five, now we have this layer.
We can turn it off. We can turn it on.
And that new document has quite a white background.
So now if we were to just zoom out a little bit so we can see what
we're working with, this layer at the top, we can resize that
so that we can have more or less of these products in view.
So what I want to do, because I know
the intention is to place this on an Instagram feed
and it's going to be in a mobile phone screen.
So you don't want to make it too small that you can't really see it.
I want to have at least three of these products in full view.
So I'm going to place that about right there, hit enter.
And that's where I'm going to sort of leave that.
And you can you can see you can position this around any way that you feel like.
What you can also do at this point is tienes
your background color if you don't want it to be white.
You can change that to any other color.
Again, coming in here to your adjustment
layers, you select solid color.
And I'm going to go for
it. Should we go for sort of a light blue?
A really light blue.
Let's go for that.
Select a light blue. OK.
And now we have a new background color in there,
and that is essentially the editing process behind this image.
And that is it for me for today, guys.
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