Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Photographing your Artwork

Photographing your Artwork

1. Start with good lighting

Photographing with your artwork in natural light


Sometimes you can’t see the artwork because of glare and reflections

Placing your painting on the floor by an open door will give you good illumination, even on a rainy day!

2. Make sure your camera is parallel with your artwork.
Standing over the painting and holding the phone/ camera directly PARALLEL  above it



Crop out the unnecessary background 


 You can also hang the artwork on a wall

One of the simplest mistakes artists make photographing their art is failing to align themselves straight-on with the artwork, thus distorting the shape of the artwork.
The number 1 is a great photo with no distortion.
The number 2 and number 3 are distorted.

3. Make sure it's focus: blurred images will make your photographs unusable. 

4. Cropping borders and rotating if necessary

Please crop out the unnecessary background.


How to use Google slide to crop out the image and adjust the brightness of the photo.