posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 8:21 AM
by
Jonathan Hodgson
Producing professional photos of jewellery for a website
A colleague of mine is producing a website for a friend who runs their own jewellery design service as a favour. For him it's a change from SQL Server and C# corporate development; so I've shown him how to mock up the site in Macromedia Fireworks (hint: Microsoft should buy this and use it as the basis of Sparkle their Avalon/XAML editor if the Adobe/Macromedia merger kills it off), Dreamweaver as a better editor than Visual Studio / Notepad. (Note: I'm not a graphic designer, but a couple of years sitting next to one rubbed off!)
So it was a co-incidence when reading this month PC Pro magazine they mentioned a couple of products to help take photographs of objects with correct lighting.
An expensive product called Cubelite and a cheaper version called ePhotoMaker. Ideal if you're selling things on eBay.
For example:
