Re: Images on web sites

are you asking about the technique to use in taking new photos?

At 05:31 AM 7/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>To the great many graphic geniuses out there:
>
>     I have been a member of the site critique mailing list for a few years
>now and have learned countless lessons on designing web sites. Yet the time
>has come to pick another's brain in hopes of learning something new. I have
>tried searching the archives for this list but have been unable to find the
>answer. If this is a topic that have previously been discusses, I apologize
>for the repetitive nature.
>      I am designing a site that is going to have a catalog with many images.
>However all the images that the client has provided me with have backgrounds
>and do not look professional as a result. I can pull them into Photoshop and
>spend hours and hours cropping out the background, but ... I don't want to.
>So the question is, does anyone have any advice on techniques to take
>pictures to make it easy to eliminate the background? I have tried taking it
>on a solid background but still the shadows always seem to get in the way of
>the background showing up as a solid shade thus making it more difficult to
>eliminate it. Let me know if you have any advice, it would be greatly
>appreciated and save me a huge headache. Thanks all.
>
>Bryan Campbell

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