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How to get a perfectly white background for stockphotography

1. Use a flash, and a shutterspeed around 1/250 or a bit lower, but usually i use the maximum shutterspeed with flash which it 1/250. Faster shutterspeed then than and we go over the syncspeed for the flash. Use a white background, like paper or a white sheet/blanket. Take the picture.

2. I then import my picture to lightroom (also work with photoshop).
I just increase the highlight slider and sometimes the whites in the picture, and i get a perfectly white background in 2 easy steps.

3. If the background isn't exposure even with the flash, i use the dodge or healingbrush tool to remove the rest of the background if i don't get a perfect background from the 2 first steps.

Step 1 & 2 used here, i keept some of the background here, i thought i looked the best.
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Increase details in you photos.

1. Open your image in Photoshop.

2. Duplicate the image by pressing CTR. + J in PC OR OPT + J on Mac.


3. Go to the FILTERS Drop down menu which is located on the top most bar of the Photoshop and click OTHERS then choose HIGH PASS 
and small window box would pop up, which would give an option to increase or decrease the value slider of RADIUS TO PIXEL. 


4. Increase the Value by sliding the value slider to the right depending on your desired details Click OK! 
you might get shocked at this time because your image must have turned into some absurd grey colored layer. But don't panic here is the next step which would give you the sigh of relief. 


5. Go to the LAYERS BLENDING drop down option which is located on the lower right corner of your PC or Laptop screen. Default mode is NORMAL. Just click the OVERLAY option and there you go. 





Salmon and Pasta
Result of the editing:
Salmon and Pasta
Much sharper images then we had from the start. A very effective trick to make you images sharper.