As I was preparing all my products for my Etsy and online shops, the photography was the most stressful part due to how mind-numbingly ignorant I am about the whole process. I bought a light tent (after going through 3 or 4 made of cardboard and tissue paper), read a bunch of forums, and finally began feverishly photographing all my items.  I was never remotely happy with the photographs of any of my flat products…especially the bookmarks. As you can see, they are washed out, full of glare, and in an odd angle. In fact, every time I looked at them I felt a bit nauseous.

Today I realized how silly I had been! With a large-format, super neat scanner sitting right there in the corner, why on earth was I messing around with white balance and tents?

So in about two minutes, I scanned all of my bookmarks, where they came out perfect with no tweaking at all. Hooray!

Old Photo

New Scan