These four photographs will show you a typical studio situation where the clients needs are facilitated by the use of digital manipulation and clipping path editing. Here is the set up of the shot with the camera tethered to the computer to allow for the movement of lights and to get perfect sharpness. Please click the next button below to continue.
This image show what the camera captured before any editing has taken place. In order to get a useable image here all that would be potentially needed is to remove the stand used to prop the bike up and extend the grey background to hide the stands. However, in this instance and in most cases, a little more is needed. Please click the next button to move on.
Here is the bike once the background has been removed using clipping path editing. A lot of the time this can be the final stage if the client is only after their product on a white (or any single colour) background. However, it is possible to go quite a bit further so please click the final button to see the last picture of the sequence.
Here is the final image. You'll notice a distinctly different background has been used to illustrate the point, but you will also notice the shadow on this background is the same as the one on the real background. This technique allows for the product and its shadow to be put on any background the client may like and in fact they can be supplied with a file that will allow them to do this at their leisure, or revert to the white version from the frame before.
