How to Make a Backdrop

Making a backdrop for pictures or paintings is very easy. In fact, you don't have to "make" anything. You simply need to get creative.

Instructions

1

Think about the subject and purpose of your picture.

1. What is this picture for? Fun? Decoration? Romantic Gift? Picture of a product to sell on eBay? Professional reasons?

2. What color, light, and setting will complement your subject.

2

Go through your house. You can use bathroom towels (preferably without designs unless that suits your purpose), you can use bedsheets, large sheets of aluminum foil taped together, or simply a blank wall. If you want to, go outside and find a good backdrop.

3




Once you have chosen what to use as a backdrop attach it to two points at the right height, either with nails or thumb tacks in a wall, etc.

Find a complementary flat surface you can place the object on.

Adjust your lighting, and take several pictures (alternating backdrops if you need to).

*Here is an example of an easy backdrop - in this picture I held up a tablecloth behind this candle while my mother-in-law-to-be took the picture of the candle sitting on the kitchen counter with natural light hitting it from the kitchen window.

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*Here is another example - I set this candle on top of a dark wood china cabinet with a white wall behind and an overhead light nearby. I thought the contrast of the colored candle, the dark wood, and the white wall was very nice.

5

If you can't find anything else you could always check the local fabric store or maybe cheaper you can check the Goodwill for sheets etc.

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Making a backdrop for pictures or paintings is very easy. In fact, you don't have to "make" anything. You simply need to get creative.

Instructions

1

Think about the subject and purpose of your picture.

1. What is this picture for? Fun? Decoration? Romantic Gift? Picture of a product to sell on eBay? Professional reasons?

2.

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. What color, light, and setting will complement your subject.
2

Go through your house. You can use bathroom towels (preferably without designs unless that suits your purpose), you can use bedsheets, large sheets of aluminum foil taped together, or simply a blank wall. If you want to, go outside and find a good backdrop.

3




Once you have chosen what to use as a backdrop attach it to two points at the right height, either with nails or thumb tacks in a wall, etc.

Find a complementary flat surface you can place the object on.

Adjust your lighting, and take several pictures (alternating backdrops if you need to).

*Here is an example of an easy backdrop - in this picture I held up a tablecloth behind this candle while my mother-in-law-to-be took the picture of the candle sitting on the kitchen counter with natural light hitting it from the kitchen window.

4




*Here is another example - I set this candle on top of a dark wood china cabinet with a white wall behind and an overhead light nearby. I thought the contrast of the colored candle, the dark wood, and the white wall was very nice.

5

If you can't find anything else you could always check the local fabric store or maybe cheaper you can check the Goodwill for sheets etc.

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