When you’re taking product photos for e-commerce or other purposes, you need a plain seamless background that highlights your product or subject. So how do you create a perfectly seamless backdrop from top to bottom and left to right without any major studio equipment?
Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda from PiXimperfect has come up with a handy tutorial that shows you how to use masks, gradients, and blend modes to create a seamless background in Photoshop. Learn how to replicate the background from your original image, and make your composition look realistic with lights, shadows, noise, and other elements. Watch below.
00:30 – Selecting the subject
01:12 – Selecting the shadow
01:49 – Creating the background
02:58 – Blending the shadow
05:50 – Perfecting the background
11:35 – Adding text behind the subject
Download sample image shown in video.
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