>>7344525>Nah, I just waited for a cloudy day and took some photos. What photo editor did you use to change that?I'm using an old copy of Adobe Photoshop CS4, but any decent image editor like GIMP should have a Levels tool. The Levels tool is great for taking pictures in front of black backgrounds (or white, in some cases) because you just use an eyedropper to pick a pixel, and the program automatically changes every pixel that's darker than the one you selected to black. In this photo, I selected a pixel in the lightest part of the background, which changed everything darker than that to black.
From there it's just a few tweaks of the vibrance, brightness, and contrast tools to make the image pop a little more. Cranking the Vibrance tool up to +100 looks horrible when applied to photos of humans, but when used with minifigs, it makes the colors appear much more vividly and true-to-life, and makes the surfaces of the plastic appear softer.
Using the Levels tool is better than trying to alter the lighting conditions, because cameras don't function as well in low light conditions. You get a much nicer product if you shoot a photo in a well-lit space and then use post-processing to make it appear darker. I've made a few tutorials on photographing minifigs as well as one specifically about setting up the lighting arrangement in your photo area on a shoestring budget if you want me to post them.
>>7344969Yeah, I tried to find a way to use keywords so "Red" would get hits from "dark red", "reddish-brown", etc. but I couldn't figure out a way.
