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Photograph your artwork

A practical guide to even lighting, glare control, straight perspective and accurate colour.

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A practical guide to even lighting, glare control, straight perspective and accurate colour. The aim is not to create one rigid rule, but to give you a dependable starting point you can test in your own practice.

The working principle: make the simplest useful decision first, then add complexity only when it improves the work or the business.

Practical checklist

  1. Use soft, even light and avoid mixed light sources.
  2. Keep the camera sensor parallel to flat artwork.
  3. Include detail photographs for texture and surface.
  4. Compare the final image with the original before publishing.

What to do next

Try the advice on one real piece of work rather than redesigning your whole practice at once. Record what changed, what it cost and whether the result was genuinely better.