Here’s a great step-by-step tutorial on how to create a magazine quality product silhouette. Ebay and other online auction users will be particularly interested in this technique.
You’re seen examples of silhouette everywhere. In printed magazines, ebay and web sites. They are the pictures that appear to be perfectly outlined with white making them easy to place on web pages and printed material. One of the nice things about silhouette images is they don’t have traditional borders or frames and appear much more natural. This tutorial is accomplished with fairly simple lighting and a few minutes spent in an image processing software like Photoshop.
Different lighting effects are analyzed and examples of each are displayed along with a neat little “water bead trick.”
