{"id":178,"date":"2009-06-12T11:33:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T15:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2016-07-22T18:46:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T22:46:39","slug":"creating-a-white-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/creating-a-white-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating A White Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using a cool tutorial I found on <a href=\"http:\/\/kinkymelcat.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/how-to-create-knockout-photos-for-etsy.html\" target=\"_blank\">KMC Designs Blog<\/a> I cleaned up the backgrounds in some of the white photos I took for my new <a href=\"http:\/\/ruthbleakley.etsy.com\">Etsy shop<\/a>. Ultimately I want all of my photos to have white backgrounds since I think it will make my shop look more cohesive. I&#8217;ve been learning to use a friend&#8217;s Digital SLR which I&#8217;m using to take the photos, so hopefully I&#8217;ll soon be able to do more in-camera adjustments to the photos, and fewer adjustments in photoshop.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_172\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-172 size-full\" title=\"Jellyfish accordion book by Ruth Bleakley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/jellyfish1.jpg\" alt=\"Before - pinkish gray background\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/jellyfish1.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/jellyfish1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/jellyfish1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before &#8211; pinkish gray background<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_169\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-169\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-169 size-full\" title=\"Jellyfish accordion book by Ruth Bleakley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_3277.jpg\" alt=\"After - pure white #ffffff\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_3277.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_3277-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_3277-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After &#8211; pure white #ffffff<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">Here&#8217;s another one, the spider accordion book that I did an <a href=\"http:\/\/kinkymelcat.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/how-to-create-knockout-photos-for-etsy.html\" target=\"_blank\">earlier blog post<\/a> about, but this time with a nice white background.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_171\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-171 size-full\" title=\"Spider book by Ruth Bleakley and Christina Lafontaine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/spider1.jpg\" alt=\"Before - grayish background\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/spider1.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/spider1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/spider1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before &#8211; grayish background<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_170\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-170 size-full\" title=\"Spider book by Ruth Bleakley and Christina Lafontaine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_3282.jpg\" alt=\"Here's the spider with a lovely white background\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_3282.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_3282-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_3282-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here&#8217;s the spider with a lovely white background<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>before and after photos of creating knockout white backgrounds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[98],"tags":[67,69,68],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/2437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}