Good images are key to showing your work at it's best. If you don't want to or can't afford to hire a professional photographer here are some tips.

Some artists contact their local college to find a photography student to help at a discounted rate. Others employ the good graces of an amateur photographer friend. 

Doing a search on the web for "how to photograph artwork" is one of the best ways to learn how to photograph art.

Here are some resources for photographing your artwork ranging from simple steps with a Smartphone to using a digital camera and adjusting the image in Photoshop.

• FAQs:
  • What camera do I use to photograph my artwork?
• Video:
  • Photographing your Artwork for the Sharpest, Most Accurate Images You Can Imagine! - YouTube video by Steve Atkinson Studio 
• Other Resources:
  • The Challenge of Photographing Artwork - Heather Arenas' newsletter 
  • How to Photograph your Artwork for a Portfolio or the Internet - EmptyEasel.com 
  • How to Photograph Artwork  - Matt Greer Photography 
  • Photographing Oil Paintings  - Blank Canvas Ramblings 
  • Avoid these 7 Mistakes when Photographing Art  - Artsy Shark
  • How to Photograph Your 2D Art the Right Way - Light Space and Time
  • 9 Common Mistakes when Photographing your Artwork with an iPhone (and how to fix them) by Will Kemp, Will Kemp Art School

Our award-winning client David Cheifetz created a diagram showing how he photographs his work. Click here for his How to Photograph Artwork diagram.  

If you're not familiar with Photoshop's Free Transform he mentions in the diagram, here's how to work with that:

• open your image in Adobe Photoshop
• hit Command/A (Select All) to select the image
• Edit/Free Transform
• adjust sides
• save

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