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 tips and suggestions.

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. If you want to give it a try yourself, read on.

Our award-winning client David Cheifetz created a diagram showing how he photographs his work. Click on the diagram to open a pdf file from that page.

If you're not familiar with Photoshop's Free Transform as 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

Helpful How To info can be found by doing a search on the web for "how to photograph artwork." 

Here are a few articles we found:

• Photographing your Artwork for the Sharpest, Most Accurate Images You Can Imagine! - YouTube video by Steve Atkinson Fine Art
• The Challenge of Photographing Artwork - Heather Arenas' newsletter
• How to Photograph Paintings
  by Ansen Seale - FAV
• 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

Also see this FAQ:
What camera do I use to photograph my artwork?

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