Creating a light box tutorial
I was looking on line for ways to create my own light box, and stumbled across these two sites: Digital Photography School and How to DIY-strobis blogspot
After reading thru them, I figured I’d give it a go, with what I had on hand…lol. Click the thumbs for larger images.
Supplies:
Razor blade (ended up using my dh and his banana knife)
Box from my new rice cooker (still in the garage-the box, not the cooker)
White tissue paper
Packing tape
Desk lamp tall enough to go over the top of the box (had one in the corner by my embossing station….yeah…gonna be a little dark over there now..lol)
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- Supplies
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- All 3 sides are cut out with nice thick edges so it is stable
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- Mark the sides you want to cut with a marker first!! Use the blade to cut out.
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- Carefully tape the white tissue paper/typing paper/cloth to the outside of the frame
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- Here's a an 11x17 piece of paper I decided to use inside. Just taped it to the top
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- Tall lamp to go over the top. May need to add side lamp....hmmmm
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- Close up of the bling corner...
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- Digi image-Child of Summer
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- I just stuck a piece of tape to the top of the white paper and added it to the inside of my box for the backdrop
You can see my white paper is not all white and clean like it should be, BUT the colors of my cards are TRUE to life..which is nice! I did use the auto fade correction button in psp tho, so I have to work on my lighting a bit…over all..not bad for stuff I had on hand huh??
Here’s a card sample of the affect I did accomplish.
Digital Image used: Child of Summer Stamp image used: Doodles Hearts and Scrolls, Solid (small flowers) Colors: Copics, Triart markers Inks: Adirondack-Purple Twilight Paper-Office Max plain white 110# paper, dp-no idea Extras: Purple ribbon-JoAnn Etc.; Bling-$ bin Michaels; Die Cut-Nestabilities Label 3 Printer: Epson All in One Photo RX 620
I used a purple marker to ink along the edges of the cs
Digi image-Child of Summer
Close up of corner:
Close up of the bling corner...
TFTI!!
Pamela
very cool! I need to make one of those! I bet I have all of that stuff laying around, too! Thanks for sharing! Great card, too! :o)
Thank you for sharing this box….I just might have to give this a try.,….because I know I got the stuff so why not….thank you again…