Photo Layering on a new knife

[Casey Brown]

I'm trying a layering technique to see how that looks. Please give some feedback and suggestions. I'm consistently trying to adjust my photography techniques. This is a new style knife I'm trying. Stock removal stonewashed 1084 with multi-cam G10 scales.

 

[Chris Railey]

Very clean knife sir.

 

[John Wilson]

Good job on the layers. The photo itself needs better lighting and background. As part of your layering, you can cut the knife out entirely and put it on a background of your choosing. But it is way easier to get the lighting right during the capture than it is to try to add it in post.

Adding drop shadows and selective highlighting works well in post.

 

[Smallshop]

how do you do photo layering? which program? Layering looks great!

 

[Casey Brown]

I used Gimp. There's video's on Youtube to show how to do the layering. I had another one that was more seamless. This one still shows a little line down the middle. The other didn't show shadows on the handle shot, so I stayed with the shadows. It's all a learning process!