5 Tips to Fix White Background Problems

5 Tips to Fix White Background Problems

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Gavin Hoey

Gavin Hoey is a freelance photographer, writer and trainer of all things photographic. His work is regularly featured in photography magazines, websites and videos.
Gavin has a real passion for sharing his photography and Photoshop knowledge. In 2008 he started recording and uploading video tutorials to YouTube. These quickly gained a large following and to date his videos have been viewed over 20 million times.
In 2010 Gavin was the winner of Adobe’s “Next Photoshop Evangelist” competition and since then he has given training demonstrations in Photoshop, Lightroom and Photoshop Elements in the UK, Europe and the US.
In 2012 Gavin joined forces with Adorama as a presenter on Adorama TV, where he inspires and teaches photographers from around the world in the art of photography and post processing.

Perfect white backgrounds can be found in a wide variety of photography from family portraits to corporate headshots and product photography. But getting a clean white background isn’t as easy as it sounds and can throw up some real challenges.
Fortunately Gavin Hoey has five top tips for getting your studio backgrounds super white and dealing with real world lighting problems.

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