If you have an online retail store, you probably have many product pictures. You can hire a professional photographer to take and clean up photos, at an expensive cost, or you can do it cheaply. Here’s what I do that’s pretty cheap:
- Take pictures in my garage against a solid color background (e. g. a white wall)
- Hire someone in India via Elance.com to remove the background
I pay around $0.50 per photo and my guy completes about 100 photos in a couple of days - Clean up the images in Photoshop
Using “Auto Tone” and manually adjusting the Levels is usually sufficient
That’s it!