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wow, looks fabulous.
Doing that will make your product look so much better. and hence get better vsales.
Well done.

That looks the nuts


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Thanks guys. The hardest/most-time-consuming part is making the original model. The rest is a doddle really. Rendering an image takes about 30 minutes on my mediocre pc.

There are of course 3D models that already exist for lots of things, such as standard mugs, bags, cushions etc so wouldn't need modelling. The renderer gives superb control over lighting and you can even add depth of field effects for even more realism.

Apart from the obvious use for product shots, I also find it very useful for trying out my designs without printing or pressing a mug. I can easily change those red mugs to pink, blue, green,.... whatever is available, to see how a design looks on a different coloured mug.

We take nice style shots of blank/unprinted products, and then use photoshop to mock up onto them - so we have now a stock of blank white cushions and lampshades we've made along with unprinted mugs we use for this - a lot more an organic looking shot than rendering, especially for textile based un-shiney products

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Here's an example of a chenille cushion we had one of ou sewing staff make up plain unprinted white, we then photographed it on this set - the backdrop is printed onto paper on our wide format printer - we rushed it a little, as you can still the ripples in the paper. The floor is also just printed paper. The props are real (from Wilko!) we then load the design file onto the cushion in PS, skew it around a bit to match the shape/size/angle of the cushion, use multiply so that the texture and lighting of the cushion comes through into the design, and then a bit of burn and dodge as necessary.

.... sorry, can't see your image or link.

No idea why it wasn't showing up then - it was for me in my normal browser window, but if I went to incognito mode, the image wasn't there.
Hopefully working now!

Yes, working now!

I like your idea of printing a base and backdrop, it gets around the problem of finding a suitable place to stage your shot, or the necessity of having to cut out your image in Photoshop to add a background image.