Bling! It
"Bling! It" is a background replacement tool that lets you inject new life into tired eBay images, thus helping you to move your products. It is essentially a clever repackaging of Vertus Tech's excellent image masking technology, as deployed in Fluid Mask (see that entry). However, it is much more simple to use, allowing you to replace product backgrounds in a few easy steps, then sharpen the image, and add highlights and drop shadows. It even provides facilities for the user to enhance the resolution of the product -- making a poor photo into a better shot.
If you often sell products on eBay and other auction sites, you need to make the items look as attractive as possible. Unless you've equipped yourself with a light tent, photographic lights, and a plain background, it's likely that your shots won't match professional quality. With Bling! It you can greatly improve your existing shots by removing the confusion of a messy background and drawing people's attention to the object you have to sell.
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One of Bling! It's key features is its ability to vary the resolution of an image, giving greater resolution to the product and less to the background. As the vendor points out, web image resolution is affected by data weight limits, but Bling! It can optimize the image to bring it within these constraints.
Tech info
- Plugs into: Photoshop 7 onward; Elements
- OS: Windows XP onwards; Mac OS X
- Price level: Approx. $50
Vertus Tech
Vertus Tech is one of the market leaders in image manipulation software that involves segmentation and matting.
From the same vendor:
- Fluid Mask
- Play with Pictures
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