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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 4568368, member: 19165&quot;]I will say, there are a few things I absolutely hate in coin pictures/backgrounds. [USER=112673]@Denis Richard[/USER]&nbsp; has brilliantly demonstrated several of them (and sometimes multiples in a single frame!, as shown by that absolutely awful bottom composite)</p><p><br /></p><p>1. I absolutely despise &quot;reflections.&quot; I don&#039;t want to see fancy photoshop tricks. I want to see the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. I hate textured backgrounds. They almost always distract from the coin, producing a busy visual that takes something away from the coin (even if its a fairly subtle texture that keeps with the color palette of the coin, such as the example shown). </p><p><br /></p><p>3. I absolutely cannot stand logos, branding, or company names. Am I looking at a coin picture that I want to share with my friends, or am I looking at a picture on a dealer&#039;s website that he&#039;s trying to sell me? A dealer can brand their photos so that you know its a coin in their inventory, but I absolutely don&#039;t want to see any sort of branding on an image I&#039;m going to use for personal use.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. The only time a logo, slogan, motto, or website should be on a coin photo is for advertising. And I&#039;m not advertising any of my coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re going to put text on the image, then limit it to something incredibly simple: cert number (and that&#039;s it); grade (even simpler); for non-US coins limit it to country (only if it doesn&#039;t clearly say it on the coin)/denomination (again, only if it doesn&#039;t clearly say on the coin)/date (only if its not immediately obvious, for example in a foreign script or regnal year)/grade (maybe KM number).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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