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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 26010070, member: 1765&quot;]I usually like a solid black background as it shows nothing but the coin, and that&#039;s usually what I want to see.&nbsp; I&#039;ve had customers that have wanted other colors, usually white, because of the context in which the coins are presented online in which white is a proxy for transparent.&nbsp; I did shoot some big copper for someone and they wanted something different for the background, so I suggested &quot;Penny Whimsy sage&quot; and &quot;Dansco tan&quot;.&nbsp; They liked the sage color.&nbsp; I think better would have been to also use the texture of the binding, as a subtle texture can soften a solid background.</p><p><br /></p><p>My calendar pages always use a darkened, blown-up section of the coin with a dark outer glow on the coin pictures.&nbsp; Tags and stickers are always absent, as they&#039;re distracting.</p><p><br /></p><p>I use Photoshop for editing and Imagemagick for compositing.&nbsp; Imagemagick allows me to have compositing be identical every time, being strictly a scripted tool that I run in a bash shell.&nbsp; I need to spend more time with it sometime see if it&#039;s any faster if I use a Python or C++ API.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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