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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1391805, member: 19065&quot;]Joe, I built my own template in Photoshop. I prefer the spotlight-from-above look with a dim light appearing under the coin with a shadow suggestively cast from the coin, inside of that spotlight. This all works to suggest the coin is floating in space. </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s your next challenge, try to make your coins appear to float as well as have the desired reflection, a reflection that fades. </p><p><br /></p><p>The fade allows you to but text there if you like to describe the coin and still be easy to read. I suggest making a careful selection of fonts and how much you allow the text to run over the top of the reflection. Text gets harder and harder to read with image behind it, especially so with the more <i>script</i> (italics) style fonts. A good idea is to identify what fonts are easy to read, what will be the best font size to use it at for this presentation and then to try and stick with using the same size and type of font in all of your image files. This consistency will lend a nice even look and feel to your coins when you show more than one example. If the text is bigger or smaller, bold, regular or italics from one image file to the next it will only distract people from looking at the coins and it may be hard to read given the choice of fonts too. </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the nice thing about a template, once its established, all you have to do the next time is insert the coin images into the template and adjust the copy to describe the coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>Coin images like this are also a nice way of presenting coins in online auctions. </p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like you are well on your way with editing image files to present your coins in a new way. :thumb:</p><p><br /></p><p>Ken did a great job with that article. I wish I&#039;d read it sooner, even though I have a different method using Photoshop as my tool. Great work Ken. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy46/kcttck/US Coins - Silver Commemoratives/1928_STONE_MTN_Commem_Half_MS60.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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