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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 165763, member: 25&quot;]If the actual colour of the paper is white, or nearly, it should look white, not a dark blue-grey.</p><p><br /></p><p>People who buy antiques are often old, look at the profile ages on another thread. We do not need things exaggerated in contrast, just all the contrast that is there in the original. Here is a document I snapped casually and tweaked a bit to get the colours about right.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]45432[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Including the slight staning. </p><p><br /></p><p>One way to make your listings stand out in a crowded marketplace is to have really good pictures. Go for pictures that look exactly like the item. Not like a picture of the item.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is really worth the time to do this and it does not take long with digital cameras as you can try and then discard ad lib.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is not a sin to photo-edit pictures for listings, digital cameras are most frequently used on automatic and they do get things wrong. They are fine for the average views and portraits but not optimised for the sort of things antique sellers often need to illustrate. Practice will sometimes make perfect but always make better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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