
Photoshop Elements 3 Down & Dirty Tricks84
Quick, Elegant Product Background
This is a nice way to showcase an elegant product, such as jewelry, watches, etc. It really gives that “shot-in-the-studio” look
because it appears as though the red area is created by a soft spotlight. Best of all, this is one of those “create-it-from-scratch-in-
60-seconds” effects that appear to have taken hours.
STEP ONE: Create a new document in
the size you’d like for your background
(the one shown here is a 6x8" docu-
ment in RGB mode). Press D to set your
Foreground color to black, then press
Alt-Backspace to fill the Background layer
with black. Now, add a ne