Problem with still photos with dirty background colors.

Is the object itself the way you want it? If that's the case and only the background is off, you're either using mixed lighting or the painted room you're shooting in is influencing your pictures. You could consider using a photo tent, it's all white and you put a couple of lights on it which should even out the light and white balance. You can do a custom white balance and keep shooting in jpeg, or use raw and set the white balance manually.

Moving to a room with neutral light would also help, or using flash to overpower the ambient lighting, bouncing off pure white surfaces or use the tent or other white shoot through material.

You said that photoshop cc doesn't help, though I suspect you try to do adjustments over the whole picture instead if selectively? Photoshop has powerful selection tools to select the background and make changes using layer effects. You could do some background replacement on the shots you already have or reshoot in better conditions.

pooka3 wrote:

I'm not sure where to post this so please excuse if I'm in the wrong forum. I have a Cannon EOS Rebel T3 EOS1100D. I have a problem taking pictures to use on Ebay. Other photos aren't a problem. I am a beginner. The problem is getting a still closeup without getting a dark background or too light a background. I have a light yellow kitchen where I take the photos. The kitchen is not bright. I have tried using a tripod, an external movie lamp, flash, no flash, lights on lights off. The photos always have a brown, grey, or dirty yellow background. Right now I am trying to take photos of a silver medal enclosed in clear plastic and the photos are terrible. I have tried different settings and I still take terrible photos. I have tried changing the WB, ISO, f stops. I have also tried using different papers as backgrounds, white to black and all colors in between. I would like to take a photo of the medal with a white background and not a dirty background. Can anyone suggest what can be done? I also use Photoshop CC and even that doesn't help.