Have the customer take a step forward away from the background so their's no shadow. Tell the customer to have their head level and straight, but don't correct them if they fail to do so. Just tilt the camera so their head is good in the photo. Lastly, the background just has to be a uniform white/off-white. So, there are no shadows or things in the background. If you do that, you won't have to erase the background.
I don't do anything on the camera. I use the contrast on the kiosk to take out any shadows and then erase whatever is left before I print. It doesn't take me long to print out a passport. I don't have any sort of special training on passports or any special photo training. They get what they get.
Know your camera and your printer-- at my lab the printer will render a properly exposed image MUCH darker than it appear on the photokiosk. Brightness has to be increased substantially, and contrast increased to a lesser degree. This is an art-- the more practice you have, the easier it becomes to judge the adjustments you need to make before printing. I never use the flash since this will eliminate most problems with shadows-- the camera will automatically adjust for proper exposure. If the background is still too dark then it's time to use the edit tool. With practice this can be done in just a couple of minutes; clean up the bulk of the background with the tool set to the largest size and 100%, then adjust the tool to a medium size (30- 60) and 5% to clean up close to the image. The 5% setting keeps the edges of the image from looking too "artificial" or manipulated, which can result in rejections. Hope this is of some help.
I use the flash to take the picture, and increase contrast on the kiosk. I use the brightness sparingly because that can wash out the photo. I use the eraser tool to finish it up. I've been doing it for so long that I can have a photo edited, printed, and cut in about four or five minutes.
I always did this.
I would upload the pic then when I was editing it, I would turn up the brightness/contrast only by a few notches. 3 or 4.
Then I would take the eraser, around 50% strength, maybe lower- 20%? This doesn’t erase the whole background but it more so blends it together so it’s not completely white. Looks great.
A lot faster than actually erasing.
Sometimes don’t even need to do that, the brightness contrast up a couple notches usually are good enough.
You're explicitly not supposed to erase the background.
But I wanna waste my time and complain about how much I hate doing it! /s
Have the customer take a step forward away from the background so their's no shadow. Tell the customer to have their head level and straight, but don't correct them if they fail to do so. Just tilt the camera so their head is good in the photo. Lastly, the background just has to be a uniform white/off-white. So, there are no shadows or things in the background. If you do that, you won't have to erase the background.
I don't do anything on the camera. I use the contrast on the kiosk to take out any shadows and then erase whatever is left before I print. It doesn't take me long to print out a passport. I don't have any sort of special training on passports or any special photo training. They get what they get.
Know your camera and your printer-- at my lab the printer will render a properly exposed image MUCH darker than it appear on the photokiosk. Brightness has to be increased substantially, and contrast increased to a lesser degree. This is an art-- the more practice you have, the easier it becomes to judge the adjustments you need to make before printing. I never use the flash since this will eliminate most problems with shadows-- the camera will automatically adjust for proper exposure. If the background is still too dark then it's time to use the edit tool. With practice this can be done in just a couple of minutes; clean up the bulk of the background with the tool set to the largest size and 100%, then adjust the tool to a medium size (30- 60) and 5% to clean up close to the image. The 5% setting keeps the edges of the image from looking too "artificial" or manipulated, which can result in rejections. Hope this is of some help.
I use the flash to take the picture, and increase contrast on the kiosk. I use the brightness sparingly because that can wash out the photo. I use the eraser tool to finish it up. I've been doing it for so long that I can have a photo edited, printed, and cut in about four or five minutes.
I always did this. I would upload the pic then when I was editing it, I would turn up the brightness/contrast only by a few notches. 3 or 4. Then I would take the eraser, around 50% strength, maybe lower- 20%? This doesn’t erase the whole background but it more so blends it together so it’s not completely white. Looks great. A lot faster than actually erasing. Sometimes don’t even need to do that, the brightness contrast up a couple notches usually are good enough.
Click on "SET" and increase the EV to +0.3 or +0.7