Need Help Editing Product Images for My Website Using Photoshop

For an e-commerce catalog, I would separate the problem into two parts: consistency during photography and consistency during post-processing.

Photoshop can help a lot, but it is difficult to make very different source photos look identical if the original lighting and white balance are significantly different.

A practical workflow would be:

1. Standardize the photography setup

Keep the camera height, distance, angle, background and lighting position as consistent as possible. If the products are photographed over multiple sessions, try to recreate the same setup each time.

2. Lock your white balance

If the lighting is controlled, use the same white-balance setting rather than letting the camera choose it differently for every image. A color checker can also help when accurate product color is important.

3. Create a Photoshop master template

I would create one PSD with:

• fixed canvas dimensions

• consistent product placement

• background layer

• basic tonal adjustments

• color correction layers

• optional shadow layer

• sharpening/output settings

Then use that as the starting point for the catalog.

4. Use Actions for repetitive corrections

Actions are useful for things such as resizing, canvas preparation, sharpening and exporting. I would avoid making an Action that blindly applies the same brightness or color correction to every photograph because the source exposure can vary.

5. Use Camera Raw for batches

If several images were photographed under the same conditions, synchronize the basic adjustments in Camera Raw first. This is usually faster than opening every image and manually rebuilding the same corrections.

6. Check difficult edges manually

Automatic background removal is useful, but products with hair, fur, transparent areas or irregular edges often need manual cleanup. I would use automatic selection as a starting point and then refine the mask where necessary.

7. Don't force every product to pure white

For some products, a very slight natural shadow helps maintain shape and depth. The important thing is that the background, exposure and presentation remain consistent across the catalog.

8. Do a final comparison

Before publishing, compare several product images side by side rather than checking them individually. Differences in brightness, white balance, crop and product scale become much easier to spot that way.

For a large catalog, the combination of a controlled shooting setup, Camera Raw synchronization, Photoshop templates/Actions and a final manual check can save a lot of time while keeping the product images consistent.

I'm a working professional product photographer and what @D Fosse wrote is spot on. You cannot fix bad originals.

I've been using Photoshop since version 2.5 in about 1994 and I CAN, sometimes, improve poorly shot images but its a big time sink. Get a proper setup with a light tent and diffused light sources. Look into a light table (frosted plexiglas that is lit from below) to get the white background.

Hello, just use remove background in the last update of Photoshop and you're done 😉 It's a real improvement  and a time saver.
After you can do an action to record all the steps you need and apply to other image. Do you know actions ? Do you nedd more help ?

You can also try the new feature in Photoshop beta called Harmonize.

It is a common misconception that this is just done in Photoshop. If you want a good result, it is done when photographing the objects.

You can mask out the object in Photoshop using any of the standard selection tools - of which there's a multitude depending on the particular requirements - but Photoshop cannot fix bad lighting. The lighting is what separates a good and "inviting" image from a bad image, regardless of background.

The ads and commercials you see are generally done by highly skilled photographers. But even so, a little consideration and planning gets you a long way. The most important thing is that you need diffused light, not a light bulb or overhead spots or anything like that. The simplest way to get diffused light is to bounce a camera flash off a white surface (ceiling or walls). You can also use translucent white plastic sheets or even fabric. Professionals usually do it with large soft-boxes attached to studio flash units.

This is straight out of the camera, no masking whatsoever: