Need Help Editing Product Images for My Website Using Photoshop

[wavesbeauty]

Hi, I’m working on editing product images for my website and need some help using Photoshop. Specifically, I want to: Remove backgrounds cleanly and replace them with white or transparent backgrounds Adjust lighting, shadows, and colors to make the images look more professional Resize and optimize the images for web use without losing quality I’m not very advanced in Photoshop, so I would really appreciate some guidance or tutorials on the best practices for editing eCommerce product images. Are there any recommended tools, actions, or presets that can speed up this process? Thanks in advance!

[D Fosse]

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:

[Alexandre Becquet]

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.

[ExUSA]

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.

[Alexandre Becquet]

I know  😉 but i'm trying to find solutions to help the user. 
You can have a look at Harmonize and upscale new features in Photoshop beta 😉

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0plKURMkAc&t=235s

[ExUSA]

"Fix it in post" is lazy and unreliable. Someone new to Photoshop and presumably new to photography REALLY needs to learn industry best practices rather than shortcuts and kludges.

[D Fosse]

Right. If you run a business, some good lighting equipment pays off very quickly in images that attract customers and stand out from the competition.

Backlighting basically eliminates any need for masking, and will save you a ton of time. Here's a light tent with built-in possibility for backlighting:

[ExUSA]

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/browse/Shooting-Tents-Domes/ci/11098/N/4037060767

[M-H]

i'm trying to find solutions to help the user. 

By @Alexandre Becquet

Seems like user already knows exactly what they need to learn as its all listed in first post and I can also see phrase "tutorial" there so lets put it together @wavesbeauty: https://justgptit.com/?query=where%20to%20find%20photoshop%20ecommerce%20tutorials