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Ditch the Softbox: How Tracing Paper Unlocks Better Product Highlights on a Budget
Every few years, a technique crosses your desk that makes you feel like you’ve been overcomplicating things. Tracing paper was that technique for me. I’d been stacking softboxes, fighting ceiling height in my smaller studio space, and still chasing that seamless, scalable highlight on reflective surfaces — shoes, bottles, jewelry. The kind of highlight that wraps around an edge cleanly and doesn’t blow out. Then I watched this tutorial from Jay P.