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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pat P, post: 75723, member: 201&quot;]Were you referring to the left-hand side of the card? It&#039;s not clipped... the left side of the card doesn&#039;t have the scalloping. The card is like a contemporary one that&#039;s folded in half horizontally, and the left side is where it folds. The black background was part of the original scan.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was thinking of using a gray background for the same reasons you mention, to try to help the camera along in getting the right exposure, but haven&#039;t tried it yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Last week I bought a set of two foam core boards that are gray on one side and tan on the other. The surfaces are flat but have a slight pattern that gives both sides a textured look that I thought might work for photo backgrounds.</p><p><br /></p><p>With my old Nikon Coolpix, I usually changed my camera settings depending upon whether I was using a black or white background. Generally, I used the center weight setting for items against a black background but usually not for a white background.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, for white backgrounds I usually used a +1 or +2 exposure and a -1 for black backgrounds.</p><p><br /></p><p>With my newer Canon, sometimes the automatic settings work fine and I don&#039;t have to fuss with the settings, but sometimes I do the same as what I did with the Nikon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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