How to take a great photo of
your bike for the 3-d art process

1. Place your bike outside, against a garage door or other non-busy background (if possible), with the kickstand down.

2. Straighten your wheel (its ok to have someone behind your bike holding the wheel straight. We’ll photoshop them out of the photo!).

3. Bend your knees when aiming your camera so that your camera is even with the seat.

4. Set your camera to shoot the highest quality photo you can, then take several digital images of your beautiful bike (without a flash).

5. Because your photos will be large files (do not compress them), go to www.sendthisfile.com to sign up for a free account.  Send your digital photos to us at cat@catherinerains.com using this free service which allows you to send very large files.

Good Photos		"Bad" Photos
		Make sure they aren't any other bikes behind yours. Too confusing to figure out what is yours and what is theirs
		Too dark in the back of the bike.
		Again, too dark in the back of the bike.
		Too much glare on the tank and headlight.
		Again, glare on the pipe, and helmet on the seat.