A machine that shows how much it is used
Someone is selling a well-kept burr coffee grinder, or putting it on a review page, and shoots a close-up on the kitchen counter. The machine is fine. The photo shows its daily life: coffee dust clings inside the hopper, the steel ring around the burrs carries brown stains and rust-colored specks, and the handle holders are smudged. Behind it, window shutters and a cream-colored wall pull the eye away from the display and the dial.
Who uses this
- Owners selling a used or lightly used coffee machine, grinder or other kitchen appliance
- Small cafes and roasters who photograph their own equipment for a shop or a menu page
- Reviewers and bloggers who need a clean main image of a machine they use every day
How the edit is handled
A human editor cleans the coffee dust and film from the hopper, takes the brown stains and rust-colored specks off the steel ring and the handle holders, and replaces the shutters and the cream wall with a plain light-gray wall. The brushed steel keeps its grain, so it still reads as metal and not as a flat gray shape.
The machine itself is not redrawn. The model name, the LCD, the buttons and indicator lights, the dial numbers and the Fine and Coarser marks, the beans in the hopper and the shape of both handles are the original photo. A real scratch or dent is not retouched away, because a buyer should be able to see it.
What to upload
Send the original photo at full size, shot straight on if you can, with the display and dial in focus. Tell us whether you want the plain wall kept as a studio background or a pure white one for a marketplace main image. If the machine has stains you want shown honestly, say so, and we will leave them.
Photos
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grinder.jpg
1 credit ($8)
1 photo to edit
Instructions
Please clean the coffee dust and brown stains off the grinder and put it against a plain light wall. Keep the display and dial.
Private: recreated on our own images, not customer photos
The before/after shown here is recreated on images created or licensed for this site — never a real customer's photo. Your upload is seen only by the editor working on it, and the edit comes with free revisions within 14 days of delivery if anything needs adjusting.
