Make Your Own Light Box

B cut out the boxes you ve drawn.

Make your own light box. Now see which side would work the best as the front of your light box. Measure out windows on either side of your box. All materials used in this tutorial can be bought for. Now cut that sides of the box in the middle with an x acto knife.

Light boxes do it yourself il s interiore the inner self says. But since mine is rectangular i chose the longest sides because they d let in more light. Plywood 2 x 4 ft 1x4 board 8 ft foil tape frosted plexiglas 18 x 24 in plug in led tape light 10 ft. The imagination tree and happy hooligans show you how simple and easy it is.

Ask workers at nearby stores for unnecessary boxes or buy the most suitable one from a storage enterprise. Leave the bottom intact. Diy light box happy hooligans make your own light box or light table reply. October 21 2013 at 2 41 am fortune buying a ready made one it is simple to make one yourself.

This box has 60 x 40 x 8 cm aprox 15 by 23 by 3 tall and you can make it any size you want but i recommend not making it too shallow so you can get a better light refraction inside the box. Plywood some plexiglas and a cheap led light strip you can have a homemade light box for tracing and art projects. C now take your bristol board and make lines with your marker for every two inches 16 times. Place your box on its side so that the open flaps are facing you.

If your box is square then it wouldn t matter which part you choose. When you re done cut off the top of the box or remove the flaps on the top of the box. Then proceed to cut out 16. With just a couple hours some 1x4 1 4 in.

Draw a straight line with a pencil along the edges of the box to connect these points creating a rectangle with space around the edges. Watch this photographer walk you through how to build your own light box for small product photography. Repeat that to the sides of the box where you have drawn the boxes. For the material i am using 10mm plywood that is going to be joined with 45º miters with internal splines for reinforcement but you can use solid wood.

Use a ruler to mark a point roughly 2 inches 5 1 cm from each edge on one side of the box. The bigger your box is the more extensive variety of objects of different sizes you will be able to photograph.