how to document and photograph 2D artwork with a cellphone thanks to advanced development in computational photography for cell phones, small devices can capture images that are comparable to dslr cameras when viewed in small screens and social media. the quality of the cellphone captures will show their limitations when viewed in larger screens or printed tips for photographing art work with cellphone: camera glass in front of lens should be clean tripod helps to increase sharpness of capture but carefully handheld camera is fine most of distortion and optical problems happen next to the edge of the capture, make sure to leave space around art work and crop later if you can, avoid jpg format in favor of heic. settings>camera>formats light light needs to be diffuse and bright, in low light cellphones captures will develop digital noise and color artifacts light should be even and not directional light shouldn t project any shadows on the artwork the environment where the artwork is photographed should be neural, any color will be reflected and act as a color filter artwork smaller artwork is easier to photograph on the floor, use a white paper as background remove glass in front of artwork to reduce reflections if the artwork is very large it can be photographed in sections and stitched together in postproduction post production minimize processing, if you are not satisfied with the original re-shoot after changing lighting or camera settings snapseed is a preferred app but the iphone default edit app is good enough tonality, color, wb, cropping and perspective correction are the only corrections needed adding contrast and sharpening usually work well with b&w images and drawings but not with color paintings if photo looks good, give yourself credit (©1888fsavini). copyright> option-G>© included bellow are some interesting and useful links feel free to contact me by email or instagram for help. [email protected] https://www.aftrart.com/blog/documenting-artwork-iphone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9WUYQUNwD4 https://fstoppers.com/education/what-computational-photography-anyway-415836 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9WUYQUNwD4.