Photographing Small Objects and Need a Background?

Create your own colours, textures or even use pictures as backgrounds.

I made this background in Photoshop, but you can use anything you like.
Save it so you can fill the screen with it in the next step.

The wine glass is the foreground subject. The blue and yellow background for it is fills the laptop screen.

-- A macro (close-up) setting may help.

-- If you light the subject, stop it spilling onto the screen by choosing the direction carefully (e.g. no frontal flash).

-- Watch out for digital artefacts (patterns or lines) on the background if it is too sharply focussed (see also comments from others).