in stead of the ring light what you want is diffused light. You can buy fancy screens to put between the studio lights and the subject but the cheap way is to h

in stead of the ring light what you want is diffused light. You can buy fancy screens to put between the studio lights and the subject but the cheap way is to hang some shower curtains around and have your lights beam onto as much of the surface as possible. I use gimp, if the image may consume this much time and effort i just take a lot of pictures from the same angle with different settings and light. I load each image as a layer, duplicate some and change their contrast colors temp etc then add/remove each layer by playing with its transparency and use the eraser to get rid of unwanted parts of the layer. Then when the result sucks I repeat all of the mistakes from scratch.