I also use a light box, its good for some items only. What I usually do is sit my items on top of the light box, when I put them inside its difficult to take a picture of the object upwards. I put the cover that comes with it (red, black or white) on top of the light box, you can use a a bed sheet but make sure its ironed first. I put one or two fluorescent lights , one on each side, i could put one at the back but usually two does the job and just to lazy to set up my room for photography for a hairclip and other small accessories lolll. Why fluorescent lights? Normal light bulbs have an orangy/yellowish color and it will only bounce back on the wall creating a reflection in your object and/or your object changing colors. You want to stay as close as possible to natural light, and fluorescent lights does just that. I use them a lot when shooting behind a green screen, easier to remove the background.
My dslr is a 18 Mega pixel, which helps. I barely need to use photoshop and if so, simply to adjust the brightness and contrast because I'm just too lazy to manually set up my camera lolll.
