Wider Pictures for Everyone on Etsy: No, you are not crazy!

by Amber Jordan on 10/21/10 | View Comments Comment(s)

I had a moment of madness today while strolling around Etsy. I noticed that every shop now has the new wider photos in place.  Etsy confirmed it tonight with this announcement.

Pacific Wheel at Sunset | $25 | Raceytay
How will this new size affect your shop? Are you happy about this …

Product Photography Link: Making A White Background

by Johanna Draper on 10/04/10 | View Comments Comment(s)

Olive Green Crystal Bracelet | $20 | Designs by Laurie Wilson
I wanted to share a wonderful article I found on Making it Lovely, a design blog by Nicole Balch, about photographing your products on a white background.
The process involves using 4 lamps with 100 watt daylight bulbs and a lightbox. …

Hot Topic: Models vs Mannequins

by Amber Jordan on 9/04/10 | View Comments Comment(s)

yes or no earrings | $28 | jessitaylor
I recently started a hot debate on our Facebook fanpage about models vs mannequins for product shots. I was actually surprised by the answers. Most of you are ok with mannequins and some prefer them over live models.  I would like to point …

Another Reason To Have Great Product Photos: More People Using Google Image Search

by Handmade Spark on 8/22/10 | View Comments Comment(s)

About a month ago Google introduced an upgraded image search and, according to our search stats, it looks like people are starting to use it more.

From the announcement on Google’s Blog:
* Dense tiled layout designed to make it easy to look at lots of images …

Photography Tutorial-Lighting

by Johanna Draper on 2/27/10 | View Comments Comment(s)

Many of us struggle with properly lighting our photos. It’s easy for the pros, who have all the equipment on hand they would ever need! But there just has to be simpler ways that are more affordable.
And there is. This method is one of the most affordable methods out there! …