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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Selling jewelry on-line

The hardest thing is to sell jewelry on line. How many times in my past – when I only start making jewelry I received feedback – like this “Your jewelry much better in person then on the photos”

Now I’m trying twice more to make my pictures pop to my customer’s eyes.

Some tips from me!

1. Make a composition with some extra items on background. They shouldn’t be too big neither too small. (The extra items are a nice background in the composition and not like wow what is she selling? )

2. Contrast is also good tip – don’t use blue background for some blue jewelry.

3. Try to find the angle that is not usual .. you must make the photography with the thought like the necklace or earrings or .. must flouting to the customers wish list

4. If you don’t know how Photoshop works – try to use some simple programs (I use Picasa and Paint.net) Always make some fixing before listing your items sometime even a little retouch will be great for your creation.

Here is some photos from my favorite shops - they will give you some ideas how to make your jewelry stand up.




Yuliaart on Etsy


TomBjornDesigns on Etsy

MyWayToSay on Etsy


IrinaPhotography on Etsy


Arctida on Etsy



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13 comments:

  1. ArctidaNovember 25, 2009 at 3:57 AM

    Great post with simple yet very important tips! and thank you for the feature :)

    xoxoxo
    Alecia

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  2. RhiannonSTRNovember 25, 2009 at 4:20 AM

    I am having trouble finding a good way to photograph my pendants. I just got some books from the library - so I'm really hoping in the next couple of weeks I will get some awesome photos.
    Rhiannon
    Daily Paint Journal

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  3. FernNovember 25, 2009 at 8:15 AM

    Very pretty finds :) Great tips :)
    31everything.com

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  4. JessaNovember 25, 2009 at 1:06 PM

    I love the tips! Cool post!

    -Jessa
    http://www.thehempsphere.blogspot.com

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  5. MyWayToSayNovember 25, 2009 at 1:09 PM

    RhiannonSTR can you post the link to your shop - so we could look and maybe help you ?!
    IrinaPhotography - helping us with some advises ...

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  6. Yulia KazanskyNovember 25, 2009 at 4:30 PM

    Wonderful post! Thank you for the featuring my pendant! As additional tip - it helps sometimes to make photo a little bit more saturated because I found that after photos get on Etsy they become somewhat dull, not bright. I don't know why, and why it happens with only some photos...

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  7. MyWayToSayNovember 25, 2009 at 5:09 PM

    Thank you Yulia for your extra tip !

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  8. UniqueNurseGrannyNovember 25, 2009 at 5:15 PM

    Very nicely done.

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  9. On Bended NeedleNovember 25, 2009 at 5:21 PM

    Thank you for this info! I'm new on etsy, shop opened since 11/07/09, and my pictures are less than desirable. Now I can work on fixing them.

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  10. MyWayToSayNovember 25, 2009 at 5:27 PM

    If you do have some specific qwestions - please ask - and feel free to include the link to your shop :)!

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  11. DalkullanJewelryNovember 25, 2009 at 7:42 PM

    Thanks for the tips! Photographing jewelry is difficult, I'm always on the lookout for new ideas on how to do a better job.

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  12. Claudia and Sergio OlivosDecember 2, 2009 at 4:43 PM

    Great post! We sell jewlery out of our studio, but have never tried it online...will try etsy soon!
    Thanks for the tips :)

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  13. jessicaDecember 5, 2009 at 8:53 PM

    Thank you so much for this post! These are really great tips that I'm definitely going to use. It's difficult for me to get good photos of my jewelry.

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