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hi everybody and welcome back to my
studio so today I'm going to be
uploading some artwork onto Etsy for
sale and I thought I would film it so I
can show you guys the process that I go
through whenever I put something up on
Etsy so I really hope that you guys
enjoyed this video and if you have any
questions feel free to leave them in the
comment section and I will try our best
to get through them and to answer them
so the first thing that I do is clear a
space to take some photographs and it
needs to be near a natural light these
artworks are only small so if you have
quite large artworks I would suggest
taking the photographs outside on a
cloudy day but these pictures are just
to upload on my Etsy and my social media
so it doesn't matter too much I take a
range of photo show in the front details
and I like to take a picture holding the
painting so that people know how big it
is then I do this for all the different
paintings and it took me about 15
minutes to take all the photographs next
I upload the photos to my computer and
they need to be edited because usually
my photos come out a little bit dark so
I like to boost the levels curves and
add some brightness and contrast and
then crop it to a suitable size the
Dodge tool in Photoshop is really great
for taking out those areas of shadow and
also sometimes I need to adjust the
colors if it's a sunny day because that
can add a slightly orange tint to it
which can be misleading all these
different color settings can be changed
in free software as well and even phone
apps these days so you don't need
Photoshop if you haven't got it it took
me quite a while to edit all the
pictures I'd probably say about 40
minutes then I wrote a blog post and the
newsletter just to tell everybody about
the release in case people were
interested in purchasing any other
paintings and you can check out that
blog post in the description box I'll
link it right at the top
so I'm currently on my laptop and I'm
uploading all the Luka paintings I've
just photographed so basically some
things that I do when I upload stuff to
Etsy one of the main things is to title
your painting things that people would
search as well people that are
interested in that painting type in the
word our painting or so basically when
you add your title make sure that you
add in keywords that people are likely
going to search for if they want to find
your product that's like the number one
thing I think when uploading stuff to
Etsy another thing is making sure your
photos are bright and making sure that
they are in focus and things that should
be relatively simple can actually be
difficult to get right and also making
sure that the photo is cropped in the
right way so all these little things are
really important when upload into Etsy
and just some things that I try and do
as well so when I upload them onto Etsy
I also usually do a newsletter which I
will pop a link in the description to so
you could be like added to the
newsletter list if you would like to be
let know when new things are coming out
also I usually put it all across my
social media so that people know that
those paintings are available just in
case anybody has been sort of waiting
for them to come up so that they get a
good chance of getting one also I try
and write a blog post on it as well so
there are some things that I usually do
to try and get the word out that some
new things have gone up in my Etsy shop
and just upload in the last ones out so
if you want to get your hands on one of
these paintings then I will link them
all in the description box below and
feel free to go and check them out even
if you don't want to buy one you feel
free to go and check it out and look at
the pictures that I put in the
description and things like that that's
just a little snippet of what it is I
actually do sort of behind the scenes
and how long these things take
and stuff like that so I hope that you
really enjoyed it and I'll see you in
the next video bye
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