hi everyone
in this video i'm going to show you how
i take pictures of my greeting cards to
sell on etsy and on my website i like to
make them look a bit more interesting
than just like a picture of the card on
its own i like to add a few different
things to the photo which i will show
you some examples so these are
some of the pictures i've taken of my
cards and
i use them for like i said etsy on my
website and
i'm not like the biggest etsy seller
going i've made a few sales but i've not
got like hundreds and hundreds of sales
i've not been doing it for that long but
i
do like taking pictures and i feel like
i might be able to give you a bit of
inspiration or just give you some ideas
on
ways to take pictures
and so yeah this is going to be quite
like a casual laid-back video i'll just
talk you through some of the stuff that
i do and if you're interested and want
to find out more then please keep
watching
so first things first this is the wall
that i used to take my pictures against
i purposely painted this wall this color
because i really wanted it to look nice
in the background of my pictures i do
really like the color obviously just for
the office but
yeah i've painted it with this in mind
and
obviously if you don't have like a wall
or something that you've purposely
painted don't worry just find like a
nice little corner of your house or like
a nice plain wall
that you can use to
use as like a backdrop even if it's not
a wall like just somewhere that is quite
like
plain or
however you want the background of your
photos to look back i like them to look
plain
so i'll just set my camera up now and
i'll start setting all this stuff up i
use the two side tables and
put like a few different items on such
as like
flowers and
i'll show you but i'm going to start
setting it up and then i'll talk you
through it
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so this is the setup that i use
i do it pretty much the exact same
every time and but i might just change
like
a few things i could change
the flowers or
just something different in it every now
and then just to keep it interesting
and i often like check back at um
photos of
the setup just to make sure i've got it
like
pretty similar
and this time i'm using these flowers
instead
i usually use like a eucalyptus flower
but i really like these
they're a bit more autumnal
and they're just like dried flowers i
get them from um
a local flower shop in ghosting
flowers but i'm like and i think they're
called and they do some
really nice flowers and they look really
good in the pictures so that's what i
use and then i've got two big studio
lights
these are the lights i've got two of
these
and i usually just put them like side by
side and face them towards the setup
so that i've got a really good like
amount of light so i'll do that
the now feeling
beyond the ghost
we stand on the opposite shore
hello
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i
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right there we go i've just set those up
so that there's one on each side and
they're both pointing down towards my
photo setup i already have these lights
because i use them for drawing and
filming my tutorials and stuff
if you don't have anything like this
i'd suggest using natural daylight
possibly so
go somewhere with like a a big window or
you know where there's a natural light
coming in and if not these lights are 30
pounds i think on amazon but you could
probably get something a bit smaller
like maybe a ring light or
just something with like good um
daylight
type light so it's very white rather
than being really warm
but just have a play around with what
you've already got and
worse comes to worse if you do have to
get something
then these aren't too expensive but it
lighting's really important if i didn't
like this setup now it'd look really
bland and yeah it wouldn't look right so
yeah i'll show you now how i take the
pictures
this is just a little close-up so that's
obviously the greetings card
i've got the envelope underneath it just
to create a bit of interest
and i always like to put a pen as well
also just to
add a bit of context add a bit of
interest and
i use this little
wood slice that i got i don't know where
i got that i think it's just like um
i think it might have been from barton
grange just like a garden center you put
like your salt and pepper and stuff in
it and i've just turned it upside down
and
yeah i like the rustic look of it so i
just use that and it seems to work okay
and they're the flowers
behind so we'll see how that looks i'm
going to try taking some pictures now
all i use to take my photos is my
iphone so i've got the iphone 11 i think
and it takes really good pictures and
yeah if you've got smartphone literally
just use that
they take good pictures they've got
really good cameras now one important
thing to note is
using etsy
the photos the dimensions are slightly
different to
what you can upload to a website so i
always do two lots of pictures
i do one that's like
a sideways picture like that and then
to my website i just change the
um
the proportions of the picture and i do
a square one so i just do two different
i learned that the hard way i do two
different ones
and just edit them afterwards so i'm
going to start taking some pictures now
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so
that is the photo i think it looks quite
good actually i really like the flowers
in the background
i like how autumnal they look
so i might even just try
do i try and turn it round and get the
orange bit
hmm
i'm gonna try it
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can you see
that's nice i like the orange i think it
just adds a bit more color
it's a bit more going on so i'm gonna do
the sideways picture now
but let's
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last to see we're all in this
i stand alone
show me where the ending goes
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i
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there we go
that looks pretty good
i quite like that
so now i'll just do the other design and
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i'll show you how i edit the pictures
after
i don't know whether that looks a bit
strange it's a bit autumnal but the
actual cod
is a bit more
summery i'd say so i might try and
change the flowers
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okay i'm happy with that
i'm happy with that i'm gonna do the
sideways
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i'm happy with how that's turned out too
now i'm going to edit the pictures and
i'll start uploading my listings all i
do is i just edit all of my pictures on
my phone for ease
so i'll just edit i'll have a look
through see which one's the straightest
the one that i like the best
and i just haven't literally just have a
play around with the different editing
stuff so let it exposure i usually turn
that up a little bit
brilliant sometimes
turn that up a bit
turn the shadows down
literally just have a play around with
all the different settings on my phone
and that's it i don't do anything on
photoshop because it just takes too long
and i don't really do that much to it to
be honest if you've got good lighting
then you're pretty much three quarters
of the way there i will favorite the
pictures that i've edited and the ones
that i like best so then when i go into
my favorites folder i can just easily
find which ones i'm sending to my laptop
right i'm on my etsy page now so i'm
just gonna
send myself
these pictures what i'm gonna do usually
i just copy the listing that i've
already got but if you're starting from
scratch
you'll need to set a new one up so i'm
just gonna
copy
i'll start with
there we go so that's the picture
and obviously it's not a woodpecker
so
i just need to do the description so
this
the lead of the
greetings card is perfect for the
wildlife lovers in your life there we go
so that is a new listing
now
i'll just do the same
delete the first one
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i like to put a picture of what the back
of the card looks like and a picture of
the compostable bag just because
um it's important to me that the
packaging isn't all plastic so i like to
make a point of that
and then i'm just going to copy
the description
there we go
so that is now a listing just going to
show you what that now looks like on
my website
i use wix for my website by the way
oh it's not done it i've not saved it
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there it is that is the picture
i'll
insert them into this video as well so
that you can have a look and get some
inspiration
to do your own if this is something that
you're interested in doing yourself i
also have a video on how i actually make
the cards i don't make them myself but i
do like the
scan the scanning of the artwork and
putting it onto a template and then
printing it through an online company
that is something i can help you with if
you don't know where to start it's
really fun i really enjoy the process of
selling my own cards i just
love doing all the pictures and all the
designs so
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