Taking professional-looking photos which are well-presented is key to making money from Etsy.  Here are a few places to go to improve your photo taking skills.   It has taken me a long time to figure out how to take good close-up photos.  I used these techniques when taking the photos for my book also.

• Etsywiki is a great forum to find out more about creating photographic masterpieces for Etsy.
• Photojojo has great tips and photographs for taking close-up photos for Etsy.
• Some good tips on Ehow.
• Photoshop beginner tutorials on YouTube.  I learnt to use Photoshop from having a friend show me.  I have also read a lot of books on Photoshop (I own five books on it) but find them really difficult to understand.  If you are a visual learner like me, try to get a friend to help teach you the basics like re-sizing the image, auto adjustments, making a border around the outside, or the next best thing – watch a tutorial.  Don’t be fooled into thinking that just because Photoshop is a huge application, it is difficult.  It is as easy as pie.
• GIMP is free photo software you can download if you are shocked by the price of Photoshop (personally I think it is worth it).  I have not used it myself but have been told that it is user-friendly.

Practice makes perfect and good photos take some time to produce but are well worth the effort if it means the difference between selling or not!

Mia

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