Sell more of your handmade items with better photographs! Amidst the sea of handmade jewelry, apparel, housewares, art, and other crafts that populate blogs, websites, and online marketplaces, how do you make your items stand out? The key is great photography. Beautiful handmade items can be undermined by poor or uninspired images that fail to represent the detail and craftsmanship. With The Crafter's Guide to Taking Great Photos you'll learn that you don't need expensive, professional equipment to get quality results. Get simple, practical advice presented with the crafter in mind. Learn to make a lightbox, how to use natural lighting, and how to capture the detail in your work. Broken down into specific craft areas, you'll find tips on how to best generate eye-catching images that will help sell your items. Boost your online crafting business with The Crafter's Guide to Taking Great Photos.

A classic reference enters the digital age! The long anticipated update of Steve Meltzer’s Photographing Your Craftwork is here--and finally artists have a guide that helps them produce high quality images of their work. Cutting through the jargon and hype around digital photography, Meltzer explains in plain language how digital cameras operate, and explores specific techniques for lighting and photographing jewelry, pottery, glass, installed art, stamps, coins, dolls, and other collectibles. Because a great portfolio and smart use of the internet are so important for professional success, there’s also advice on using such photo editing programs as Adobe™ Photoshop� and CorelPHOTO-PAINT Pro� to turn images into great photographic prints, exciting websites, eye-catching marketing materials, and submissions for exhibition jurying. A Selection of the Crafter's Choice Book Club.

Take your crafts out of your workshop - and into the spotlight. Do you dream of making money with your art but feel unsure of how to begin? With The Savvy Crafter's Guide to Success, turning your hobby into a career is easier than you think. Leave the boring business books to the white-collar set! In these pages filled with plenty of artwork for inspiration, renowned rubber-stamp and polymer-clay artist Sandra McCall teaches you everything you need to know about successfully marketing and selling your work. She shares personal insights from some of the industry's top crafters, including Traci Bautista, Claudine Hellmuth, Michael Jacobs, Catherine Moore and Stephanie Olin. With sound advice, valuable do's and don'ts, and plenty of encouragement, you'll learn to: • Become a regular contributor to craft publications • Start teaching workshops at stores, retreats and craft shows • Assert yourself as an "expert" in your field Turn your dreams into reality. Turn your crafts into a career!

Beginner's Photography Guide: The Ultimate Guide to Learning How to Take Photos All the Time, Learn Expert Photography Tips and Pointers to Snap the Perfect Photo Each Time Are you interested in learning how to take great photos? Are you planning on buying a good camera to pursue your interest in photography? Nowadays, one does not even need a fancy camera to take great photos. Advanced technology has allowed us to have mobile phones that can take great photos. But cameras are still different and if you are thinking of pursuing a hobby or maybe even a career in photography in the future, buying a camera would help you get much closer to that goal. This book will give you different pointers on how to take amazing photos every time. You will learn different pointers on how to develop and improve your photography skills. You will learn everything from the basics to know how to take photos in different settings and occasions. Photography is an art and you'll eventually learn that no matter how long you've been taking photos, there is still something to discover and learn about this art. As with other craft, practice is what would make you get better. And this book has plenty of pointers to help you improve your photography skills. If you want to have a basic guide on how you can get started and improve your photography skills, scroll up and click "add to cart" now.

Discover 100 ideas for turning your good photos into great ones. This is a practical and accessible guide that includes inspirational examples of great photographs and compares and contrasts these with more average images. This, along with easy to follow tips and techniques, will show you how easy it easy to achieve the same results. 100 Ways to Make Good Photos Great covers all of the key photographic genres - capturing the perfect portraits, shooting social photography, photographing the outdoors, indoor photography, taking great photos of your holidays and travels, and shooting night and low light photography - as well as getting the very best from your shots through creating portfolios and presentations. Now that most people have a camera or camera phone, the term 'point and shoot' has become ever prevalent. However, sometimes we will want something more than good snapshots. 100 Ways to Make Good Photos Great will show you ways, often simple and fun ways, to create great photos that will be more emotive and meaningful to you. Cutting through the mystique in photography, whether you are an aspirational amateur wanting to make your photographs even better, or an enthusiastic beginner who just wants to produce more satisfying results, this practical guide offers useful professional tips and techniques to take your photography to the next level.

Photographs record memories of that all-important work-in-progress called life. So why take pictures only to stow them away in a drawer? This step-by-step guide shows how anyone can jazz up photos to create unique home accessories and gifts using two simple technique: image transferring and hand-coloring. Whether you want to personalize a frame or pillow with a great image or photo, touch up Mom and Dad's black-and-white wedding photo, or add color to a new landscape portrait--this fully illustrated guide offers detailed instructions for a host of fun and easy photo craft projects.

For those who take pictures but then leave t hem in a shoebox, this guide offers lots of good ideas on ho w to display and keep them. Susie Johns shows how to use a r ange of techniques that includes photo montage and decoupage . '