Public Service Announcement: Using ‘Not Your Photo’, or ‘Not Yours’, or ‘Not Your Picture’, or ‘Mine’ as a watermark across your product photos is not effective. Unfortunately, I keep seeing crafters using generic, blanket statements across product photos or photos they share in crafting groups. I wanted to take a minute today to highlight that …
Product Photography
Good product photos sell your products. Everyone knows that, but getting those great shots can be tough. Here are some of my favorite tips. 10 Product Photography Tips for Silhouette & Cricut Business Owners Know your camera. I can’t stress enough, to take better pictures – you have to know how your camera works. Whether …
While we are talking product photography this week, we need to take a few minutes and look at videos. I’ve mentioned before – more than a few times – that videos on social media are a great way to reach your followers. Before we look at tips for live videos in your Silhouette Cameo or …
Photography week continues! While I’ve mentioned photography backdrops a few times in the week already, let’s look at some specific products and places that make great product photo backgrounds. 6 Background Ideas for Product Photos The great outdoors. The light is bright and perfect for taking product photos, so find a natural setting and shoot …
As Photography Week continues here on the blog, today we are going to talk about light boxes and tents. So, what exactly is a light box or light tent? They are basically boxes with translucent sides that diffuse light onto your product without producing shadows. To use a light box, you place your product inside …
I’ve been there so many times: I’ve made the absolute most beautiful, wonderful, gorgeous creation known to anyone in this world using glitter or holographic materials and when I take a photo of it – it doesn’t sparkle! Instead, it looks flat, and usually pretty dark compared to the rest of the photo. Have you …
I get a lot of Cutting for Business readers that ask about me about my blog photos. As I showed you several weeks ago, many of my photos are mockups that I create with stock photos. Others are green screen photos. Today, I am going to show you how to use a green screen in …