"The Key To Making Money Selling Your Handcrafted Jewelry Online Is Knowing How To Photograph Jewelry!"

Dear Friend,

My name is Jim Juris and my specialty is photographing jewelry and small craft items. I do this without buying and using a lot of expensive photography equipment. Of course, this is assuming that you already have purchased a digital camera and a good tripod.

I know how frustrating jewelry photography can be. Most people who make and sell jewelry online feel that photographing their jewelry is the part of their business that they dislike the most.

Jewelry photography is like anything else, the more time and effort that you put into photographing jewelry the better you will become and the easier it will be. This is true not only for jewelry photography but for any craft or hobby.

This ebook is not just for jewelry makers, it is for any craft person or hobbyist that needs to photograph small objects...

• soap
• dolls
• coins
• candles
• thimbles
• birdhouses
• fishing ties
• arrowheads
• teddy bears
• matchbox cars

Benefits of reading my ebook:

Fast! You won't need to spend days, weeks, months, or a year trying to perfect your photography. You can read my ebook in two hours or less.

Easy! The methods that I teach in my ebook are easy to understand and use.

Low Cost! You won't have to spend hundreds of dollars on additional equipment such as special lighting or a jewelry photography light box to make your photos look good.

Immediate Download! You never have to leave home to purchase my ebook. The immediate download is only available through my Photography By Jim Juris shop on Handmade Artists.

While many artisans create beautiful jewelry and other handmade crafts, they don't know how to take great photographs of their fabulous creations. Their photos look bad so they miss out on sales. With some practice and by using the knowledge that I will provide from my experience, you should be seeing a great improvement in the quality of your jewelry photography very quickly.

My ebook consists of 60 pages of text. Included in those 60 pages are 34 images.

Table of contents:

• Buying a digital camera
• Becoming familiar with your digital camera
• Using a tripod and the camera's self-timer for sharp images
• Program, shutter priority, aperture priority, and manual mode settings
• Macro mode
• Tips and tricks to avoid blurry images
• White balance, exposure compensation settings, and bracketing
• Understanding light and how it affects exposure
• Photo Light boxes and light tents
• Using various types of backgrounds for your jewelry or craft item photography
• Using a water jug to photograph small items
• Digital darkroom basics
• Advanced image editing techniques
• How to eliminate glare and reflections
• Final words

Why you need great photos

One of the advantages of buying jewelry in a store is that you can look, feel, and try on the jewelry before you buy it. Your web sites photographs compete with that experience so they need to be terrific. If your jewelry does not look good on your web site then how can you expect someone to purchase it from you?

Your competition

If you want to be successful at selling jewelry online, you must have quality photographs of your products, otherwise people will just move on to the next jewelry web site. Thousands of artisans are competing with you to sell their jewelry online, either on an auction site, a craft venue, or on their own website. Unlike your local retail shops, online stores can attract potential buyers from anywhere in the world.

Here are the six most common tips that I have given to people who are having problems with their jewelry photography

1. Read the camera owner's manual and become familiar with your camera.
2. Move the camera as close to the subject as possible.
3. Use a tripod and the camera self-timer.
4. Keep the subject of the photograph focused.
5. Use your camera in both the horizontal and vertical position.
6. You don't have to spend any money on photo editing software.

You don't need to spend hundreds of dollars on additional photography equipment in order to take great jewelry photographs. You can take excellent jewelry pictures with a digital camera that is 2 mega pixels or greater and a small inexpensive tripod.

I use and highly recommend using GIMP to edit my photographs. GIMP is powerful open source software that can do just about everything Photoshop can do. Plus GIMP is FREE from http://www.gimp.org. Check out my photo editing ebook on GIMP.

One of the methods that I teach and use does not require using a tripod. This is actually my favorite method of close up photography. This method will also work for photographing small flat items like coins, stamps, arrowheads, and casino chips. I explain this method completely in my ebook.

Yes, you can spend hundreds and maybe a thousand dollars or more, for quality lighting, a photo light box or tent, and other accessories, but that is not really necessary for jewelry photography, unless you are planning on making a living as a professional photographer. Using inexpensive photography accessories allows you to spend your money on your business and yourself instead.

Making a good first impression on your visitors with your jewelry photographs is so important when selling online because if you don't impress your visitors within the first 5 to 15 seconds they will leave and never return. You only have one chance to make a good first impression.

Impress your visitors by improving your jewelry/craft photography using the easy to follow techniques that I teach in my ebook.

For an immediate download of this ebook please use this link to my Photography By Jim Juris Handmade Artists shop.

As a second option, you can Purchase my Inexpensive Jewelry Photography Techniques ebook from my Jim Juris studio on Artfire for $6.99. NOTE: an immediate download is not available on Artfire. I will send you the ebook as an email attachment, in PDF format, within 24 hours after payment is confirmed.

My Inexpensive Jewelry Photography Techniques ebook will teach you how to take pictures of jewelry and my GIMP photo editing ebook will teach you how to edit your jewelry pictures.

Thank you,

Jim Juris