"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 that 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...

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

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.
• Free Shipping! Save money by not having to pay for shipping charges like you would if you where purchasing a book that is printed on paper.
• Immediate Download! You never have to leave home to purchase my ebook.

Keep reading to learn how you can download 3 chapters of my ebook for free. No strings attached.

Quality jewelry, polymer clay, and other craft photography is easy once you know some key techniques. While many artisans create beautiful jewelry, they don't know how to take great photographs of their fabulous creations. The photos look bad so they miss out on sales.

I visited hundreds of artisan/ entrepreneur web sites and quickly saw the need for a focused ebook on quick photography techniques. Some of the web sites that I visited lack quality pictures. Their items on eBay, Itsy, and other sites looked bad compared to the photos on competitors' pages. With some practice and by using the knowledge that I will provide from my own experience, you should be seeing a great improvement in the quality of your digital jewelry photography very quickly.

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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

• Histograms and what they tell you about your images

• 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

Why you need great photos

Your competition

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 all of the features of your camera. For example, some of the things that you should become familiar with are the self-timer, setting the white balance and exposure values, how to take photographs using the manual or macro focusing settings, how to use the built in flash, how to zoom in and out from the subject of the photograph, and how to set the resolution you are going to use for taking your photographs.
2. Move the camera as close to the subject as possible. Use the LCD viewing screen on the camera, and fill up the screen as much as possible. This may mean that you will need to use the macro setting on your camera. Refer to your camera's owner's manual for the distance that the camera is designed for using the macro setting.
3. Use a tripod and the camera self-timer. Using these two items at all times will give you clear and sharp photographs.
4. Keep the subject of the photograph focused. Nobody likes to look at a photograph that is out of focus. If your photo is not focused properly, then retake the photograph.
5. Use your camera in both the horizontal and vertical position.
6. You don't have to spend any money on photo editing software. I use and highly recommend using GIMP. Gimp is powerful open source software that can do just about everything Photoshop can do. Plus GIMP is FREE! There are free tutorials online that will teach yo how to use GIMP.

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.

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.

You can download three chapters of my ebook in PDF format for free. The PDF file is compatable with both PC and Mac computer.

Here is the procedure to use in order to download the three free chapter of my ebook and read them. Right click on the link at the end of this paragraph, choose Save Link As, choose a destination for the PDF file such as your desktop. Once the file has been downloaded to your computer open up the file and read the three chapters. download three chapters of ebook

I sell this ebook on Booklocker.com for $12.95. This ebook is in PDF format so that it can be read on both PC and Mac computers. Use this link to purchase my ebook.
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As a second option, you may purchase this ebook using PayPal. Please email me for payment instructions if you would like to pay using a personal check or PayPal. email Jim

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.