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Thank you to the Etsy sellers who answered my previous set of questions. I’ve watched a few tutorial videos and I’m preparing to take the plunge.
If you have something you wish you would have known at the outset please share here.
I believe some sellers have moved away from the white and black backgrounds. I will be selling in the vintage category only. I mainly use solid colors and patterned premium scrapbook paper for solid items on eBay. Sometimes I use wood or paper with a wood plank print. Is this frowned upon or will it help me stand out? To my mind it is tastefully done but I’d like to hear feedback on this before I start listing.
Thanks again!
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Lots of sellers on etsy use other colors than white. My listings are mostly white because I cross post from eBay.
Very important to know though. eBay uses a square photo as your gallery photo. Etsy uses a photo with an 8×10 aspect ratio. If you don’t use a photo that already has an 8×10 ratio it will get cropped for etsy and sometimes look bad. Many sellers on etsy don’t pay attention to that and it can really ruin the presentation of your item. So if you start listing on etsy and can’t figure out why your photos keep getting weirdly cropped that is the reason 🙂
Also a lot of people do more staging of their items on etsy. So if you want to take the time you can do that.
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Nancy: Just ran into this with our first test item on the new Etsy store. Starting with just one listing to use as a test and work out the bugs.
All photos are on our rig and when we did the drag and drop it was from our photo directory. Yep, the first gallery photo was cropped harshly at the top and bottom. We use a 35mm digital camera, shooting at 1600×1200. rectangle format. We sometimes turn the camera side ways for tall vertical pieces. All of the Ebay photos turn out fine.
So, what is the preffered [we assume also the easiest and quickest way] to get that #1 Gallery photo sized correctly for using the drag and drop to Etsy?
We have approx. 750 items in our Ebay store x 12 or more photos each = approx. 9,000 photos +/-. Do we have to go back and re-size one photo of each item to be suitable for Etsy?
The Ebay photos as they come from the camera are already rectangles and you mention Ebay coverts it to a square, but we see that nothing is cropped out of the thumbnail that Ebay uses. So that means that the Ebay Gallery photos still come out fine just as we shoot them from the camera.Hope we don’t have to go back through 750 listings and do a resize on one photo.
Thanks for any input from all the Etsy sellers…. mc in atl.
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just keep in mind that for the first photo etsy prefers big and wide–I use the postcard setting on my camera, you also have limited function for editing on etsy. It is not ideal, I prefer ebay’s “square” but you gotta work with what is available.
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Hey Omfug: That first test photo was with the camera turned vertically. We shoot in a rectangle format even for Ebay, not a sqaure. 1600 l/r x 1200 u/d. And all turn out ok. When we turn the camera vertical for real tall items they still turn out ok. But that Etsy item was tall and Etsy chopped it off some top and bottom. Would we then be better off to always shoot items with our camera held horizontally, shooting in the 1200 x 1600 size for all shots in the future? That would mean on tall items we would have to back up somewhat and that will result in a smaller image, but maybe Etsy will auto crop and it will be larger. Unsure.
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for the first photo I always pull a little back and do a wide shot–see how it looks on etsy, Vertical shots really make you pull back–these are tall and this is about as close as I could get without etsy taking the top and bottom off: https://www.etsy.com/listing/517830939/antique-primitive-wood-wooden-indian?ref=shop_home_active_15
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Yep, that is exactly what I am talking about. We turned the camera vertically on that tall item. So we will just have to shoot everything holding the camera horizontally and backing up. Since we are just starting off, we will only start listing items that we did not turn vertically. But on the vertical ones we will have to re-shoot the first photos over in horz. format.
P.S. we had a pair of juggling table items just like yours sell about a month or so ago on Ebay. Ours were black, one taller and both had a parallel grove around them carved into the wood and filled in with gold paint.
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The ones we sold went for $69.95, paid $10.75 a consignment shop, I think. Never heard of or seen any barbells or weights made out of wood? Didn’t know there was such a thing. Live and learn.
Will be doing some experiments with photog tomorrow. Will see how it goes. Hoping to get in a position whereby as we create Ebay listings, then cross over to the second monitor and cut and paste and attach photos as we go. That way we will be doing the Ebay and Etsy at the same time. I stress the word “Hopefully” Thanks for your input Sue … 🙂 mike in atl.
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