One of the first big presents my husband gave me was a little Elna TSP, which I still have. It took me a while to gain the confidence to use but once I did I never looked back.
When my children were small I loved making clothes for them. they were tall and thin, so it was difficult to find things in the shops that fitted them.
For the last 4 years I have had a stall at some local markets selling baby and childrens gear but recently decided that my weekends are precious and that I should try my hand at selling online.
I thought it would be a good idea to write down my thoughts about this whole experience, this always helps me to clarify things in my head. So here goes.....................




Monday, November 5, 2007

Frill skirt in photoshop & other things.

There are so many things going on at the moment that my brain is not able to keep up!
I have managed to add at least one item a day to the shop and a few people are looking, bless 'em.
I haven't made my goals for November yet, other than to just hang in there. The weather last weekend was miserable consequently there were not many customers at either Hall markets or Old Bus Depot.
I've been learning heaps about taking photos, photoshop and etsy. I think that I should take photos of dark and medium coloured things on a light background and white or light coloured things on a dark coloured background. Although taking photos with a model looks nice and gives the clothes life the backgrounds are sometimes so busy that it makes "photoshopping" time consuming. So when I use a little person to wear the clothes I will be leaving most backgrounds in the shot, after all most of my time should be spent making the clothes not sitting at the computer for hours!
This is a photo showing one of the skirts to go onto the shop, very sweet, took a couple of hours to cut out and sew, it took a couple of hours to choose the group of shots to go onto the shop and tinker with them enough to figure out I should leave the background alone and just crop!

My other lesson was to write down my passwords, twice this week I went totally blank for two different passwords! Another couple of hours were wasted trying to remember them getting help e mailing across to the other side of the world and feeling really, really stupid.
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Vernon said...

I know this is an old post but with your password writing down dilemma, I thought I'd let you know of a program called RoboForm. It keeps your passwords stored in an encrypted file and works across a variety of browsers. I'm not affiliated with them at all, but I just thought it may make things easier for you. Good luck!

August 4, 2008 at 7:33 AM

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