God's True Light

Do your eBay photos look like this?

If so, you’ve got a LIGHT problem! I don’t know about you – but I’m a person who likes light. One of the reasons I’m not a huge fan of winter is not because of the cold, but because of the light! It’s not just that there are fewer hours of light, but winter light has a narrower spectrum (that’s one of the big clues trees use to know when it’s time to shed their leaves).

I digress. The point is that in order to have great photos on eBay, one big thing you can do is to take photos with a full spectrum of light. What is one of the best sources of the full spectrum? You guessed it – that big yellow thing in the sky…..the sun.

If you’re eBaying in a cave – take some of that stuff outside, find a nice plain background, and try taking photos in sunlight – you’ll be surprised how well they turn out.

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Sizing up eBay pictures the right way

So it just breaks my heart every time I see an eBay listing with a picture that looks like this:

How much of the space on that image is being wasted? It's like a sea of blue!

Well, don't despair - there is an easy fix. If you're working in Windows - all you have to do is open up your Paint program (it's under accessories). Once you're there, just

1) Select the area of the image that's important
2) Left click, select cut (you'll see an empty white spot now)
3) Go down to the lower left and shrink the image field so just a bit of the box shows in the upper right corner
4) Left click inside the reduced work area, click paste
5) Then just save it.

It takes about 20 seconds. Now you have something that looks like this: