If you are like most internet surfers, you will spend much of your time hanging around websites with dynamic website content, or content that is updated constantly or personalized to your preferences. The age of static, archival websites is long gone, in in its place is a dynamic and powerful internet driven by PHP, ASP, CGI, and Java.

But setting up a website with full SQL support and advanced features is not an easy task, especially for someone who is still waist deep in HTML coding.

So...what to do?

Photography set up Camera settings Editing for Website Other Important Resources

Photography set up:

Your backdrop is your first concern. Where will you take pictures of your product, craft or object? Outdoor light seems to be most recommended background. The outdoor lighting helps to create beautiful pictures. For jewelry, this option is not best. It is harder to photograph jewelry than other crafts. For jewelry there are many other options for setting up a small photography studio.

How to Make My $15.00 Photo Studio http://www.home-jewelry-business-success-tips.com/jewelry-photography.html

Lapidary Art: Basic Jewelry Photography http://www.lapidaryart.com/projects_2.html

Photographing Jewelry for Print and Web http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/lessons/vault/index.html

Camera settings:

Each camera comes with their own terms. You will have to read your manual to decide what term they use for each of these settings. There are a few settings that you need to make on your camera.

Quality - I use middle setting. This takes really nice pictures, but does not use up as much disk space.

Picture Resolution - My camera has either High (1760 x 1168 pixels) or Standard (896 x 592 pixels). Use Standard setting.

Using a scanner to take pictures - Use highest setting for you scanner to scan your pictures. Then edit as you would pictures that you have taken with a camera.

Editing for Website:   Before we begin editing your photos there are a few things that you should know:

Do NOT save your photos in JPEG format until you are DONE editing. JPEG files do not take any changes very well. If you save it as a JPEG, then change size, picture quality goes down. Each time you open and change it, quality keeps getting worse. Save all of your original files in your photo editing programs format such as .psd for Photoshop.

Save all of your website pictures in size that you will use them on your site. Do NOT change size of them once you get them onto your website. This will cause them to lose their quality. I like my "thumbnail" pictures to be 125 pixels x 125 pixels. The smaller picture, quicker it will load.