4 posts tagged “creations in glass”

I got really lucky Friday afternoon around 5:30pm our time.  As you can see by my last post, our yellow stained glass butterfly has made it to the Etsy Front Page via the 4 scrolling Knock Out Images. 

I received a convo from a friend to let me know that we had a piece in a front page treasury!  I was shocked because we haven't had much treasury exposure lately.  It has been kind of disheartening since I had spent well over a month photo-editing all of our images.

Here is the front page treasury with our SAILBOAT fused glass plate and our yellow butterfly in the corner as one of the knockout images

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Sara from Etsy Teams picked out this treasury, and I want to say thank you!  I am the founder of the Creative Glass Guild of Etsy street team, and you can visit our team website here: http://www.cgge.org to see lots of great glass in different styles!  We also have blog updates, articles and member spotlights :)

Please visit Sara's blog here and show her some love: http://girlscantell.typepad.com/

YES!  I am so excited and pleased to see one our images/pieces on Etsy's front page.  As far as I know, we've only been in a front page treasury 2 times.  I've been told numerous times that photos are so uber important on Etsy for exposure and selection into treasuries, gift guides etc.  So, I embarked on a month long, self taught photo editing adventure, more on that in future posts! 

So, the image is a little yellow butterfly suncatcher and it is featured on the front page as part of a series of 4 scrolling images in the upper right hand corner.  The images are called Knock Out Images from what I can tell.  Here is some more info on how they are chosen etc.  http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5641253&page=1 

They are clickable directly to the listing in your shop.  I noticed this because I was checking the majaba heart-o-tron site to monitor item hearts and views, and I had 3 new hearts in one day on that piece.  WOW!  So, I thought maybe it was featured in a front page treasury.  Then I saw it!

Here is the screen shot!  I was playing with Flickr photo editing tools, and accidentally included an extra black arrow mid page, ignore that one!

My butterfly on Etsy's front page!

So, this has resulted in 4 new hearts on that piece, and almost 30 new views to that piece just today.  It is really exciting and great exposure.  Here are my before & after pics of the image before and after editing in photo shop to make it a pure white background or knockout image!  I cropped it square, 6 in X 6 in and basically adjusted curves and used the magic wand tool to outline my piece and then adjusted the curves again in the background to make it pure white.  Here is a link to the tutorial I used:  http://theswitchboards.com/articles_professionalphotos.html

There are easier and more efficient ways to do this, I'm told, so here are a few other helpful photo-editing links:

http://lapellaart.blogspot.com/2007/11/product-shots-for-not-so-dumb.html

http://www.graphic-design-employment.com/photoshop-clipping-paths.html

I plan on posting more before and after pics in my upcoming blog entries.  Stay tuned and I'd love to hear from you!

Kris

Creations in Glass on Etsy Top 100 List 

I just found out about this new page from some of my Creative Glass Guild of Etsy team members.  I figured it couldn't hurt to get more exposure for free!

From what I can tell it is a ranking system of hits to and from your link on their ranked list!  I sent them a link to my banner and they place it on their site and they give me links to post on mine.  Check it out!

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