FREE: Fancy Dangle with Swarovski Crystals on Sterling Silver Plated 20 chain

great job

This is neat, but I think the problem might be that it looks like gold instead of silver. Try adjusting the color to the cooler (blue) spectrum with your software. I get a lot of photos that make silver look like gold, and generally if I "cool" it off when editing it helps. If the item is just silver, I simply desaturate it enough to pull out all of the color, but that does't work so well when you have other color beads to worry about! In this case, I think it would have made your blue beads look bluer, which is okay because it is still accurate, but made the silver look less gold.

Yup, when you replace it look for one of the brighter white color bulbs. With a lot of brands available (sometimes even a store brand) they don't cost as much as they used to. You can even get daylight color bulbs now in the compact florescent, which last forever.

The best way to do that is to reduce the saturation, but that's a problem if there's other color in the piece, but sometimes reducing the saturation just a little brightens up the silver without desaturating the other colors too much. In this case I think you could've also made the whole thing more blue, which would have reduced the yellow and the crystals still would've been a nice and accurate blue color.

I don't mean to pick. Goodness know not all of my photos are perfect either. The photos I took all summer at my other house, most of those were pretty awful, even once I switched to using my higher-end camera (I like using the simpler cameras for these types of photos generally). I'm still using those photos and really should retake them all, but haven't gotten up the energy to do all that organizing!

I always kind of put off doing the photo project, but when I actually sit down and do it, it doesn't take long, even processing more than 100 photos. Once you use the various features in the photo software it gets easy to do it very quickly. I like to make my photos look the best they can in part due to hubris, but I also realize that the photos are the primary factor in how many bids you get on something. So, it's a good motivator!

I'm sure ... Arbon doesn't like to take care of the photos? Seems like he'd be good at it.

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