Ieri abbiamo analizzato come usare le lightbox per promuovere il proprio portfolio e quindi dare visibilitá alle fotografie che a volte non ottengono il successo sperato. Oggi invece guardiamo le lightbox dal punto di vista di chi desidera acquistare fotografie, illustrazioni, video o tracce audio su iStockphoto.com (foto copyright Grafissimo/iStockphoto.com)

Cos’é una lightbox?

La lightbox é una collezione. ( ) Permette al cliente di raggruppare tutte le fotografie per argomenti o per tipologia. É uno strumento molto utile per chi si occupa di piú progetti contemporaneamente, per chi ha necessitá di effettuare delle “scremature” agli archivi o per chi desidera trovare facilmente una serie di fotografie la prossima volta che si collegherá ad iStock.

Segui piú progetti contemporaneamente?

Organizza il tuo lavoro in lightbox. Crea una collezione differente per ogni progetto che stai seguendo ed inserisci in tale lightbox tutte le fotografie che pensi ti potranno interessare. A volte puó essere utile far scegliere le fotografie al cliente inviando l’indirizzo della lightbox. In questo modo non farai confusione tra i vari progetti che segui e avari sempre sotto controllo la situazione.

Non riesci a deciderti?

Le fotografie che vedi sono tutte cosí belle che non riesci a decidere quale sia meglio acquistare… é una situazione comune non ti preoccupare Organizzati con una lightbox! Inserisci in questa collezione tutte le fotografie che colpiscono la tua attenzione e poi prenditi un po di tempo per liberare la mente e fare qualcos’altro. Ritorna a guardare la lightbox, con tutte le fotografie che hai scelto. Avrai una visione globale di tutte le foto e potrai capire quali sono gli aspetti positivi e quali quelli negativi e potrai scremare la selezione eliminando una fotografia alla volta fino a quando ne resterá soltanto una!

Hai trovato una foto e vuoi acquistarla nei prossimi giorni?

Per non “perderla” nell’archivio e non dover rifare la ricerca con le parole chiave hai varie soluzioni:

• lightbox: salva la foto in una lightbox e non la prossima volta che ti colleghi la troverai lí dentro
• codice numerico: annota da qualche parte il codice numerico della foto, la prossima volta che ti colleghi sará sufficente digitare il codice numerico nel box di ricerca e la foto sará trovata in un attimo!
• bozzetto: scarica il bozzetto con la filigrana e NON cambiare il nome del file. Oltre a non dimenticare visivamente la fotografia che vuoi acquistare, hai anche il codice della fotografia salvato nel nome. Piú facile di cosí…

Dove trovo le mie lightbox?

Puoi cliccare sul menú in alto a destra LIGHTBOX oppure salvare questo indirizzo nella barra dei preferiti del tuo browser: http://italiano.istockphoto.com/lightbox.php

Questo articolo é aperto a suggerimenti e miglioramenti, quindi se hai qualcosa da aggiugnere fatti avanti!

Buon lavoro e buona creativitá!

Hai realizzato una serie di fotografie molto belle, le parole chiave sono perfette eppure vendi solo una foto ogni tanto e alcune foto, forse le piú belle, non hanno la visibilitá che meritano. La soluzione puó essere una Lightbox.

Cos’é una lightbox?

É una collezione di fotografie. Il fotografo ha la possibilitá di realizzare delle collezioni di foto suddivise per argomenti in modo da mettere assieme tutte le fotografie simili e facilitare le ricerche al cliente.

Privata o pubblica

Le lightbox possono essere private, cioé relizzate solo con le fotografie di un fotografo oppure pubbliche, cioé con foto provenienti da artisti differenti. Le lightbox possono anche essere miste: foto, video, illustrazioni, ecc. Se volete promuovere i vostri lavori dovrete orientarvi sulle lightbox private.

Come si aggiungono le foto alla lightbox?

Hai due modi per inserire i file in una lightbox. Nella pagina delle miniature delle fotografie, al fianco di ogni foto cé una piccola icona di una lampadina con un “piú”. Cliccala e crea una nuova lightbox o aggiungi le foto alle lightbox esistenti. Oppure… clicca su un’immagine e dove vedi la foto ingrandita clicca su “Aggiungi alla Lightbox” sotto all’immagine.

Come mi promuovo?

Devi fare in modo che la tua lightbox sia visibile. Per farlo, il posto giusto sono le tue immagini. Sotto ad ogni tua fotografia che fa parte di una collezione devi inserire un link alla lightbox. In questo modo un cliente che guarderá una tua fotografia avrá la possibilitá di vedere con un solo clic tutte le fotografie simili o dello stesso argomento e le probabilitá che una delle tua foto sia gradita e acquistata sono maggiori. Personalmente sono molti i casi in cui le foto di una stessa serie sono acquistate in gruppo, questo perché il cliente ha la possibilitá di scegliere ció che preferisce da una serie senza perdersi nelle ricerche tra 5 milioni di immagini.

Come si inserisce il link?

Ci sono due modi per effettuare un collegamento: testuale o grafico.

Il link testuale é piú facile. Devi copiare l’indirizzo internet della lightbox e scriverlo al di sotto della fotografia, nella descrizione dell’immagine e aggiungi un testo descrittivo del tipo “Vuoi vedere foto simili? Dai un’occhiata a questa lightbox!”

Il link grafico necessita di un codice UBB e hai bisogno di un server su internet dove mettere le tue foto di “copertina”. Il codice per realizzare la lightbox é il seguente:

[url=http://www.istockphoto.com/my_lightbox_contents.php?lightboxID=XXXXXXX]
[img]http://www.miosito.com/copertina.jpg[/img][/url]

XXXXXXX é il codice della vostra lightbox visibile nella barra degli indirizzi del vostro browser.  Il codice UBB va scritto nella descrizione dell’immagine.

Inoltre mmac72 (grazie Marco!) ha contribuito con questa precisazione molto interessante:

Aggiungerei che, se dopo il numero del lightbox XXXXXXX, si aggiunge il termine
“refnum=username” si possono guadagnare anche i 10$ del referral.
Faccio copia e incolla da un mio link ad un lighbox per dare un esempio.

[url=/file_search.php?action=file&lightboxID=3832973&refnum=mmac72][img]/file_thumbview_approve.php?size=1&id=5660592[/img][/url]
Bene non ti resta che organizzare il tuo portfolio… buon lavoro!

foto copyright bravobravo/iStockphoto.com

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Ugh…I tell ya. I am NOT inspired. I want to do something awesomely creative, but alas…the ideas are not here.  They’ve stepped out…please leave a message…beep.

I’ll take this moment to do two things.

(1) Share with you a song… How about this one? Sugar High.

(2) Next, lemme tell you a story about my neighbor, aka, “The Crazy Lady”. I feel amused and slightly annoyed, so I thought I’d share. I live next door to a little old lady who seems nice and innocent if you do NOT live near her. But to us next door, and those living upstairs from her, she is BAD! She once accused our upstairs neighbor of making erotic noises for three hours. She said she had proof as she recorded these noises…IN HER JOURNAL! I would love to see this journal. lol. About two years ago she aggresively harrassed me and my husband. We caught her outside smelling our windows and when she caught sight of us she began screaming  that our children stink. We don’t HAVE children. Oh man, it was strange, and we couldn’t calm her so we finally called the police. I know I know, how horrible to call the police on a little old lady. But she is scary. lol. Anyways, the police and property management told her very firmly not to harrass us anymore, and she hasn’t, but after that she hung an air freshner on her front door. You know, one of those little evergreen trees you hang in the car…no joke. I’m always tempted to just yank it off and toss it in the bushes, but I don’t want any trouble. Then today I noticed she has added a SECOND little tree to her door knob! A silent indication that she still believes we have smelly children. Ooooooh  ….she’s a nasty little thing. I wish she was one of those nice little old ladies I could bake cookies for, but oh well…at least it’s amusing.

lightbox were commissioned to photograph and highlight the vast range of Freedom Pools
swimming pool range. The pool photographs where then submitted to the Industry awards
where our photographs provided the company awards ranging from bronze to Gold medals.
sample pool:

Landscape & Architectural photography by lightbox

Yesterday saw the first Content is King conference take place in the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin. Organised by Media Contact, the conference promised some world-class speakers which we certainly got.

First up we had Tom Hayes from Lightbox, an award-winning Irish web design company. Tom was there to show us how to produce a winning website and went into some detail of layouts and the importance of placement of various elements of a website and how a simple a change of name or more forceful calls to action can change the success of a website.

Will McInnes, well known online marketer and director of Nixon McInnes was there to give a very entertaining talk about blogs. Will showed us how to take a simple blog and add to it to make it a lot more than ‘just a blog’. He told us about adding widgets and gave some examples of companies who have used very simple but innovative ideas to transform their online business. One such example was Nike Plus, who have created an online community of exercise enthusiasts with their Nike Plus digital pedometer, which can be inserted in a running shoe to take details of a run and then the data can be uploaded to your profile and shared with other runners and enthusiasts.

Next up was Social Media, marketing and communications expert Krishna De. Krishna gave 20 useful tips on social media in 20 minutes and got everyone thinking about which elements of social media will best suit their business and how to stand out from the crowd.

The mid-morning session was concentrated on how to create videos and podcasts that stick. First speaker Joe Conway from Digicast gave us an insight into the best way to create a podcast. Some of the tips were very helpful, from what equipment one needs -digital recorder, microphone, headphones, computer – to how to talk into the mic to avoid pop sounds -speak into it sideways.

Phil Scott Vice President, Consumer Digital Group of Kodak was up next and he brought us through the history of Kodak and their technologies and how they are used by businesses to create high quality videos.

The final speaker was Colin Hetherington from Zoo Digital who came to speak about how to make a winning video and boost it with guerilla PR. Colin had some interesting insights though I’m not sure that telling people to get their video on the ‘most viewed’ page on YouTube by any means necessary was a great idea when spam is such a problem for companies these days. You can see all of Colin’s presentation here as he has kindly uploaded it for Content Is King attendees.

That was the end of the morning session and after the lunch break there was an interesting panel discussion about viral videos. Sophie Merry of Groovy Dancing Girl fame was there as well as the participants and creators of a new video for Age Action, Growing Up Is Optional. Age Action are hoping that this quirky, funny video will go viral and promote Age Action and the elderly.

You can follow all of the tweets from yesterday by going to http://search.twitter.com and searching for #CIK the hashtag used yesterday.

Growing Up Is Optional from Age Action:

follow us on twitter – you can tweet away at www.twitter.com/lightboxphoto

Thanks

Darren D.

Desde que me rebané la sesera para hacer funcionar el efecto Zoomi con JQuery hasta ahora ha pasado mucho tiempo. Ahora ya comienzo a comprender el asunto y hacer funcionar un script como Lightbox no me supone un quebradero como aquel pero me gusta dejar una memoria para futuros proyectos y para que sirva de apoyo a algún que otro lector.

Tras buscar por la red un efecto bonito y sencillo para incorporar a unas imágenes de una pequeña web que me han encargado opté por Lightbox por ser un script sencillo de implementar y con un resultado visual muy atractivo y elegante como puede verse aquí.

En la web oficial vienen detallados todos los pasos para implementarlo pero vamos a hacerlo aquí de una manera más descriptiva a la vez que usamos KompoZer para realizar la mayor cantidad de trabajo posible en un modo de edición visual y no picando código (aivá, parezco un profesional auténtico)

Una vez descargada la última versión de Lightbox, en mi caso la 2.04 descubrimos que tras descomprimir hay una carpeta con varias subcarpetas:

• css: incluye el archivo para el estilo de la página. En su momento tendremos que enlazar nuestros HTML a este CSS.
• images: con todo lo necesario para que el script muestre botones, cargadores… En su momento crearemos algunos nuevos para que nuestro script muestre esta información en español.

• js: donde se encuentran los javascripts necesarios para que todo esto funcione.

Además tenemos al lado de estas carpetas un archivo llamado index.html para poder acceder a un tutorial sobre la puesta en marcha del script y que usa las imágenes de antes.

Tenemos una imagen en tamaño miniatura y la original a tamaño real que saldrá al ejecutar el script:

Lo primero es ir al código y pegar entre <head> y </head> las tres líneas que llaman a los javascripts.

Tal y como puede verse en las rutas relativas (js/..) se está dando por supuesto que nuestro archivo estará situado al lado de la carpeta js, por lo que si nuestro archivo va a llamarse index.html debemos renombrar el del tutorial o se sobreescribirá.
Bien; pues ya tenemos las llamadas a los javascripts insertados. La llamada al CSS vamos a hacerla desde el editor visual. Se supone que ya tenemos guardado nuestro proyecto como index.html al lado de la carpeta js; así que vamos al editor de CSS (Herramietas/Editor CSS) y escojemos Hoja de estilos enlazada:

Una vez marcada la ruta hacia la carpeta css y su archivo lightbox.css ésta aparecerá en la lista de hojas de estilo:

Con esto se ha creado automáticamente (entre <head> y </head>) la siguiente línea en el código…

…que es exactamente la misma que nos dice el tutorial que podíamos insertar a mano.

Es el momento de incluir la miniatura en el proyecto (Insertar/Imagen) y de crear en ella un enlace (Insertar/Enlace) cuyo destino es la imagen grande.

Para que al hacer clic sobre la miniatura se produzca el efecto deseado tan sólo tenemos que asignarle al enlace el atributo rel=”lightbox”. Para hacerlo de manera gráfica, sólo tenemos que hacer clic derecho sobre la etiqueta <a> en la parte baja de la interfaz (hay que asegurarse de tener seleccionada la miniatura en cuestión):

Esto nos despliega un cuadro en el que escogemos en el campo de la izquierda en atributo rel y escribimos en el de la derecha el valor lightbox:

La apariencia después de la animación que amplía la imagen es esta:

¿Qué podemos hacer a partir de aquí?.
Pues cambiar la imagen que incluye el texto CLOSE y la X por un nuevo GIF como este:

Y también podemos insertar un pie de página para hacer una descripción de la imagen siempre que le añadamos a la etiqueta <a> el atributo title del mismo modo que antes le añadimos el atributo rel.
Este sería un ejemplo en el que ya se incluye el cambio de la imagen para salir del efecto:

 

¡Listo!

Ya tenemos el efecto lightbox para esa imagen. Puede ver el ejemplo aquí.

NOTA: es posible hacer que al ejecutar el javascript se muestre una secuencia de imágenes con una agradable transición entre ellas. El método a seguir es añadir entre corchetes el nombre del grupo al que pertenecen las imágenes a mostrar. Lo mejor es un ejemplo:

Esto hace aparecer nuevos botones que quizá deberían ser sustituidos por versiones en español y un texto que dice, por ejemplo, Image 2 of 6 (en inglés).
Después de mirar algo el asunto he visto que esto puede cambiarse si accedemos al archivo lightbox.js con un editor del tipo Gedit para Linux o Notepad++ para Win y editando en esta parte:

TV Advertising and Corporate image:

It was great to see on TV the finished photographs used in “Lifestyle Lightings”
new TV commercial. here are some images from the shoot.

The Miss Wagga 2010 Crowning photographs will be available for viewing today by clicking

this misswagga link or select the Miss Wagga link in our link section of the website
to view or purchase the photos.

Thanks to the Committee for all their assistance throughout the year.
Kind Regards
Darren and Kylie

Miss Wagga Crowning 2010

I used the red channel in Photoshop to print a cartoon of this design for tracing. I darkened some of the lines with a black Micron pen and also added a few extra lines here and there to delineate major colour gradations.

Then I traced it with an HB pencil and my lightbox. That lightbox is the best $50 I’ve ever spent. In an ideal world I would have bought one with a huge surface area but even this little box is a huge help to me.

This is now ready to stitch. I think I’ll probably start with the smaller elements, particularly the “spears” of black/brown and the spears of colour near the middle left.

Say goodbye to the boring default browser dialog boxes you are using on your website or online applications, here is Dialogs.JS!

The component comes with custom alert, confirm and prompt boxes, a couple of handy JavaScript methods that emulate the behavior of the “real” browser dialogs, really small footprint and 12 skins that will fit virtually any design. You get lightbox-style modal overlay, cool buttons, keyboard navigation (Enter and ESC keys), rounded corners input of the prompt… Everything so Web 2.0 and easy to use!

Dialojs.JS is already included in the latest version of Acid.JS Web 2.0 Component Libary, so you may get it with a bunch of other cool website widgets.

WARNING!: post kilometric.

I has a happy! Am terminat de montat mini studioul (care nu e chiar studio, dar nu stiu cum altfel sa-i zic).

Here it is:

Light tent (lightbox) + tripod + home made lighting set – inaltime max 150cm – the “HOW TO(ish)” mai jos.

ca testare am pozat my “photo gear”:

HOYA HMC Close-up set (+1, +2, +4) (click it to enlarge -better qual)

Filters:  Hoya Polarizare circulara,  Hoya close-up set,  Filtru protectie (click it to enlarge -better qual)

My first love, Estreiu’ (click it to enlarge -better qual)

My true love (click it to enlarge -better qual)

Nikon D80 + filtre (click it to enlarge -better qual)

(toate au fost puse pe o masa foto 30×30 cm, acrylic alb/negru)

 
The lighting set “HOW TO(ish)” + o portie mare de “showing off”
 

Z: reflexia aia e grozava
ot1: na vezi
Z: ma lasa fara cuvinte
ot1: si radeai de mine ca mi-am luat masuta aia
Z: I did not!
ot1: did 2
Z: cu lumina cum e?
Z: ai gasit bec sau cum ai rezolvat ?
ot1: weeeeeeeeell
ot1:
ot1: nu )
ot1: dar
ot1: mi-am pus cate doua
ot1: adica
ot1: nu mi-am luat stative si lampi
ot1: ca un singur stativ e 90 de lei
ot1: plus lampa cu bec 300 lei
ot1: 400 lei pe una
ot1: si imi trebuiau 2
Z: pfff
ot1: asa ca
ot1: stii ca aveam trepiedul ala stricat
Z: care?
ot1: ala gri
Z: era stricat? :|
ot1: didn’t i tell you?
Z: nu cred
ot1: ca nu suporta greutatea d80-ului
Z: aaaa
Z: pai nu era stricat
ot1: and i broke it
ot1: oh yes it was:))
Z: you broke it?
ot1: yep :d
ot1: stiam ca nu suporta greutatea, dar tot l-am fatait
ot1: and i broke it )
ot1: anyway, that’s not the point
ot1: cum statea degeaba
ot1: mi-am mai luat unul
ot1: la fel
ot1: si initial 2 spoturi, dar cum n-am gasit becuri mai puternice, mi-am luat 4 spoturi
ot1: si 4 becuri fluorescente de 23w (130w equivalent)
ot1:
Z: wow
Z: si acum ai doua spoturi pe un trepied ?
ot1: yup
Z: mind if I see the contraption?
Z: sunt curios cum arata tot setul
Z: sigur ca rezultatele sunt grozave! dar sunt curios de micutul tau laborator
ot1: dexter am i
ot1: there it is
Z: wow!
Z: just wow
ot1: awesome shit huh? :>
Z: very
Z: si ce trepied meserias ai
ot1: mamma is v proud
Z: >:D<
Z: so it should be!
Z: ma tot mir cum ai reusit sa pui becurile alea pe trepied
ot1: hehe
Z: dude …
Z: you really need to change your carpet
Z:
ot1: damn right
ot1: eram very young when they bought it
ot1: n-am putut sa il aleg eu back then
ot1: and i got stuck wiff it
Z: soooo
ot1: but hey, it's got pretty colors
ot1: it cheers me up
Z: cum ai facut sa pui becurile alea pe trepied ?
ot1: well…
ot1: cand s-a stricat trepiedu' ala vechi
ot1: s-a rupt partea aia de sus
ot1: unde venea pus aparatul
ot1: siiii
ot1: undeva are o chestie de-aia, surub-ish
ot1: de rotesti sa invarti aparatul
ot1: stii?
Z: da
ot1: pe-aici
ot1: na si ala e un surub mare
ot1: si am putut sa pun surubul ala in spoturi
Z: :|
ot1: ca aveau si ele niste gauri pt alte suruburi
Z: asa usor ?
ot1: it wasn't easy man
ot1: ca nu erau chiar de aceeasi dimensiune
Z:
Z: I want one of these!
ot1: )
ot1: dintre astea cu d80 care e mai pretty
Z: pai, nu prea pot sa spun
Z: din cauza ca nu le pot vedea cum trebuie
ot1: cum nu
Z: in poza mica apar tot felul de linii
Z: trebuie sa dau click pe zoom sa mareasca sa le vad ca lumea
Z: stai sa iti scot un screenshot sa vezi
Z: crap
Z: that didn;t work very well
Z: am facut paste, totul era in regula, pana am salvat
Z: atunci au disparut liniile
Z: :|
ot1: de la placa video
Z: ?
ot1: e cumva serialul in background? pe pauza?
ot1: ca asa pateam eu cu pc-ul vechi
Z: da
Z: de unde stii ?
Z:
Z: ei fir-ar …
ot1: daca vedeam un film si il puneam pe pauza
Z: deci de la asta e?
ot1: si ma uitam la poze
ot1: se vedeau aiurea
ot1: yep
ot1: daca inchizi ala o sa le vezi cum trebuie
Z: you are absolutly right
Z: acum se vede bine
ot1: aren't you glad that you have smart friends?
Z:
Z: no!
Z: )
ot1: )
Z: smart ass
Z: alta viata
ot1: )
Z: 79
Z: wait !
Z: 91
Z:
ot1: )
ot1: deci daca ai vedea ce e sub birouri )
ot1: plin de cabluri si prelungitoare
Z: asta nu se vede din poze
ot1:
Z: lasa ca ti se merita
Z: ti-a iesit foarte bine asa
ot1: well i like em
ot1: cablurile
ot1: i feel all…
Z: dexterish
ot1: http://i6.ebayimg.com/03/i/001/3b/33/0431_12.JPG
ot1: ce tare )
ot1: e stick
ot1: i would love one of those ^.^

jQuery is a very handy and powerful technique that programmers and designers can use to make their sites interactive and compatible with a wide range of browsers. Here are some useful jQuery plugin resources based on navigation and browsing that I obtained from Smashing Magazine. Enjoy!

Leopard Desktop with jQuery using jqDock

This jQuery using jqDock can help you create a completely coded Dashboard like Leopard.

jQuery (mb) Menu 2.6

This is a powerful jQuery component to build a multilevel tree menu or a contextual menu with a right click in an intuitive yet easy way.

Advanced jQuery Keypress Navigation

Based off “A fancy Apple.com-style search suggestion,” but new and improved with keypress accessibility, this handy keypress navigation in included with this useful jQuery resource.

jQuery.popeye 1.0

This is major release, completely rewritten and overhauled, of jQuery.popeye. It is an image gallery plugin that started as an alternative to the famous JavaScript lightbox.

Pikachoose jQuery Image Gallery (demo)

Pikachoose is a lightweight jQuery plugin that allows easy presentation of photos with options for slideshows, navigation buttons, and auto play. Pikachoose is designed to be easy from installation to setup.

Supersized – Full Screen Background/Slideshow jQuery Plugin

The Supersized jQuery plugin can resizes images to fill the browser while maintaining image dimension ratio. Additionally, it can cycle images/backgrounds via slideshow with transitions and preloading. The navigation controls allow for pause/play and forward/back.

Space Gallery – jQuery Plugin

Spacegallery is a Javascript image gallery with a jQuery plugin. After setting parameters, images are animated with perspective style. When you click the front image, it fades in a smooth animation and is replaced with the next image. Although designed with one way navigation, it is a cool gallery when only a limited number of images need showcased.

tabSwitch

tabSwitch is a tab/slider plugin for jQuery. With this plugin, you can make a tab box system with the least of code and still fully customizable. Currently, you can choose from 7 different effects with 2 view styles, as well as hot swap the effects around in runtime.

I plan to design a portion of a song for this Music Video Projector.

SONG: Fujiya & Miyagi – Collarbone (2:01 – 2:53)

CONCEPT: To follow the lyrics as faithfully as possible, while labeling the parts of the skeleton mentioned in the song.

INSPIRATION:

STYLEFRAMES:
1. SUPERBRIGHT
Playing off the childish nature of this section of the song, I tried to fuse the colors of the mesmerizing neon x-rays with addictive candy colors. Playful. Jovial. The labels are in the background, but it is the quirky bones that take center stage.

2. CLASSIC
This will have a very ancient, vintage, organic atmosphere. A full body, realistic rendering will be marked up with circular pencil marks which will reveal a “pencil x-ray” of the bones underneath the layer of skin. This will be complemented by handwritten labels giving a modern day interpretation to classical analysis.

3. LIGHTBOX
X-Rays are illuminated on top of a lightbox. Hands will present and then drop X-Ray Sheets onto a light box as the song continues, with strong, aggressive labels naming each bone.

That’s it for now. Community is a good show. Seacrest Out.

This is a job for the boys in forensics.

After months of photographing my work with so-so results, I decided it was time to invest in a lightbox. And what better way to do it than to Do It Yourself? In search of the perfect supplies, I raided my parents basement and came across my favorite childhood toy: a box of K’nex!If you’re wondering what a lightbox can do for you, look no further than my dingy-yellow digital ‘graphs in the K’nex building portion of this tutorial, then compare those to these images taken inside of the completed K’nex lightbox. Lightboxes keep your colors looking bright, reduce shadows, and make sure your images look clean and professional. Follow the tutorial below to create your own… [read - spinhandspun.wordpress.com]

Pictures are worth a thousand words! And in the online selling world, pictures can make or break your business. When you go to the store and shop you are able to try things on, see their true color under different light, feel the texture and material, and get a good idea of just what it is that you’re buying — right?! But what happens when the items you are trying to buy are listed on the internet? You can’t feel, smell, touch, or hear … all of your senses are disabled with the exception of sight. You are going to judge whether you like or dislike that item based on the way it is presented in the pictures that are listed.

So, what does this mean for sellers on the internet? This means that if you want to maximize the number of sales you have, you need to present your items in the best light possible (every pun intended here!). 

If you’re like me, you don’t want to spend money if you can do it yourself and yield the same results. One day I was at my local photography store I saw one of these “Pop-Up” light tents. It consisted of a collapsible white fabric box with a hole in the front and 3 lights – used for photographing small objects in photographic studios (like the shot of the chocolate reindeer to the left).

I was going to purchase it until I saw the $100 price tag. No way I am going to spend $100 on some fabric and 3 lights when the material costs far less. So I set off and built one of these light tents and it did not come out bad at all.

Here are the tools and items you will need to get started:

• A Box — any box will do. The size of the box will depend on the items that you are selling.
• Fabric — any type will do, but it is recommended that you buy a white muslin. You will need to buy enough to cover the entire box that you have chosen to use.
• Tape
• Glue — a glue stick or spray adhesive is fine (really any glue is fine, liquid just takes long to dry)
• White bristol board (a heavey weight paper that is used for drawing) — I would suggest that you buy about four of these because you will need to do a little cutting
• A Light — a bright desk lamp will work best for small and medium sized boxes. A clamp light may work well for larger boxes.

Here is the process:

• Take your box with a tape ruler and marker and measure in 2″ from the side of the box marking multiple points with your marker. When your done you will see your border, connect the points using your straight edge to where you should have a nice looking square/rectangle in the middle of the box with a 2″ border around it. Leave the top and bottom of the box alone as you will not need to mark it 
  

  STEP 1

• Cut out the boxes you’ve drawn. Repeat that to the sides of the box where you have drawn the boxes. When you’re done, cut off the top of the box or remove the flaps on the top of the box. LEAVE THE BOTTOM INTACT!
• Now take your Bristol board and make lines with your marker for every two inches 16 times. Then proceed to cut out 16 strips with your scissors. Glue the paper strips into the box. Make sure the side with marker goes against the cardboard so it can not be seen.

STEP 3

• Take another piece of Bristol board and cut is so the width is the same as the inside of the box and the length is much longer then the box.  Place the long piece of Bristol board into the box to where the piece curves to the bottom. Avoid creasing as it will show up in your photo. Cut off excess paper that is sticking out the top.

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   STEP 4

• Cut your fabric to where it will cover the holes. Then cut a big piece to where it will cover the top of the box.  Tape the fabric to cover the holes in the box except the one that is facing your background. Then tape the top piece on.
  

  STEP 5

YOU’RE DONE!! Now all that you have to do is light the box.

Voila!

There are many variations on creating a light box, but this is what I have found works for me. If you are having a shadow problem then I suggest lighting the other sides of the boxes. Once you have it constructed, feel free to play around with your new construction and have fun!!

Happy photographing, and I’ll see you at checkout!

After months of photographing my work with so-so results, I decided it was time to invest in a lightbox. And what better way to do it than to Do It Yourself? In search of the perfect supplies, I raided my parents basement and came across my favorite childhood toy: a box of K’nex!

If you’re wondering what a lightbox can do for you, look no further than my dingy-yellow digital ‘graphs in the K’nex building portion of this tutorial, then compare those to these images taken inside of the completed K’nex lightbox. Lightboxes keep your colors looking bright, reduce shadows, and make sure your images look clean and professional. Follow the tutorial below to create your own…

	Knex lightbox. Knex structure without screen. Screen removes to photograph both from top and side. Photographing from the top. Photographing from the side. Three eyelets per corner. Eylets overlap onto Knex to hold screen in place at corners

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