Taking, borrowing and buying photos

15 February 2010
Posted in D.I.Y. Ecommerce - Borrowing, buying & creating quality graphics

Every e-commerce web site needs graphics and photos. Many of the my tutorials require you to use images. So here we will cover how to take them, buy them, modify and resize them. And very important for the web make them quick loading.

We will also look at free software for all your web graphics needs.

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Buying Photo's

04 December 2008
Posted in D.I.Y. Ecommerce - Borrowing, buying & creating quality graphics

The best two sources in my opinion are istockphoto.com and dreamstime.com. They are both great sources and have no minimum orders. Both require you to place $10 (£7 approx at time of writing) on your account. You can then buy pictures until that runs out.

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Editing and optimising pictures and graphics

04 December 2008
Posted in D.I.Y. Ecommerce - Borrowing, buying & creating quality graphics

Now you you know how to get the pictures you will need, here is a range of ways to use the provided software to create professional looking images for your store. There is the full GIMP manual in the Tutorials/Gimp_Tutorials folder on the disc with more extensive help and instructions. If you don't have the disc you can view the full manual at www.gimp.org. Here are the most common tools that you will probably use.

You can get GIMP for free from the required software resorces page.

Basic editing tools

Here is an introduction to the most used tools on Gimp. 

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