What do you think?

A Sneak Peek from the Developer Desk: Lingerie from Tokokoo - Premium WordPress ecommerce themes for your small business

The 5 following tips will help you do it even better.

Shoot at high quality

How many megapixels is your smartphone camera? For example, iPhone 5 has a 8 MP camera.

Remember to clear some space on your phone memory and set the camera to the highest resolution. You need to take as many photos as possible to give you enough raw materials. This will give you many choices when you do the editing and resizing the photo in the next step.

Know your product image ratio on the website

Take a look at these 2 themes.

Sapatoo WooCommerce Theme

Terserah WooCommerce Theme

They apply different product image ratio on the product detail page. So, you need to shoot photos that will look good in the product image dimension used in your online store theme.

Follow rules of composition

There is a basic guideline in photography called the rule of thirds. The guideline proposes that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines, and that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections.

Use a model if possible

If you sell apparel or clothing stuff, try to use a model for your photo (if possible). Customers want to see how your cute skirt looks when it’s worn.

cute skirt – without model

cute skirt – worn by a model

Edit later

Always remember to edit the image later. No need to delete during the photo session. Take photos as many as possible for your raw images, and edit later on your PC.

And… that’s a wrap. Do you have any other tips for beginner in photography to maximize their smartphone camera? Your insight is very welcome in the comment box.

How to Take Good Product Photos Using Your Smartphone (2) from Tokokoo - Premium WordPress ecommerce themes for your small business

This deal is perfect for you who work on a client’s ecommerce website project. And also for you who is looking for advance designed WooCommerce theme for your own small business website or online store.

If you purchase this May deal, you’ll get 2 WooCommerce themes and 1 eCommerce UI kit for only $9. The normal price is $39 for each item, so you’ll save $108 with this deal. The deal will end on May 31, 2013.

Here’s the detail:

Sapatoo WooCommerce theme

Sapatoo is an elegant multipurpose theme comes with every advanced feature you need to launch a profitable business, whether it’s a small business website or an online store.

Bajigoor WooCommerce theme

BajiGoor is specially built for your online Kids Apparel store with warm and cheerful color as if entering a baby and kids shop. Designed with appealing features like Facebook integration and large homepage slider, convert every website visitors into customers since their first stop on your site.

3. Heavenly.ui

Heavenly is an ecommerce UI kit with fresh and clean style. It’s created for you, designers and web developers, to help you to build any ecommerce sites or shopping projects from bootstrap with ease. This package comes with original PSD files consist of 100+ ready-to-use UI elements that easily scalable.

Deal terms

• These themes require WordPress 3.4 and WooCommerce 2.0+.
• All themes can be used on unlimited domains, to create an unlimited amount of websites.
• You will receive a single user license.
• Support and updates are provided for 1 year.
• All themes are licensed under the GNU general public license and may be used for both personal and commercial purposes.
• The deal will end on May 31, 2013.

Click the button over here to purchase the May Deal.

May Deal: 2 WooCommerce Themes & 1 eCommerce UI kit for only $9 from Tokokoo - Premium WordPress ecommerce themes for your small business

A good looking website is crucial for your small business to get the impression of a well established and reliable business. And Arloji is designed to make your small business looks ‘big’.

The multipurpose design

We equipped Arloji with 3 mode options that you can utilize to build your ideal business website. You can make use of the Portfolio  to showcase projects you’ve had working on, or use Catalog to display things you’ve been producing on your business.

Also, Arloji is a WooCommerce-based theme that could run your online store website. Activate the Shop feature, upload your product photos and your store is ready to serve the first purchase.

If you sell your stuff on Facebook, Arloji has been integrated with Facebook so that you need not to upload product photos to your Facebook page. One upload to your admin panel is enough.

Complete features

• Theme customizer, that will help you customize your site and see the result live on the right screen
• 12 super custom widgets to help you personalize your website by drag-and-drop-ing Tokokoo ready-to-use widgets
• Full screen slider
• Multilanguage support with compatibility with WPML plugin
• Various post format for the blog, including video, audio, and gallery
• 6 view-products sorting options on the Shop page
• Support multiple product image on the product detail page

Arloji – Designed to Make Your Small Business Looks Big from Tokokoo - Premium WordPress ecommerce themes for your small business

But when you’re just starting out your own small business, chances are you still could not afford that expensive DSLR camera. The only things you have (with a camera attached) is your cell phone (or smartphone, specifically).

Is it possible to take a good product photo using cell phone? Take a look at the picture below.

photo by Yoshikazu TAKADA on Flickr

So, grab your Iphone now and start using it to capture your product photos.

Here are 4 useful tips to start with.

Clean the lens

First thing first, clean the lens.

A photographer keeps his valuable DSLR camera in a special bag or container. Where do you put your cell phone? Pockets, bags or on your dinner table?

Chances are the lens gets some dirt like dust and fingerprints. Clean the lens using a soft cloth like eyeglasses cleaning cloth.

Use a white background

You must put your product first. So avoid any background that will distract the attention from your featured product.

Using a white background is perfect. Put a piece of paper as the background, and you’re good to go.

photo from www.gantibaju.com

Shoot outdoor (or anywhere with decent light)

A studio with professional lighting? Yes, you’ll get a bright and sharp photo. But you can utilize other free resource.

Sunlight is a perfect lighting, and… it’s free! Take a shoot in the morning when the sun begins to climb up, not in the middle of the day. You do not need too much sunlight to get a bright picture.

Turn off digital zoom (and get close to your object)

This is important, turn off the digital zoom. Instead, get closer to your object to shoot a bigger and more detailed product photo.

photo by Danny Choo on Flickr

We’ll talk 4 more advanced tips in the next post. Stay tuned.

How to Take Good Product Photos Using Your Smartphone (1) from Tokokoo - Premium WordPress ecommerce themes for your small business