The best main thumbnail photos I’ve seen in a while on Etsy are by the seller Above All Fabric. They sell, well, fabric of course. So the owner could easily show us squares of the goods, but for the main photo, they cropped out a circle “mask” (photo editing term). It’s so alluring, I marked the shop a favorite and had to write about it!

This technique may not work for most other sellers, but it’s an example that helps urge all of us to think of creative ways to display our items. What could you do with yours that would work for everything you make and/or sell?

And I do have a tip for this seller. Add more photos to the item pages, and leave them square or rectangle. I think we all like to see as much as possible, and this includes every bit of the fabric until it repeats.

This is a recap of this afternoon’s photography lab on color theory at Etsy’s Virtual Labs.

First of all, whether you visited the lab or not, we all need to review (and probably save to our hard drives for the future) a color wheel image..

There are six major ways to use this color wheel when taking photographs of your items for selling…

1. Monochromatic or Tone-on-Tone

You could take a bright blue item, and place it atop a dark or muted blue item, like so:

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