Please can anyone tell me how I use my mobile phone to create photos of my products that will fit into the ‘thumbnail’ photos on my folksy shop.
I seem to end up with parts of a product until the thumbnail is opened.
Your support and advice is greatly appreciated x
Jayne
White Cat Ceramics
It looks as if your images are rectangular. They need to be square to fit in the window. I tend to take further away, the change to square in iPhotos on my phone.
Ah, thanks. Is that the way i hold the phone. Do i need to change that?
I have to photograph slightly further away to ensure when I crop to square everting fits in.
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I’ve changed my settings to be square on my phone
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Can I edit photos within folksy?
No, you can only upload once edited.
If you’re taking photos on your phone and your items are tall, I find the easiest way to make sure you have enough background to crop them square with everything showing is to turn your phone around to landscape. Then the item can fill the height, and there’s plenty to the sides to cut off to make it square.
Alternatively, like @CrochetandI mentioned, you can also usually change the camera proportions so the photos it takes are already square and you don’t need to crop at all.
How you do this will probably be a little different with every phone/camera app, but for mine I open the camera, and then along the top there is an icon currently saying 3:4. If I click that, other options show such as 9:16, 1:1 and full. This is the proportions of the photo the camera will take. 3:4 are the dimensions you’d expect on a standard photo. Full fills whatever dimensions your phone screen is. 9:16 will usually fill most of the screen, and is the proportions Instagram stories use. 1:1 is square, so if you select this, the photos you take will be square and when you upload them to Folksy, nothing will be cropped off on your shop front.
It’s only the first photo of each listing that this really matters on, so if you have a tall item, you can use the 1:1 option to get a photo that looks good square for the first, and then have your closer tall images as the second photo.
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Thanks so much. This is really helpful x