Sending us your photos

You don’t need a camera, a photographer, or any editing. The phone in your pocket is enough. This page shows what to point it at.

Before anything else: you don’t need to resize or shrink anything. Send us the photo exactly as your phone took it. We make every photo the right size for the web automatically.

The three photos that matter most

1. The cover — the wide one at the top

This is the first thing anyone sees. Stand across the road from your shop and photograph the whole front, sign and all. If you don’t have a shopfront, photograph your work instead: the finished blouse, the wired board, the plate of food.

Hold the phone sideways for this one. Wide, not tall.

2. The logo

If you have a logo on your board, your bill book or your visiting card, photograph it flat and straight on. If you don’t have one, skip it — we’ll use your initials, and it looks fine.

3. Your work

Six to ten photos of things you have actually made or done. Real work beats stock pictures every time — customers can tell the difference immediately.

What a good photo looks like

GoodDaylight. Shot in the morning or late afternoon. The thing fills most of the frame. Plain wall or plain floor behind it. Phone held steady with both hands.
Not so goodTaken at night under a tube light. Shot from far away. Cluttered background — other stock, wires, a parked bike. Flash bouncing off plastic or glass.

Photographing a product

  1. Put it against a plain wall, or on a plain cloth.
  2. Stand near a door or window so the daylight falls on it, not behind it.
  3. Hold the phone square on, not tilted.
  4. Fill the frame — get closer rather than zooming.
  5. Take three or four. Pick the sharpest afterwards.

Square photos work best for products. Around 800 × 800 or bigger, but again — don’t measure anything, just send what your phone took.

How to send everything at once

  1. Open WhatsApp and start a message to us.
  2. Tap the paperclip (Android) or the + (iPhone).
  3. Choose Gallery or Photos.
  4. Tap every photo you want — you can pick up to 30 at a time.
  5. Send. Then tell us in one message what each set is: “first three are the shop, rest are the work”.

iPhone users: if we tell you a photo won’t open, your phone is saving in a format called HEIC. Two fixes. Either change it once — Settings → Camera → Formats → Most Compatible — or just send the photo on WhatsApp, which converts it for you automatically.

What you don’t need to do

  • Don’t resize, crop or compress anything.
  • Don’t add filters, borders or text on top.
  • Don’t hire anyone. Daylight and a steady hand beat a studio for this.

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