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My Tips and Tricks Credit Cards I use Propay to process my credit card transactions. I've used it for years and if you only do a few shows a year, it's a great service Here's the link: https://epay.propay.com/ Photography My Camera: I've had my camera for over a year now and all I can say is "Wow! What a difference!". I could not do decent pictures until this camera. It is the Nikon Coolpix 8800. I usually like to share but it is really, really hard for me to share this camera. Although they call this a compact camera, it is not little. It's rather large and heavy for a digital camera but it is so nice. Can you tell how much I like it?
Light Box: I kept putting off this purchase. I am so pleased that I finally got one. I bought an American Recorder SIB-100 Photo Studio-in-a-Box on Amazon for $69.29. I thought I'd have to spend $250.00 or make my own. The Studio in a Box is a great product at a good price. It comes with a tripod, lights and the diffusing box. It's completely portable and easy to set up and break down. I don't really like the lights it came with. I still need to purchase lights but the box works great outdoors in the sunshine. No more shadows and bright spots on my bead pictures!
With the camera and the light box I don't need to fuss with my pictures except for resizing and one small adjustment that I do in Photoshop. That one adjustment is the levels and I found this nifty trick in an article written by Lori Greenburg. I use the levels adjustment to set the white point and that's it! The tutorial is here: Digital Imaging For Glass Beads.
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