Finally summer has come to Seattle, with perfect blue skies
that make me think about all the places in the world that are so polluted that
the sky is obscured even on a “clear” day. I fear that it’s only a matter of
time until this problem becomes worldwide, affecting even our little corner of
the West Coast. Pollution knows no city, county, state, or national boundaries,
so even if we do our part, that doesn’t guarantee that we won’t get second-hand
smog from those who don’t.
I really didn’t mean to write about this issue, it just came
out because it had was on my mind as I was walking outside today. What I’ve actually
been doing this week is working on upgrading my websites. The old orchidscents(original boutique) website is so ugly that I hate looking at it, and the
olympicorchids nursery website isn’t much better. I am in the process of
switching to a new e-commerce platform that will look better and work better,
but it’s a lot of work.
This week I put together a simple practice website for myjewelry-making activities. It's not finished yet, but it looks pretty good. The perfume website will
be similar, or at least on the same e-commerce platform, but I need all-new
photos of the bottles so that I can standardize the look of the store.
Yesterday I photographed all of the 30 ml bottles, and today I sized, cropped,
and Photoshopped the images. I found the perfect place to photograph bottles, a
stair rail that has bright indirect side/back lighting from a big window in the stair well.
It’s like being in a walk-in light tent.
The new photos need minimal processing and look a lot better than
the old ones, even though they were taken with my phone. I kind of like the two-tone background instead of the bottle floating in a sea of white. One of these days I
need to go to the Apple store and get them to figure out how to download photos
from my old camera, which is incompatible with the new Apple photo management
software. I still have to photograph other fragrance items for the website:
samples, discovery sets, soaps, oils, etc, but will probably do that on Monday.
Sunday is shipping day for everything, so I’ll be busy overseeing that.
I’m really looking forward to having an attractive and
functional perfume website with all of my products on it. Once that’s done, the orchid plant website is
next. There goes my summer vacation! But it’s all going to be worth it in the
end.
[All photos are mine]
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