[Wylie's Mom]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

Ok girls thanks for the tips. Yea I use an actual camera bc my cell camera is crap. It's an older HTC phone and it has what people are calling "purple haze". It's a hardware problem that the camera overheats and burns the lens, so everything is purple unless you are in bright direct daytime sunlight. It's sucks. It used to be pretty good in semi dark areas when new. So I have to use my actual camera. And since none of the cell companies are doing the 2 year contract thing with new free phones, I don't see either of us getting new phones any time in the near future. Bf's phone is even older! They are both the smaller smartphones from about 4-5 years ago.

@canana, I was only selling etsy for a long time, but there are so many things I don't like about etsy anymore. So many people selling things that aren't really handmade. But bc those sellers make etsy a lot of money they get away with it. It's totally unfair. then etsy started this "shop update" thing recently. I kept seeing other people's shops on my homepage and wondered how they did that. You have to upload through their app on phone only, so more workarounds. Then you can share with IG so that's when I started getting a bit more active on IG but still have to learn all the tricks. I keep getting tagged by bots with the whole "free followers" spam. It's so annoying. What is the point of fake followers if they aren't actually going to buy your stuff? Pointless!

UGH, I'm just so confused about the Shop Udpates thing, and how it all works and whether I should use it. I don't really understand it all to be honest. Where does this stuff post that you upload thru the app...like on social media or something...?

Originally Posted by Maximo

How does everyone take nice photos with their smart phones? Mine is only an iPhone 4, not the latest and greatest camera, but still should be decent. I think maybe I don't hold the phone steady enough when taking pictures.

I think good pics via the phone are hard! I have the iphone 5 and it's not the greatest camera at all. I find that the lighting really does need to be GOOD for the picture to even be just okay. And yup, super steady hands needed. I really do not like using the flash, ever, as the pics then look terrible.