This contest is now closed.
Winner Announcement:
Results generated by Random.org chose Melissa (from The Daily Mel) as the giveaway winner. Melissa, watch your inbox for details 😉
Jen at Funk & Weber Designs has teamed up with scrapbooking teacher Melissa to bring you this information packed learning event on how to take and present the best photos of your needlework and craft items.
So if you’ve been frustrated with your camera skills and you want Pinterest worthy snapshots to upload to your website or even your Etsy store, this is a great opportunity to learn some tips from the pros.
Best Photo Forward: Refining Photos of Fine Embroidery. The webinar will be held March 20 at 8:00 p.m. EST and includes the following:
- Access to the live workshop
- Handouts and resources used in the event
- Ongoing access to the workshop recordings
- Sample files so that you can follow along with the demonstrations
- BONUS Photo Fixes for Real People – a jump start on using Photoshop Elements to improve your photos (Valued at $20).
- BONUS Jen’s Top 10 Ways to Use Images of Our Embroidery
Melissa and Jen will teach you useful photo editing tidbits like…
- How to stretch and square crooked or warped photos to get your handiwork looking perfect
- How to retain the original vibrant colors in your images
- How to create a custom frame for your photograph
- How to make your photos easy and quick to share online
Chance to Win a Free Pass to the Webinar!!!
Right here on Stitching the Night Away we’re giving away a free pass to this web based learning event and entering to win is super easy.
Just leave a comment below telling us your biggest problem with photos of your needlework projects.
That’s it! Simple as pushing the shutter button on your camera.
One winner will be selected at random and provided a free pass to the webinar event. When leaving your comment please be sure to use the email address you want to be contacted at in the event that you win.
Contest begins *now* March 11, 2012 and ends March 17, with the winner being announced on Sunday March 18, 2012.
Void where prohibited.
Good luck to all participants and special thanks to Jen and Melissa for this generous giveaway offer to our STNA readers 🙂
P.S. If you can’t wait and you really want to make sure to get a seat at the webinar, you can register for the event.
The biggest problem I have when photographing my needlework is lighting. If I don’t use the flash, the photos always seem too dark. However, when I use the flash, the colors are off and everything is over-exposed.
I struggle with the whole flash vs no flash thing too (as probably shows in my blog photos LOL) I tried a filter but that didn’t work out too well. It does seem to help if I use the flash with the macro setting, but I’m still not always happy with the resulting photos.
I have never taken any pictures of my needlework, as I wasn’t sure what to do. I would love to get started, before I give anymore pieces away!
My problems are much the same as the other ladies – over-exposed with the flash unit and under-exposed if I don’t use it. I usually try and get the light just right early in the morning so I can get a picture without the flash. Sure would like to do this course.
I take the worst puctures. They are never squared.
Hi Guys
One of my biggest problems when trying to photograph needlework is getting the correct colors to show. The purples always end up looking too blue or the oranges always seem to end up looking too red, etc. The same thing occurs with the color of the fabrics. The picture might look nice but the colors just aren’t right. I would love any suggestions you might have.
Dori
OMG I would love to learn how to make my things look better. Just imagine what you learn about fixing your stitching photo’s can be used on all your other photo’s. Please enter me in the contest. Thank you.
Last day to enter today!
Entries are closed and the winner has been announced 😉 ~ Congratulations to Melissa!!!!