Valentine's product photos
Valentine's is a gift-buyer season, and gift buyers ask a different question
Somebody buying for themselves wants to know what it is. Somebody buying for someone else wants to know how it will look when it is handed over.
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February is a short, sharp season with an unusual shape: a compressed window, a lot of first-time buyers, and almost all of them shopping for somebody else.
That last part changes what the photograph has to do. A gift buyer has no idea what your brand is, has not read your about page, and is deciding in about six seconds whether this looks like something they would be pleased to hand over. Presentation carries almost the whole decision, and presentation means packaging.
It is also a season where the small stuff sells: jewellery, candles, chocolate, soap, prints, anything under about forty euros. Which is the exact size range where a photograph cannot show scale by itself.
Why your photos are costing you sales
So the two questions that arrive by message in the first week of February are always the same: how big is it, and does it come wrapped. Both are answerable in a picture and almost never are, which means both arrive as messages instead — and a gift buyer who has to ask usually buys from whoever did not make them.
There is also a timing squeeze that is worse than Christmas. The window is roughly ten days, most orders are placed inside the last four, and any listing that is not already photographed and live has effectively missed the season.
The scenes that suit your work
A handful chosen for what you sell, out of the full library.
It has to still be your item
Answer both questions in the images and the messages stop. The packaging scene puts the product beside the box, pouch or wrap it ships in, which settles the presentation question and doubles as reassurance that it will arrive giftable. The hand and palm scenes settle size without a single measurement, which no description ever does.
Skip the hearts. A soft gradient or a warm interior carries February perfectly well, and the photograph is still usable in March — whereas anything with a heart in it is dead on the fifteenth.
- Packaging shown, which is what a gift buyer is actually deciding on
- Size settled in the picture, so the message never gets sent
- Seasonal without hearts, so the images survive into March
- Fast enough to still be worth doing in the first week of February
Three steps, about a minute
01
Upload your photos
Two or three angles on a phone is plenty. We cut the background automatically.
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Pick your scenes
Tick as many as you like from 56 staged settings, or describe your own.
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Get your shots
They arrive together in your gallery, ready to download for a listing or a post.
Questions people ask before they sign up
- Should I make a Valentine's version of everything?
- No. Pick the things that work as gifts under about forty euros and leave the rest. A seasonal set of six that converts beats a whole catalogue restyled badly.
- Can it show two items together as a set?
- Photograph them together and we restage what you sent. That is the honest way to show a bundle, and it is the only way a bundle ever gets its own picture.
- Is pink required?
- No, and it dates the image immediately. A neutral warm scene reads as a gift all year, which means the work you do this week keeps paying in April.
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