Do people actually take the time to make those pics when selling?

Formosa

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

We Are All Pretty [ugly]

Those pics of all the items and their descriptions...I mean, it's a ton of stuff, do people actually sit there and screenshot everything, copy, crop and paste them into 1 pic? Or is there a 3rd party program (my suspicion), that can do that for you?

Omega Complex

Omega Complex

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Arlington, TX

nope, copy, crop, paste.

Jiao Yang

Jiao Yang

Lunar Rabbit

Join Date: Dec 2005

nothing will 'do it for you' but most use Photoshop or Paint shop pro to edit thier SS's. They do make them look all pretty by themselves.

EternalTempest

EternalTempest

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

United States

Dark Side Ofthe Moon [DSM]

E/

For a free semi easy to use program with lots of advanced features.
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/

Photoshop is NOT the easiest to learn yet very powerful.
I own (legit) Photoshop 5.5 (I know it's very old now) but works great for what I use it for.

fiery

fiery

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2005

maryland

InYurFace Gaming [IYF]

R/

well i screenshot every pic
changed and cut them up and saved them as Jpegs.
stacked them on one auction
sold some but not all.
AND NEVER DOING IT AGAIN

darkMishkin

darkMishkin

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

UK

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

Mo/

Statistics show your item is 87% more likely to sell with a picture than without.

Evil Hypnotist

Evil Hypnotist

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

I Dragon I [PAIN]

Quote:
Originally Posted by darkMishkin
Statistics show your item is 87% more likely to sell with a picture than without.
yet I heard 60% of statistics found on the internet are not true..., which is hypocritical in itself

Feminist Terrorist

Feminist Terrorist

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Oh Noes! The 'burbs!

I take pics of every item I sell. As a buyer, I'd be very unlikely to buy from someone with no pics of their items. It's time consuming, but anything worth doing well is time consuming.

Mournblade

Mournblade

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2005

Houston, Texas

Dawn Treaders [DAWN]

W/Mo

Once you know the process, it takes more time to load photoshop than it does to crop and save your photo. =)

EternalTempest

EternalTempest

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

United States

Dark Side Ofthe Moon [DSM]

E/

Agree, If I see two (same) items around the same price, if one has pic, and one doesn't I go with the one w/ the pic.

Tigjaw

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Feb 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Formosa
Those pics of all the items and their descriptions...I mean, it's a ton of stuff, do people actually sit there and screenshot everything, copy, crop and paste them into 1 pic? Or is there a 3rd party program (my suspicion), that can do that for you?
it took me about 1 minute to do 3 pics, as somebody else said, once you know the process its easy.

LiQuId StEeL

LiQuId StEeL

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2005

/u/liquidsteel30

Ego Trip From Rank [ZERO]

W/Mo

I forget about taking pics... it's a habit now.

Is it gold? Screenie it. I can always go and delete my useless screenies some other time.

Funda

Funda

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2005

Arcane Nexus [ANX]

N/Mo

I agree that a pic of the weapon or item in question makes it that much more marketable. I hate to say it, but if I open a sell thread and there are no pictures tied to the items, I'm definately more inclined to close the thread and look elsewhere.

Tell you one thing, whoever the person was who made the first picturebook was onto something...