"A Place for all Beaders to Showcase their Creations."
Showcasing Your Work
Showcasing yourself and work is what this site is mainly about.
What is Showcasing?
Basically, it is putting it out there for the world to see.
You can utilize your page, where you can talk about yourself, start a blog, interact with other members, and upload photos or videos of your work with good descriptive titles etc, into our main Photos and Videos area. See our Photo Guidelines for important information. The result of showcasing is that you will develop an identity here that others here will get to know and recognize. And all this can be done within your free membership.
What should you Showcase?
Basically, yourself and your work, not someone else's. Anything from a single lampwork bead to a finished piece.
Why Showcase?
This is a difficult question. The answer is different for all of us. It really comes down to what is important to you. Here are a few reasons that may apply to you -
How do I Showcase?
You can showcase yourself by customizing your page with text and images. We suggest you make your page more personal. Include photos of yourself, maybe your workshop and so on. Add Information about yourself that you are happy to make public.
You showcase your work and talents by uploading photos and videos of your work. The photos you upload to the main Photos area must be limited to your work only. See our Photo Guidelines. Add more personal images to your page or as blog posts.
You further showcase yourself through regular interaction on Beader's Showcase, through comments, activity on the forum, groups and so on. The more active you are the more interest you generate in yourself and your work, and the more people want to know.
Relevant tutorials you should review to get the best out of Beader's Showcase -
About Your Page and Photos
There is one thing that you should be aware of - if people can't find your work it doesn't matter how good you are, nobody will know about it.
Here are a few things about showcasing your work you should be aware of.
The main way people find you or your work is through the Search function. People search using words that describe their interests. The search function then uses these words and looks at the item title, description and, more importantly, the tags you have provided. If you don't pay attention to these few things you reduce the chance that people will find your work.
Once found you will want them to remember your work and be impressed, or at least interested. If they want to find it again then something needs to stick in their memory that they can search on again.
Now don't take this all too seriously, as the main thing is to have fun, but if you are concerned about being found and remembered then here are a few suggestions -
What is Showcasing?
Basically, it is putting it out there for the world to see.
You can utilize your page, where you can talk about yourself, start a blog, interact with other members, and upload photos or videos of your work with good descriptive titles etc, into our main Photos and Videos area. See our Photo Guidelines for important information. The result of showcasing is that you will develop an identity here that others here will get to know and recognize. And all this can be done within your free membership.
What should you Showcase?
Basically, yourself and your work, not someone else's. Anything from a single lampwork bead to a finished piece.
Why Showcase?
This is a difficult question. The answer is different for all of us. It really comes down to what is important to you. Here are a few reasons that may apply to you -
- for fun (my favorite)
- to share experiences
- to demonstrate skills
- to invite feedback for self improvement
- to help others with inspiration and knowledge through example
- to promote yourself (especially if you sell your pieces)
- to be part of the community
- or maybe just to show off
How do I Showcase?
You can showcase yourself by customizing your page with text and images. We suggest you make your page more personal. Include photos of yourself, maybe your workshop and so on. Add Information about yourself that you are happy to make public.
You showcase your work and talents by uploading photos and videos of your work. The photos you upload to the main Photos area must be limited to your work only. See our Photo Guidelines. Add more personal images to your page or as blog posts.
You further showcase yourself through regular interaction on Beader's Showcase, through comments, activity on the forum, groups and so on. The more active you are the more interest you generate in yourself and your work, and the more people want to know.
Relevant tutorials you should review to get the best out of Beader's Showcase -
About Your Page and Photos
There is one thing that you should be aware of - if people can't find your work it doesn't matter how good you are, nobody will know about it.
Here are a few things about showcasing your work you should be aware of.
The main way people find you or your work is through the Search function. People search using words that describe their interests. The search function then uses these words and looks at the item title, description and, more importantly, the tags you have provided. If you don't pay attention to these few things you reduce the chance that people will find your work.
Once found you will want them to remember your work and be impressed, or at least interested. If they want to find it again then something needs to stick in their memory that they can search on again.
Now don't take this all too seriously, as the main thing is to have fun, but if you are concerned about being found and remembered then here are a few suggestions -
- Your profile photo should be something that gets people interested. I suggest a photo of yourself, but if not try to pick something that best represents you as a person or your style of work.
- Your page should include information about yourself that will be of interest to others. Tell us about why you do what you do, how you started, what you aspire to do in the future. If you have a website be sure to include it in your profile settings. A little personal information is great and that way we know you are a real person and will want to know you better. DO NOT include specific information about address, phone number etc. If you want to pass that on to others you can do that through our private messaging system.
- The photos of your work should be as clear as possible. Focus on your work, not the background. Don't photograph from too far away or too close. To close shows up fine detail and this can be distracting. Too far away and you lose detail. Photography is an art. The best advice is to look at what others have done and keep practicing. See our Photo Guidelines for important information about titles, descriptions and tags.
Last updated by Jeff Jan 18.
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