So you want to be in an Etsy Treasury? Don't kill your chance!

I've been curating about five Etsy Treasuries a week lately. It's fun, and I get to see many wonderful items. You've probably been told on many occasions that top quality photos are a must, both for selling and for getting featured in Treasuries. There are lots of great post available with outstanding photography tips. But I feel compelled to mention the following because I've not seen it posted before. The picture of your item that shows up in a Treasury is the thumbnail of the first picture you placed when you listed/edited your item. Etsy uses a 1000px x 1000px image for the main or enlarged image in your shop. But the thumbnail it generates is smaller and rectangular (the top and bottom of the image gets clipped). What may be a great image when enlarged and un-clipped may not be suitable for a treasury. I'll use one of my sculptures to demonstrate. If the image I placed in the first spot in my Etsy shop was cropped like the image on the left, the thumbnail would appear something like the image on the right. The primary object in the photo barely appears in the thumbnail. That may keep curators from using you item even if they like it, and it suits the Treasury they are creating.

One solution is to use a detail shot of your item for the first picture. If you've already got a detail shot in among your images, you can just drag it to the first position when you edit your item. As a curator, my objective is to get a front page Treasury, so I'm looking for great pictures, and that means the thumbnail has to be great too.
Thanks for reading this post, and good luck with your Etsy Treasuries.

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Under the Sea Treasury includes my Sea Turtle Pendant

Homespun Dolls has put together a very striking Treasury that includes my Sea Turtle pendant.
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d862277af586d9198e7f2b7/under-the-sea

 

Homespun Dolls is a fellow member at Creating the Hive. If you haven't seen these dolls, you should take a look now: http://www.etsy.com/shop/HomespunDolls They're amazing.

"The Intruder" Butterfly and Bee Sculpture is in an Etsy Treasury

There is an new Etsy Treasury called Birds and the Bees and the Flowers and the Trees ...and my sculpture is in it. Check it out:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d70e039b2cb6d910317835f/birds-and-the-bees-and-the-flowers-and
Etsy store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/LunarSkiesJewelry
LunarSkies Web Site: http://www.lunarskies.com/ 

If you like Turtles . . . come on, who doesn't?

Wow! I'm in another Etsy Treasury. This is pretty exciting for me because I just listed this piece last night! I haven't even had time to put it on my own web site. I've made about 25 new pieces that I'll list soon. Meanwhile I've listed them in my Etsy store, check it out.
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d4c5417b7438eef0640fa33/we-do-love-turtles

 

My Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/LunarSkiesJewelry

My web site: http://www.lunarskies.com

The Gathering Butterfly Sculpture is featured in an Etsy Treasury

I've been featured in a few of these Treasuries before, but it's usually for my jewelry. I'm excited about this one because I want to get more exposure for my sculpture. This particular Treasury is desert related, so much the better!
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d3d149d89da6d91b05fa3b7/desert-delights?ref=pr_treasury

Here' a link to the sculpture on my web site: http://www.www.lunarskies.com/pages1/fineart.html

Etsy store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/LunarSkiesJewelry

Muses Gallery on line: http://www.musesgallery.com/jewelry_lunar_skies-sculpture.html