Designer Toolbox #3 | Smashing Darling Blog

Community News and new darlings

We have quite a few new darlings since last month – welcome!- and some lovely new spring wear as well. Lots of safari styles and bright colors to be found to get your senses warmed up. As you read on and learn how to integrate your indie…be sure to let all your peeps know about the Darling shopping spree with Second City Style and Papierdoll.

Other community news on the radar: Trish Darling is blogging over at DIY City mag, go join that community with us! Darling Ahna White has been writing for Jewelry Artist mag, take a peek. Please contact us with any news you would like to share and/or comment away in the blog on things you want to see, things you like/don’t like…fill us in!

New for Spring – Laura Dawson

New for spring – Nichole Angelina Grazioli

how to – SHOUT IT OUT

Smashing Darling was built by designers, for designers. We truly built this community around the needs and wants of an independent clothing designer. Hopefully, with a little help we can get you out there selling your stuff so that it’s the most useful to you and what you have going on. Here are two quick and easy ways to connect your dots online:

1 - Grab a badge/widget out of your account and pop it right into your website, blog, myspace etc. Here is an example at whosiepie.blogspot, (scroll down on your right.) And if you don’t have commerce on your site at all, simply link to Smashing Darling right from your SHOP icon, as KRELwear does, nice ‘n easy!

2 – INVITE your people!

Does everyone on your mailing list know they can purchase from you at Smashing Darling? Let them know! Send them an invitation, it helps you and it introduces them to our community…and so we grow!

1-Go into your store account

2-click on Shout It Out

3-click Invite customers

Simply add in your email contacts (cut and past will be quickest!) and you are done. You can personalize the invite as well, even add a Promo Code…but we will save that lesson for next month!

New darling Kahri

New vintage in the house – 28 Crash!

Foto Finesse – Lesson 3

Exposure

So we taught you a bit about prepping for a photo shoot in the past lessons. The next challenge is making sure that your camera interprets the light in the way that is closest to what your eye sees: this is called exposure. Some cameras may offer very little control over exposure (shooting in what is often called a “fully programmed” mode), but often cameras have a number of choices, usually called exposure modes. Once again, there’s no way around reading the manual here to get the most out of your camera. Check out what exposure modes your camera is capable of, and which matches your situation best.

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