Custom mug marketing images

[logobear]

I am surprised at how low the prices are.
I fully accept that if you have a host of images to populate a selling website then cost could add up, but they look fantastic.
There is mention of actually making the mug, and photographing it .........
SO - what is the very lowest price you will make a mug?
THEN - just how much hassle is it to setup a ministudio and get the lighting right, photograph, then crop and levels to get a finished result.
I am too busy to DIY........
I was delighted with the 'FREE' valentines templates, thank-you, but I spent an age trying to find a suitable picture of a pretty girl, then making up a mug, photoing it, and trying to get an image ready for a valentine promo flier. I would be VERY happy to buy templates BUNDLED with a visual of an actual mug complete with mugs (people) filling the spaces, so I can just upload an image and immediately start the offering.
The templates are great, but are only half way to a sale, this rendering combined with a human image populating the template makes an easy sell solution. Gimmi Gimmi Gimmi!

[Justin]

I'm just looking at populating my website with sample images, mugs etc. I did wonder about being able to get a 'stock' package of relevant images. FlyingAl?

[JSR]

but I spent an age trying to find a suitable picture of a pretty girl, then making up a mug, photoing it, and trying to get an image ready for a valentine promo flier. I would be VERY happy to buy templates BUNDLED with a visual of an actual mug complete with mugs (people) filling the spaces, so I can just upload an image and immediately start the offering.

I do this all the time. Where once I looked for family or pet photos for dummying-up promo items, now I just browse microstock sites. As the item in question is quite small and doesn't need to be ultra-high resolution, I look for cheap images that only cost pennies. I did this when using Paul's recent valentine freebie templates.

I invariably have plenty of reject items (particularly mugs) lying around that it's no trouble to bung one in when doing someone's order. The mug would only have been scrapped anyway, so there's no cost issue related to the actual item.

The trouble with someone supplying you with a template that includes model photos is the rights issue. Selling a template with a photo in it would be considered "distribution", and that may not be within allowed usage.

If you do it yourself, then you're not distributing anything - you're just using it for advertising purposes (which may or may not be allowed depending on the microstock site you use). I'm currently browsing for Easter photos.

[Renniwano]

Huge thanks again to Alan for my new images.. perfect

Nikki x

[harlequeen]

I had a couple of these renders done, and I was extremely pleased with them.

[Photomouse]

Hi Al,

I'm looking for some marketing images of mugs, i phone 4 & 5 cases, i pad mini cases and i pad cases. Is that something you could help with?

Regards
Angie

[Justin]

You'd be better off starting a new thread, this is an old old one

[NikGrey]

I was using the free Photoshop Action Script for Mug's when I started (Still upstairs in my original office - how time flies) - they, to me were outstanding but took WAYYY too long to make.

I already have 300 products in my shop, I will not make available a lot of them though as I am not happy with the designs (Just populating to test the shop software) but to pay £1 an image for me is far too much. Although I must say these images are far better than I have seen anywhere else. Al - you will get work by doing this but I suspect not enough for a viable business on it's own.

I will be taking photo's of the mugs I produce as I make them, and updating each product as I go on but at the moment I am happy.

As Paul suggested I too would be more than happy to buy something which allowed me to make these myself.

Great to see something appear on the forum relating to product images though, as you see there is obviously appetite for this.

[FlyingAl]

Hi Al,

I'm looking for some marketing images of mugs, i phone 4 & 5 cases, i pad mini cases and i pad cases. Is that something you could help with?

Regards
Angie

Hi Angie,

Thanks for asking about the renders, I can definitely help re the mugs, if you can send me photos of the other items I can certainly see what i can do. I've PM'd you.

kindest regards

alan

[FlyingAl]

I was using the free Photoshop Action Script for Mug's when I started (Still upstairs in my original office - how time flies) - they, to me were outstanding but took WAYYY too long to make.

I already have 300 products in my shop, I will not make available a lot of them though as I am not happy with the designs (Just populating to test the shop software) but to pay £1 an image for me is far too much. Although I must say these images are far better than I have seen anywhere else. Al - you will get work by doing this but I suspect not enough for a viable business on it's own.

I will be taking photo's of the mugs I produce as I make them, and updating each product as I go on but at the moment I am happy.

As Paul suggested I too would be more than happy to buy something which allowed me to make these myself.

Great to see something appear on the forum relating to product images though, as you see there is obviously appetite for this.

Hi Nik,

Yeah, the action scripts can be a bit of a faff but the results are pretty decent and there are some nice tools out there to do the job.

The service I offer is really for people who may need a custom setup i.e. 2 mugs one in front of the other or 3 mugs in a row to show full wraps or if someone wanted to add custom artwork 'behind' the mugs, or even just people that don't want to do it themselves.

Not looking for the renders to be any kind of viable business on their own, it's just a side thing because I can. If someone wanted a substantial number of renders the costs would come down dramatically, need to charge 'something', not looking to be a busy fool.

Glad you liked the images you've seen anyway Nik, your kind comments on them are very much appreciated. Thank you.

Kindest regards

Alan