This document provides guidance on creating an ecommerce photo catalogue. It recommends developing a workflow manual, cleaning and organizing products before the photo shoot, and choosing camera equipment and software. Specific tips include selecting a lens based on product types, using tethered image capturing software, and considering stock photography or image recognition technology for some catalogue needs. The overall steps outlined are meant to help efficiently produce high quality product images for an ecommerce website.

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Create Your eCommerce Photo
Catalogue
If you are an eCommerce retailer, you are most likely to need
production. Your success often boils down to the efficiency of your
workflow — how fast can you produce products, product
imagery,website content and sales. So today, get a fix of proper steps to
go by while preparing your eCommerce photography catalogue.
Create a Workflow Manual
A customized workflow guide should include every detail of your photo
production workflow methods. As your company either grows in size,
you will need structured guidelines for how the work should be done in
order to maintain consistency.

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Prepare your products
Be prepared to spend adequate time clean off each item even the
smallest speck of dust will be visible in a product image. While you will
be able to fix mistakes in post-production processing, advanced editing
is time consuming and requires a high level of proficiency with cloning
and healing tools, so it is better to fix as much as you can manually
before the eCommerce photography shoot.
Organize Your Products
After you have ensured that your products look their best, line all of
your products up in the order that you plan to photograph them, along
with their identifying information. Picture a grocery store shelf, but with
products out of their packages, clean and ready to shoot. If you have
cataloged your products correctly, then you should be able to compile an
ordered list and simply mark them off as you progress through the
photoshoot.
Choose a Camera and Lens
Do note, though, that generally, the more that you pay for a lens, the
better quality glass and internal structure the lens contains. High-end
glass is what will really makes a difference in the quality of your
images, not so much your camera.
Beyond quality, your lens (es) of choice should depend on the types of
products that you need to photograph and the level of consistency that
you want to establish between your catalog images. As you probably

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know, there are two major types of lenses: zoom lenses (e.g. 24-105mm)
that allow the user to choose between a range of focal lengths and prime
lenses (e.g. 85mm) that provide only one focal length.
Select Image Capturing Software
Image capturing software will allow you to shoot with your camera
“tethered” to your computer and will automatically upload any images
that you capture into a designated folder. This will eliminate
unnecessary transferring steps and help you manage time more
efficiently.
Select Post-Production Processing Software
If your image capturing software does not include advanced post-
production processing capabilities, you will need to purchase a program
like Adobe Photoshop or Apple Aperture that will allow you to make
these types of edits.
Other Ways To Create Catalogue
Stock Photography
There will be plenty of times when an eCommerce business needs to use
stock photography, be it for a blog post, a social media post, or an ad.
For many uses, it is possible to get commercially licensed stock photos
for free.
Image Recognition Technology

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Now, with technological advancements, photography for eCommerce
catalogue can be automated based on image recognition. A lot of small
players do not have the resources to get models for photoshoot. This
technology brings down atleast 40 percent of the overall cost.
So, these are the steps to streamline a nice eCommerce photo catalogue.