On your side as you setup your Lightspeed Retail / eCom, of all of your Tasks that you will need to address prior to launch, it is these two Tasks that will take you the longest generally and are so important to the success that they are done right the first time.

1- Build Product Catalog in Lightspeed

2 - Understand Product Image Sizing

1- 'Building the Product Catalog' - Lightspeed Retail or eCom Support will be the best resource to help you through the Product Catalog creation and editing process within Lightspeed.

Having said that, we do have some advice for you

Sizing your images from RAW to JPEGs

Stephen notes: - If you're going to photograph your own products, then shooting them in RAW format would be for your consideration, as the final quality both in colour depth and detail would be the best quality. By shooting in RAW format, you have images that will work with your online web store as well as HiRes image for print media. If you are only shooting products for your web store, then shooting them as JPEGs directly from your camera and not shooting RAW is fine as this will usually produce an initial

• Review : Photographing Your Products - General Guideline

We have created a few short movies that you can reference to help guide you on how to prepare your photographic images in PhotoShop and therefore maintain a professionally consistent and polished presentation of your products.

We hope you find these movies informative and invite you to suggest any techniques that you feel we have not covered that are important to you.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO PREPARE YOUR IMAGES FOR THE WEB STORE

PHOTO EDITING SOFTWARE

We recommend you have a copy of Photoshop. You do not need to purchase the newest CS suite versions of Photoshop, any older

For Image preparation in Photshop, please follow the steps below:

STEP 1

Size the Product/Zoom Images for the Zoom Module:

Once you have completed your photography and assuming you have shot in RAW format, you will need to now open those image(s) in PhotoShop in preparation to size them and save as a JPEG image.

There are a few movies to show you the whole process at the link below. Please continue to read in detail to present a full overview to you of the process.

AdVision will advise you during the development of your web store the final image

• Image Preparation in Photoshop
• Sizing Your Images From Raw to JPEGS

Initially as you review this outline, it may appear somewhat daunting to collect together all of what you need to, however we can assure you with some effort, the results will be well worth the time.

What You Will Need to Shoot Your Own Photography

ROOM : A room available to you that you can set up and is at least 10' x 8' average size. It is preferred that you can you leave your equipment set up in this room untouched for few days or so rather then tear down each time you photograph.

CAMERA : Have a camera that is