Photos of your own work can be taken with a digital camera. Some of our users hire a professional photographer, and although we think that that is always a good thing to do, your own digital camera would probably be good enough. Of course, we encourage the highest quality possible. In terms of images that you put on your clients’ Private Showrooms, you have a number of possibilities.


1. Manufacturers or suppliers that designers do business with will usually provide designers with a disk of images of their products that they want you to sell or they provide you with a link to a set of web pages on the Internet that contain images of their products.

2. You can go to popular general websites that provide stock photo images, such as gettyimages.com or punchstock.com or fotosearch.com or many other general photography sites. They have a wide variety of furniture images that can provide a client with an example of the ideas you wish to convey to the client in the Private Showroom you set up for the client. Sites such as getdecorating.com, designingonline.com, gettyimages.com, corbis.com, shutterstock.com, fotosearch.com have hundreds of thousands of pictures from which to choose.

3. You can take pages from magazines that have the images you want and scan them or pay someone to scan them and turn them into a jpeg that you can then upload to your site.

4. You can take your own pictures with a digital camera.