From daily fashion jewelry to big impressive evening pieces, silver white shades are a big trend, seen on the red carpet or casual style.

They can look very fresh, classy and fine, tribal / ethnic or urban chic, depends on the shades, the mix and the material.

Combining silver and metal materials with beads and colorful natural stones defines a  tribal and ethnic - beach trend, which is also very popular this summer.

and lets not forget the blackened silver / oxidized silver, rock jewelry, multi chains, body chains - the “drapey chic”.

In this upcoming summer, the exotic, tribal, ethnic chic is evolving into more established style with high quality standards and finishing. 

Combining and mixing natural stones, beach color elements with metal, bronze and textile. It's all about natural look with a designer's touch.  

Bold big pieces, dramatic, chunky statement necklaces and chandelier earrings are becoming even more popular and bolder.

While the Oscar 2010 is making its way to Hollywood, diamonds will be shining and glittering all over the red carpet and big expensive flashing jewelries will be everywhere.

There are some gifted designers that have invented the diamond once again while making their own suggestion to the ultimate and most famous stone in the world, using pure good design and modern creative way of looking at it. The diamond rush can be just as stylish and original and make you look spectacular without spending your whole budget and without submitting to it in its old fashion variation.

Instead of spending your whole budget on something you will probably not wear very often, enrich your jewelry collection with something truly unique and origin.

The lovers day is just around the corner and romance is in the air. hopeless romantic heart symbols are very much relevant for the whole year but this is the time to refresh your heart bit collection and style: lucky heart bracelet, triple hearts golden earrings, Leather heart pendant necklace, Heart & Swarovski Crystals golden bangle.

Antiqued Swarovski heart necklace, Pink purple mother of pearl flower heart necklace, Gold Filled hook heart lace earrings, Single heart silver necklace

LOVE wall decal, Love bed kids' set,  Love kids' Pyjamas

Apparently, Jolie was wearing a snake ring during her first pregnancy and has since felt a bond with its symbolism.

Lucky charms weren’t always a popular fashion trend. Since ancient times, people used to wear charms to guard themselves from evil spirits, and from the day we started to accessorize, we used symbols of good luck to protect ourselves.

Nowadays, with the progress of technology, individuals are looking for a personal piece of the past: horseshoe, cross, heart, hamsa, turquoise stone, red string, evil eye and many other motifs, while each different charm has a meaning: hope, love, health, wealth, success.

Although lucky charms are becoming popular and a common trend, they are very personal since they reflect on the person wearing it and bares his wishes and fears.

Gunpowder is a quality and sparkling lifestyle magazine with an interest in luxury informative news from around the globe. Run by Nick Clarke with fabulous design bringing us the latest trends.  http://www.gunpowder-magazine.com/

A Canadian design blog written by husband and wife: Jan is a graphic designer and Earl is a New Media designer and Instructor. The blog is dedicated to promoting emerging design talents and offer wonderful inspiration. Contributor writer in various sites and blogs, Jan is sharing important topics and issues for young designers. http://www.poppytalk.blogspot.com/

Nadine is the Anmutig blog's editor, where she writes  as in her little sketchbook and focuses on design finds and fashion items: jewelry, street fashion, outfits, and favorite designers. Great Chic!   http://anmutig.blogspot.com/

A relatively fresh blog, but very updated and stylish, written by Jade, "obsessed with all things jewelry". She posts on new young designers, jewelry history and everything sparkly. Great inspiring picks. http://jewelrywhore.com/

Run by Irene, originally from Amsterdam but living in Kuala Lumpur. Bloesem is a daily update about everything that makes Irene happy and fortunately us too. Focused on interior design, bringing us the best looking blog with fine graphic design and wonderful posts. http://bloesem.blogs.com/

Sub-Studio design blog is a compilation of products, furniture, jewelry, architecture and artists from a unique multi-disciplinary perspective. Run by Anna and Sean, practicing architects, dedicated to blogging on products they absolutely love.  http://blog.sub-studio.com/

Modish is a daily design and style blog run by Jena Coray, focused to help bring awareness to talented emerging artists and designers. By sharing her favorite handmade & vintage goods, art, fashion & design, she supports the most innovative, independent and sustainable products in the marketplace.  http://modish.typepad.com/

Lushlee started as a virtual space to collect design inspiration,and is now updated daily with visually appealing, interesting and inspiring finds, covering home and interiors, fashion and style, food and craft ideas.Written by Vancouver-based web & graphic designer, Ange Low who has a weakness for designs and styles with a difference.  http://www.lushlee.com/

Hey Susy is a "one stop blog" sharing thoughts on style, fashion, design and craft, featuring other talented designer's work worth knowing more about.  Written by Susy, an independent entrepreneur artist and designer from Manhattan. http://susanconnordesign.typepad.com/

Delivered to us from Cape town, and focused on décor, style, photography and interiors, "Lanalou Style" part time blogger and crafter is writing about "inspiring finds to lift your mood". http://www.lanaloustyle.blogspot.com/

Aphro Chic is a wonderful design blog represents the personal philosophy of designer Jeanine Hays, "modern soulful style". Writing on all design aspects, styles, interesting people from the design world and gathering inspiring carefully picked images. http://aphrochic.blogspot.com/

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Artist Dallas Shaw's work is inspired by fashion and music industries, and her blog exposes her daily inspirations, trendy images, fashion news and lifestyle news.  http://dillydallas.blogspot.com/

In order to optimize the way your products are showcased on Erayo and to avoid “image cut off’s”,

we have prepared for you a template (like a cookie cutter)  that you can download and use to place

your product image into it, in order for it to fit standard image proportion common to most sites on the web.

We recommend you to follow the steps on this post in order to get the best results.

Step by Step Guide:

A) Downloadthe zip file by clicking the link below and save it to your desktop

 File_Size_Templates.zip (4.16 kb)

This zip file contains standard JPG files that may be opened with any graphic/photo editor

software you might have.( Photoshop, Paint shop pro, Pain, Paint.NET and alike.)

B)When done downloading, follow these simple steps:

1. Extract the zip file using any standard .zip or .rar software.  

2. Locate and open one of the templates you've just downloaded with a graphic/photo editor software.

    (We recommend using the most common 1024X768 size format)

3. Open your product image with the Graphic software you use.

4. Select and Copy your product image (from the graphic software menu bar select: Edit – Copy OR

    use keyboard Ctrl+C )

5. Paste it into the template (from the graphic software menu bar select: Edit – Paste OR use keyboard Ctrl+V )

6. Adjust the size to fit the template using the software's transform of adjust command.

7. Save the result.

8. Image is now ready to be uploaded to your Erayo store. 

Many of us like to "play" a little bit with the pictures and edit them with photo editors like Photoshop, Paint shop pro, Paint.NET and alike.

We have found out that presenting images with a straight forward, clear view of the product and with LESS manipulations like frames

and text layers is more appealing to buyers as they are interested to see a clear view of the product itself with no Interference.

So our best advice to you is:

1.       Keep the product as the main object of your image

2.       Do not add frames

3.       Do not add text on top of the product

4.       Keep the image clear and sharp

Before uploading your Store Front image to your Erayo store, you have to set the size of your logo to fit with your Erayo store.

Using a graphic/photo editor software (like PhotoShop, Illustrator etc. ) Set the width of Store Front image to 494 pixels wide

and the height of your Store Front image to 434 pixels high.

See example:

If only one of the dimensions fits the sizes, apply it and then use 'canvas size' to adjust the other one

Canvas size allow you to change the size of the canvas without changing the graphics on it.

For your convenience, we have an empty Store Front image template that you can download and use.

To use this template, Follow these simple steps:

1.       Download the template and save it to your desktop. (Download link at the bottom of the post)

2.       Locate and open the store front image template with a graphic/photo editor software. The file is named 'minisite_home_image_template.jpg'

3.       Open the graphic design file you have prepared for your store

4.       Copy you graphics (from the graphic software menu bar select: Edit – Copy OR use keyboard Ctrl+C )

5.       Past it onto the template (from the graphic software menu bar select: Edit – Paste OR use keyboard Ctrl+V )

6.       Adjust the size to fit the template using the software's transform of adjust command

7.       Save the result

8.       Upload it to your Erayo store as your home page image.

Download the template:

minisite_home_image_template.jpg (3.01 kb)

Before uploading your logo to your Erayo store, you have to set the size of your logo to fit with your Erayo store.

Using a graphic/photo editor software (like PhotoShop, Illustrator etc. ) Set the width of your logo

To 207 pixels wide and the height of your logo to 130 pixels high. 

See Example:

If only one of the dimensions fits the sizes, apply it and then use 'canvas size' to adjust the other one

Canvas size allow you to change the size of the canvas without changing the graphics on it.

For your convenience, we have an empty logo template that you can download and use.

To use this template, Follow these simple steps:

1.   Download the template and save it to your desktop. (download link at the bottom of this post)

2.   Locate and open the logo template with a graphic/photo editor software. The file is named minisite_logo_template.jpg

3.   Open your logo

4.   Copy you logo (from the graphic software menu bar select: Edit – Copy OR use keyboard Ctrl+C )

5.   Past it onto the template (from the graphic software menu bar select: Edit – Paste OR use keyboard Ctrl+V )

6.   Adjust the size to fit the template using the software's transform of adjust command

7.   Save the result

8.   Upload it to your Erayo store as your logo

Download the template:

minisite_logo_template.jpg (852.00 bytes)