When I was at the eBay conference a couple of weeks ago I noticed a really handy looking product, it is a application called “bling it”. What is essentially does is quite simple, it lets you remove the background from any digital photo and add either a pure white background or even better some kind of patterned background, then easily resize and add your own watermark.

Many will know the benefits of using an application such as photoshop to do this, it really makes the product look professional and more appealing and will genuinely get you better sell though and prices, I used to use photoshop to do this on my photos. However it is a bit cumbersome and time consuming.

“Bling it” seemed to be designed for one thing only, preparing photos of items for website or auction site listings. It looked very quick and quite simple to move though the steps of removing the old background adding a new one resizing and adding your own watermark, since it is designed specifically and ONLY for these tasks, I could easily see that it would take only a fraction of the time using this to prepare a photo than it would using something like photoshop.

Another benefit over photoshop or other image software is this application costs US$49.99 instead of the hundreds that photoshop charges.

There is a 14 day free trial so I recommend anyone who finds themselves taking digital photos of products for auction or website, give this a go on their trial I wish i had this when I was selling online.

you can download or buy it here: http://www.blingit.us/

It is a desktop application, however they do have a Windows and a Mac version.