Shooting for eBay: Creating Simple and Effective Product Shots for Online Auctions and Sales
by Alan Hess
Size and Resolution
When I started looking into selling items on eBay and taking photos to upload to the site, I assumed I would have to resize the images myself. That is, I figured I would need to make the dimensions smaller than what my camera produced. Imagine my surprise when I found out that you don’t! eBay really likes large images and that’s a good thing. It means that the images look good on the higher-resolution displays available today while also working for other devices. eBay automatically scales the images to display correctly on smartphones, tablets, and computers. While eBay does specify a minimum size requirement and suggestion, bigger is better. Try to keep the images as big as possible and let eBay deal with fitting them on ...
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