topic Re: Photo sizes in Selling

Photo sizes

lionheart500 — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:47:45 GMT

I have been on eBay for about 12 years and loading photos without a problem now they have to be a certain size and I have been resizing them with Picasa but I cannot alter to the size eBay now accept.

Re: Photo sizes

davewil1964 — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:51:50 GMT

They have to be 500 x 500 minimum.

Why can't you resize them to that? It's not a big pic.

I use Windows Paint for mine - seems to work.

Re: Photo sizes

lionheart500 — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:52:05 GMT

mmmm well eBay tell me one side has to be 600.........I'll try Windows Paint then thanx

Re: Photo sizes

harley_babes_hoard — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 09:06:39 GMT

no, it only has to be 500 on the longest side.

Re: Photo sizes

lionheart500 — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 09:17:29 GMT

who knows ebay tells me 600 but either way it is dam annoying me...

Re: Photo sizes

harley_babes_hoard — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 09:22:16 GMT

New picture quality requirements, aimed at helping you showcase your items as best as possible, are now in place. Take a look at what they are:

At least one photo for every listing
Photos need to be at least 500 pixels on the longest side (we recommend 1600 pixels)
No borders, text or artwork shown on your pictures
Catalogue or stock pictures can only be used for brand new items
Watermarks allowed for ownership and attribution only

Yes it is I had to edit over 500

Re: Photo sizes

lionheart500 — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 18:12:43 GMT

So what programs do you guys use

Re: Photo sizes

harley_babes_hoard — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:13:30 GMT

I have paintshop pro, it's old version now but it still works a treat.

I believe you can download a 30 day trial, if you have a lot to do might be worth your while. Just google.

Re: Photo sizes

clarry100 — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 05:38:54 GMT

I used MS Office Picture Manager.

It has the capability to scale up/down by a percentage and retains the aspect ratio as you resize. Worked well.

You probably need to have MS Office installed to get access to it tho I think.

Re: Photo sizes

davewil1964 — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 05:46:15 GMT

I just use Paint. Comes standard with Windows.

Works well enough for cropping and resizing, but you can't do colour enhancement stuff.

Re: Photo sizes

putney32 — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 06:11:46 GMT

I use iPiccy.. its free

Re: Photo sizes

lionheart500 — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 09:17:16 GMT

I cannot locate Paint

Re: Photo sizes

lionheart500 — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 09:18:20 GMT

I have MS Office so I'll look at that too thank you

Re: Photo sizes

lionheart500 — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 09:53:48 GMT

Just found Paint and trying it now

Re: Photo sizes

jillywinkle — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 10:49:59 GMT

The best advice I was ever given from a friend, when I first used a digital camera, was to shoot the pic at the highest resolution. I used to take them at the highest 2480 x whatever...but now with ebays policy I lowered the camera resolution to 1600 x 1200 pixels and I just upload them at pretty much that size...after briefly editing them in iphoto (i use a mac)....I never get the ebay alert messages anymore. They do take longer to upload, I usually hit the upload...then tidy up the sock drawer in between photo uploads. Take a look at my photos..they seem to comply and are a good size for buyers...and if you get the photos right the first time, you hardly have to edit them anyway...jilly

Re: Photo sizes

thecatspjs — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 11:54:58 GMT

I think thats sound advice Jilly re shooting them at highest resolution

I list via Inkfrog so I take my shots and edit them in Microsoft Office picture manager and then wipe out most backgrounds in free clipart program (still in beta testing), upload all in bulk batches to inkfrog and list from there.

The link to ciipart is here http://clippingmagic.com/ for anyone interested, very simple program, FREE and best I have struck on recommendation of another ebay poster, that I am forever grateful to.

Re: Photo sizes

babylonfuture — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 13:10:45 GMT

Hi,

I use a few different tools

GIMP

http://www.gimp.org/

Microsoft Picture Manager (QUICK crops and resizes) [also: program not available in Office 2013, another way to get it is via Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 - http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=16573)

and

IRFANVIEW

http://www.irfanview.com/

Re: Photo sizes

cq_tech — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 14:33:09 GMT

Microsoft themselves provide a small and totally free image resizer for every Windows version from XP onwards which will resize your photos to either a predetermined size or one of your own choosing, either individually or in bulk (batch processing).

Simply enter "Microsoft Image Resizer" into Google and select the one suitable for your version of Windows.

Did I mention that it's totally free of charge? 🙂

Re: Photo sizes

lionheart500 — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 19:14:04 GMT

I'll have a try at this also could be a good option for me, I really want a program that isn't expensive, does a simple resizing and a good system of filing which is important to me.

Re: Photo sizes

homeopathmichele57 — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:49:48 GMT

I havent sold for a little while but have a few thousand photos in my library

& now have found I can't use them. I've never had a complaint about my photos.

I'm really peed off & not at all tech savvie.