Product photo guide
Marketplace image rules with sources, white backgrounds, removing a background, the 85% fill rule, size and file limits, shadows, shooting with a phone, and why listings get rejected.
- What each marketplace actually asks forThe sizes, fill ratios, background rules and file limits Amazon, Etsy, Shopify, Trendyol and eBay publish — with the source page for each.
- Pure white backgrounds, and why yours is not whiteWhy marketplaces demand RGB 255,255,255, why your white looks grey, and how to get there without a studio.
- Taking the background outHow edge-connected background removal works, why it beats a colour threshold, and the cases where it honestly does not work.
- Filling the frame properlyWhat "the product must fill 85% of the frame" means geometrically, why margins quietly break it, and where to anchor the product.
- Size, resolution and file limitsHow large a listing photo should be, when upscaling hurts, JPEG versus PNG, and how to fit a 2000 px frame into a 1 MB cap.
- Shadows, and the trap in themWhy an isolated product looks pasted on, how a contact shadow fixes it, and the edge-bleed trap that breaks pure-white compliance.
- Shooting so the rest is easySurface, light, distance and camera settings that make automatic background removal work — and the habits that make it fail.
- Why listing photos get rejectedThe reasons marketplaces hold up images — background, fill, text and logos, resolution, file size — and how to check before uploading.
Listing photos that pass, made in your browser. Drop a photo in, pick the marketplace, and get a frame that matches its published rules — background off, product sized, shadow optional, and an audit that tells you which rule you are still missing.
Open Product Photo StudioMarketplace rules change, and this guide is our reading of the published guidelines linked on each preset — the store's own help page always outranks us. Amazon, Etsy, Shopify, Trendyol and eBay are trademarks of their owners; naming a preset after a marketplace means it targets that marketplace's published sizes, not that we are affiliated with it or endorsed by it.