Check your photo against Etsy's rules.
Etsy sets rules for the main image that can be measured from the photo: thumbnail crops. Drop a photo to see which ones it meets. It runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
Choose a marketplace and a photo.
Rules come from each marketplace's own help pages, summarised in the guides (checked 10 October 2026). Size, file size and format are checked as well.
What Etsy asks for.
Source: Etsy Help — Requirements and best practices for images · checked 10 October 2026 · Read again · 13 October 2026
- Main image
- Room to crop to square, portrait and landscape without losing the product
- Recommended
- A width and height of at least 2,000 pixels
- First photo
- At least 635 pixels wide and high, or it may show up lower in search; square or landscape
- File size
- Files over 1 MB may not finish uploading on a slow connection
- Thumbnails
- Leave enough border to crop to square, portrait and landscape without losing the product
- Formats
- JPG, GIF, PNG, SVG or HEIC; these are the only image file types supported
- Transparency
- Animated GIF and transparent PNG files are not supported; transparent parts of an image appear black
- Colour
- Images are converted to the sRGB colour profile; convert to sRGB before uploading if the colours appear wrong
- Consistency
- The first listing photo dictates the shape of the photos that follow
- Orientation
- Among its thumbnail recommendations, the same page advises avoiding square crops and uploading landscape images
- Where
- Worldwide
- Etsy image resizer
- 2,000 × 2,000 px — the size Etsy recommends.
- Herofab
- 2,000 × 2,000 px, the size Etsy recommends
Checkers by marketplace.
Etsy main images, answered.
Why does the first photo need room around the product on Etsy?
Room to crop to square, portrait and landscape without losing the product. The first photo is shown in square, portrait and landscape thumbnails; the checker tests all three centred crops.
Where do these figures come from?
From Etsy Help — Requirements and best practices for images, read on 10 October 2026. Marketplaces update their rules; the official page is the final reference.
Is my image uploaded?
No. The file is read and processed inside your browser; nothing is sent to a server.
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