ivangdavila_image/ecommerce.md

E-commerce Product Images

Resolution and Framing

• Minimum working baseline: 1000 × 1000 px
• Better zoom-safe default: 2000 × 2000 px
• Main catalog images often want 1:1
• Small products and detail shots usually need more source resolution, not more sharpening

Background and Edge Quality

• Main marketplace image often needs pure white or near-pure-white background.
• Product fill commonly should sit around 85-95% of the frame for major marketplaces.
• Edges must be clean: no halos, dirty masks, or fringing.
• If shadows are allowed, keep them subtle and consistent across the catalog.
• Keep enough padding that the product does not feel cramped after marketplace cropping or thumbnail rounding.

Color and Consistency

• Use sRGB for marketplace delivery.
• Do not auto-enhance product color without validating against the real item.
• Keep crop margins, lighting direction, and white balance consistent across the set.
• Catalog inconsistency makes the whole store feel lower quality even when each image is individually acceptable.
• Variant images should preserve a consistent camera angle and scale unless the marketplace expects a different shot type.
• If background removal is used, inspect edges around hair, glass, reflective metal, and fabric fringing at 100%.

Marketplace Rules

Platform	Typical baseline
Amazon	White main image, square-safe, zoom-friendly
Shopify	Flexible background, but consistency matters
Etsy	Stronger lifestyle freedom, but thumbnails still need clarity
Walmart	White-background expectations are stricter

• Marketplace uploaders normalize aggressively; validate the processed result after upload when it matters.
• Some catalogs require the main image to be cleaner and stricter than secondary lifestyle images; do not apply one styling rule to both.
• If a store theme renders product cards larger than the uploaded image can support, the fix is usually source dimensions and theme sizing together, not more sharpening alone.

Product-Image Traps

• Product too small in frame
• Background not truly white where required
• Detail lost because the source was over-compressed
• Variant images cropped inconsistently
• Reflection, shadow, or mask style changing from product to product
• Text overlays or badges that are not allowed on main images
• Cutout edges that look fine zoomed out but fail at zoom or marketplace moderation
• Uploading already heavily compressed files and then letting the marketplace compress them again

Quality Checklist

□ Product fills the frame appropriately
□ White-background requirement checked
□ Edge cleanup verified at 100%
□ Zoom/detail still holds up
□ Catalog crop and lighting look consistent
□ Metadata/privacy decision made