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Bolt Food photo requirements
Last checked against the platform’s documentation: August 2026
The short answer
- Size
- Min 1,200px both sides. Cover 2:1 (1,280×640px)
- Background
- A solid, minimal background that does not compete with the food — white works, and so does a plain colour
- Shape
- Product image: horizontal or square (NOT vertical)
- Not allowed
- NO text/logos, NO people or hands at all
What Bolt Food requires
Everything in this section is published by Bolt Food. Each line is marked as a rule or as advice, because the two are not the same thing when you are deciding what to do.
Size and shape
Product image: horizontal or square (NOT vertical)Required
Min 1,200px both sides. Cover 2:1 (1,280×640px)Required
Item photo: 16:8 at 1,280×640px, max 10MB — Bolt's photo guide asks for 1,200px on both sides, so meet whichever is larger on each sideRequired
“Add a photo of the item 16:8 (1280x640, max 10MB) - optional”
— Bolt Food’s own wording
Background
A solid, minimal background that does not compete with the food — white works, and so does a plain colourRequired
“Make the photo on a solid background and without competing decorations”
— Bolt Food’s own wording
What the photo may and may not show
NO text/logos, NO people or hands at allRequired
No alcohol and no interior-design objects in the shotRequired
Cutlery only where it adds something — Bolt asks that cutlery carrying no visual value be replaced with edibles. Avoid napkins, patterned fabrics and disposable dishesRequired
“Regular cutlery and items that carry no visual value should be substituted with edibles or replaced. Please avoid napkins and leaving chopsticks in their paper wrapper”
— Bolt Food’s own wording
Framing and lighting
White balance 4500–5000KRecommended
The file
Max 10MB. We also keep files above 200kb — our own floor, not a published Bolt ruleRequired
Formats: PNG, JPG, TIFFRequired
These rules are what our Bolt Food packs are built from.See what you get
These are the rules. We build to them.
Upload one photo and get back a set sized, framed and backgrounded to exactly what is on this page. No studio, no measuring, no rejected listing.
Ready-made Bolt Food packs, built from these rules:
- Enhanced1 image
- Three Styles3 images