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eBay image requirements
Last checked against the platform’s documentation: August 2026
The short answer
- Size
- Minimum 500px on the longest side (official). 1,600×1,600px is a zoom RECOMMENDATION, not a requirement
- Background
- White/light grey background recommended (not strict)
- Shape
- Square 1:1 is recommended, not required
- Not allowed
- ⚠ Banned on ALL photos: "Photos with added borders; Photos with added text, artwork or marketing material; Watermarks of any type."
What eBay requires
Everything in this section is published by eBay. 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
Minimum 500px on the longest side (official). 1,600×1,600px is a zoom RECOMMENDATION, not a requirementRequired
Square 1:1 is recommended, not requiredRecommendednot re-checked
Background
White/light grey background recommended (not strict)Recommendednot re-checked
What the photo may and may not show
⚠ Banned on ALL photos: "Photos with added borders; Photos with added text, artwork or marketing material; Watermarks of any type."Required
“Photos with added borders; Photos with added text, artwork or marketing material; Watermarks of any type.”
— eBay’s own wording Stock photos: new items only. Pre-owned must be actual photos.Requirednot re-checked
Pre-owned vehicles must show the actual itemRequirednot re-checked
Still open on eBay
Points we could not settle from a published source. Some are figures that circulate widely without one we could trace; on others eBay’s guidance reads differently in different places, or does not reach the question. Everything here is marked, so you can see what rests on a source and what does not.
- ⚠ Up to 24 free images per listing — widely reported, not a figure we could verify
- ⚠ Maximum 9,000×9,000px is widely reported — eBay's own ceiling is not a figure we could source
- ⚠ Maximum 12MB per image is widely reported — eBay's own cap is not a figure we could source
- ⚠ JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, WebP, HEIC and AVIF are reported as accepted — the list is not one we could verify
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 eBay packs, built from these rules:
- Product Shot1 image
- Showcase3 images