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Just Eat photo requirements
Last checked against the platform’s documentation: August 2026
The short answer
- Size
- Minimum 1,024×768px — required, and bigger is better
- Background
- A clear background, kept consistent across all your photos
- Shape
- 4:3 aspect ratio, landscape orientation — required
- Not allowed
- No people or hands. No text over the image
What Just Eat requires
Everything in this section is published by Just Eat. 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
4:3 aspect ratio, landscape orientation — requiredRequired
“4:3 is the aspect ratio for individual dish photos… the minimum we can accept is 1024 x 768px, but the bigger you can send it in, the better”
— Just Eat’s own wording Minimum 1,024×768px — required, and bigger is betterRequired
“4:3 is the aspect ratio for individual dish photos… the minimum we can accept is 1024 x 768px, but the bigger you can send it in, the better”
— Just Eat’s own wording
Background
A clear background, kept consistent across all your photosRequired
“use a clear, consistent background across all of your photos”
— Just Eat’s own wording
What the photo may and may not show
A single dish, centred, cooked and plated as you would serve itRequired
In takeaway containers or on plates, natural daylight or well litRequired
No people or hands. No text over the imageRequired
You must own the image rights — no stock imageryRequired
The file
PNG or JPG — requiredRequired
“Save the files as either .png or .jpg format”
— Just Eat’s own wording File size between 1MB and 10MB — requiredRequired
“Whether you're taking header or dish/item photos, your image size should be no less than 1MB and no more than 10MB.”
— Just Eat’s own wording File name: the exact item name, no spaces or special characters, e.g. ChickenNuggetsAndChipsRequired
Uploading and review
Messy, overcrowded or poorly lit photos are automatically rejectedRequired
“set up messy, over crowded looking photos with poor lighting. These will be automatically rejected”
— Just Eat’s own wording Just Eat reviews every photo. It goes live in 3–5 working days, or you get an email explaining why it was rejectedRequired
These rules are what our Just Eat 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 Just Eat packs, built from these rules:
- Clean Studio1 image
- Light Neutral Surface1 image
- Wooden Table1 image
- Craft Paper1 image
- Brand Colour1 image