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Shopify image requirements
Last checked against the platform’s documentation: April 2026
Shopify says little publicly about images, so this page is short. We would rather leave a gap visible than fill it with a guess.
The short answer
- Size
- Recommended: 2,048×2,048px
- Shape
- Aspect 1:1 preferred; 4:3 and 2:3 also common
What Shopify requires
Everything in this section is published by Shopify. 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
Recommended: 2,048×2,048pxRecommendednot re-checked
Aspect 1:1 preferred; 4:3 and 2:3 also commonRecommendednot re-checked
Still open on Shopify
Points we could not settle from a published source. Some are figures that circulate widely without one we could trace; on others Shopify’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.
- ⚠ Max 5,000×5,000px / 20MB — our April reading, never re-verified
- ⚠ Up to 250 media items per product — our April reading, never re-verified
- ⚠ JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, SVG, HEIC supported — our April reading, never re-verified
- ⚠ Auto-converts to WebP via CDN — our April reading, never re-verified
- ⚠ No mandatory background rules — Shopify is your own storefront; our April reading, never re-verified
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 Shopify packs, built from these rules:
- Hero1 image
- Starter3 images