Etsy listing photos: sizes, count and order
Photos decide the click. Here is what Etsy allows, what it recommends, and how to keep photos consistent across a whole shop.
The limits
- Up to 10 photos per listing.
- One video per listing, 5 to 15 seconds, up to 100 MB. Etsy plays it without sound.
- Etsy recommends at least 2000 pixels on the shortest side so zoom works. JPG, PNG and GIF are accepted.
- The first photo is the thumbnail everywhere: search, your shop, favourites. Search crops it to a landscape card, so keep the product centred.
An order that works
- 1Product on a clean background, the whole item visible.
- 2In use or in context: worn, on a table, in a room.
- 3Detail or texture close-up.
- 4Scale: next to a hand or a familiar object.
- 5Options: colours, sizes, packaging.
- 6Size chart or care card as the last photo.
Consistency across the shop
Shops look put together when every listing follows the same photo order and shares the same size chart or branding card. That is a bulk edit: add a photo at the front or back of every selected listing, remove the photo in position 7 everywhere, or swap positions 1 and 2 across a batch. SpeedList uploads photos to Etsy through the API, so the change reaches every listing without opening each one.
Photos from Google Drive
If your photos live in a Drive folder, point bulk create at the folder: each file becomes a listing, and the folder link and original file names stay with the listing in SpeedList so you can always trace a batch back to its source.
Questions
- What size should Etsy photos be?
- Etsy recommends at least 2000 px on the shortest side. Larger is fine; Etsy resizes.
- Can I add the same photo to many listings?
- Yes, with a bulk edit that adds a photo before or after the existing ones on every selected listing.
- Does changing photos affect search?
- Not directly. It changes how often buyers click, which does matter over time.
Try it on your own shop, free.
Upload photos, get the title, 13 tags and description, edit in bulk, and publish to Etsy through the official API. The Free plan includes 10 generations a month and one shop.
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