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When you add photos to your listings, you can change their order, crop them, and adjust the thumbnail. The thumbnail is the image shown in search results and on your shop homepage.
Having multiple clear, high-resolution images in your listing is an important factor for your listings’ quality. Having a main image that is too dark, blurry, or are part of a photo-collage may result in your listing appearing lower in Etsy search results.
- Learn more about Etsy’s Customer Service Standards.
- Learn more about requirements for listing photos.
How to change the order of your listing photos
The first photo will be the thumbnail for your listing. You can change the order of your photos on your listing if you’d like a different one to be first.
- On Etsy.com, open Shop Manager.
- Choose Listings.
- Edit your listing or create a new listing.
- After you’ve added at least 2 images to the Photos section, select and drag them to change the order.
- Open the listing and tap a photo or the Listing heading.
- Tap View all.
- Tap Reorder.
- Tap and drag a photo.
- Choose Save.
How to crop your listing photos
You can crop your photos after you add them to your listing. Cropping can change how the thumbnail looks, so try cropping before adjusting your thumbnail.
- Open Shop Manager.
- Choose Listings.
- Edit your listing or create a new listing.
- Hover over the photo.
- Choose the crop icon.
- Select any one of the suggested sizes or drag the grid's corners to choose your own size.
- Select Save.
- Open your listing and tap a listing photo.
- Tap Edit.
- Drag the corners to resize the image or choose Original for preset sizes.
- Slide the image to choose what part you want to display.
- Tap Apply.
You won’t be able to undo the crop after you save it. To undo the crop, upload the original image again.
How to adjust your thumbnail
- Open Shop Manager.
- Choose Listings.
- Edit your listing or create a new listing.
- Choose Adjust Thumbnail.
- Slide the circular button left and right to zoom in and out.
- Drag your image until it’s in the position you want.
- Select Save.
- Open your listing.
- Tap the Listing heading.
- Scroll to the bottom to tap Continue on Etsy.com.
- Tap Adjust thumbnail.
- Slide the button left and right to zoom in or out.
- Drag the image to choose a different area.
- Choose Save.
How to fix your listings’ images for Etsy search visibility
To view which of your listings have images that may be causing Etsy search visibility problems:
- From your Shop Manager, visit your Etsy Search visibility page.
- In the Your listings section, you’ll see personalized insights and recommendations on how to improve your listings.
- Choose an issue you want to correct and select View listings. This shows all the listings in your shop with that issue.
- Multiple issues may affect an individual listing. Once all the issues are resolved, they will no longer appear in your Etsy Search visibility page.
Once improvements have been made, the insights will typically disappear within 24 hours.
Image editing tools
Images that are too dark can be corrected in the Etsy Seller app.
To brighten your images on the Etsy Seller app:
- Log in to the Etsy Seller app and select More.
- Select Etsy search visibility.
- Select the listing you want to edit and select Manage photos.
- Tap the pencil icon of the photo you want to change, then choose Edit.
- Select Adjust.
- Select the Brightness icon. Toggle the slider to adjust the image’s brightness. You can also edit other parameters of the image, such as exposure, highlights, etc.
- Select the check icon to confirm your edits, then tap the arrow icon to save your changes.
Outside of the Etsy Seller app, there are a number of photo editors sellers like to use. You may want to check out:
Several tools are integrated with Etsy shops: