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When you add photos to your listings, you can change their order, crop them, edit 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.
While your listing photos upload to the Etsy Seller app, you can complete the remaining listing information. You'll receive a notification if any of your photos failed to upload and you need to try again. Once your photos have successfully uploaded, you can begin to edit them.
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 edit your listing photos
Etsy has partnered with Img.ly so you can edit your listing photos on the Etsy Seller app with just a few taps.
- In Listings, select the listing you wish to edit or create a new one.
- Go to Photo and video and select the photo or video you wish to edit, or add a new one. Select Edit.
- Select Transform to crop or rotate, or Adjust to edit brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness, and more.
- Select the check mark in the top right corner when finished editing.
If you have preferred photo edits, save them as a custom photo filter. Saving your custom photo filters can make editing easier and help give your listing photos a cohesive look.
- After editing your listing image, select Create a filter to save it.
- Provide your custom photo filter with a name under Filter name.
- Select Save.
- When editing an image, select Apply a photo filter.
- Choose the filter you want from your list of custom photo filters.
Your custom photo filters will show up in order from most to least recently used.
If you delete a custom photo filter, the images that have been edited with the filter will not be impacted.
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.