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not claim this tutorial as your own or copy and redistribute it in any way. Any similarity of this tutorial
and any other is purely coincidental as this is my original creation.
There are many good reasons to resize an image for Ebay. It is important for a seller to have pages that load quickly. If your page is too slow your buyers may move on to the competition's products.
There are two sizes that we need to consider.
1.) Physical size- Your image should be under 600 pixels wide to fit nicely on your auction page. 400-500 pixels will be even better as it allows for a smaller file size.
2.)File size- As a general rule of thumb you should try to keep your main picture under 50kb in size. Additional photos should be smaller in file size. When using more than a couple of images you may want to consider using thumbnail images that click to enlarge. ( Clic*Pic is a handy program for accomplishing this. )
This quick and easy tutorial will show you how to accomplish re-sizing your images so that they will load faster on your Ebay and other web pages.
A.) We need an image to start. Click Here to see the one I chose. The file size is 905 kb and the physical size is 1280 x 960 pixels.(The size is large so I'm using a link for it.) Choose your image and open it in Paint Shop Pro.
B.)Determine what part of your image you want to highlight and then choose the parts to crop out. Go to your crop tool ( ) and start at the top left hand of your image. Hold your mouse button down and scroll to the lower right hand of your image. Use your mouse to move the box around until you get the desired size. Once you are satisfied with your cropped area go to the center of it and double click.
See example below:
C.)Now go to Image > Resize . The settings I used are pictured below. For Ebay images I always use "pixels" to resize and choose "smart size". Just worry about the width and not the height as that will resize automatically with the width as long as you have "lock aspect ratio" checked.
D.)This is our last step and where we also reduce the file size. Go to File > Save As . When the new window opens make sure you have JPEG set as your file type. In the same window go to Options > Run Optimizer. Play around with the compression value under the Quality tab until you get the desired file size and image quality. (I set mine to 17) Under the Download Times tab you can get an idea of how fast your image will download at different internet speeds. Under the Format tab I have mine set to Standard.
My new image is now 500 x 489 in physical size and 48 kb in file size.
You can see that the image quality has also been preserved.
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