Product photo background remover

The 2000 pixel square is the default because it covers the most demanding case: a marketplace listing where shoppers zoom into the picture. Zoom features generally need a long side of 1000 pixels or more, and 2000 leaves a comfortable reserve. The 1000 pixel square is for your own shop's category pages and thumbnails, where a lighter file loads faster and nobody zooms.

The tall canvas, 1600 by 2000, has the four-to-five shape that clothing and anything worn on a body is usually shown in, and it fills a phone screen well. The wide one, 1200 by 628, is the shape of the preview card that appears when a product link is shared, and of many ad placements.

The canvas makes results uniform in size, but only the camera makes them uniform in look. Put the camera on a tripod, or stand a phone against something solid, and do not move it between products. Use the same light for the whole session; daylight from a window with a white card on the opposite side is enough. Place each item on a surface whose colour differs from the product, and wipe it first, because dust and fingerprints are very visible at 2000 pixels.

Photograph every product from the same angle. A range in which each box is seen slightly from the right looks deliberate. One where every box turns a different way looks careless, however clean the cut-outs are.

A 2000 pixel product on white, saved as JPG, usually weighs between 150 and 400 KB. A category page showing forty of those would be far too heavy, which is why shop systems generate small thumbnails from the picture you upload. Give the shop the large, clean master and let it do that.

On a site you build yourself, the choice is yours to make. Download WebP instead of JPG and the same picture is roughly a third lighter. Keep the transparent version too if the page background is not white: one cut-out then works on every background the design ever uses.