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Picture Manager enables you to store your original pictures as well as create and store those pictures in standard sizes for display in eBay listings. Additionally, you can add security to your pictures by watermarking them with a camera logo as well as with your User ID. You can decide on picture sizes and watermark options when you upload your pictures in the Picture Manager Uploader.

Standardising Picture Size
Picture Manager automatically generates and stores standard picture sizes for you to use in eBay listings.

Optimising for eBay listings
From your picture, Picture Manager will automatically generate a Standard picture (400 pixels on its longest side), a Preview picture (200 pixels on its longest side) and a Thumbnail picture (96 pixels on its longest side). Below are examples of the three picture sizes.

Thumbnail picture (size: 2-5K)

Preview picture (size: 10-20K)

 

Standard Picture (size 30-40K)

Note:Only the Standard picture will be counted toward your storage space limit. These picture sizes are standardised to display quickly on the View Item page and with the eBay layouts available in our listing form.

Keeping a copy of your original picture
To keep a copy of your original picture for building your own layouts or setting your picture dimensions and size yourself, select the keep a copy of my original pictures" check box.

Note: ".jpg" and ".gif" files will stay in the same file format while all other picture file formats will be converted to ".jpg." Changing the format will not change the dimensions of your picture.

Watermarking your pictures
For added security, you can watermark your pictures with a camara icon watermark or with your User ID (up to 24 characters). Watermarks will be added to the Preview picture and larger picture sizes. All watermarked pictures will be converted to .jpg file format. If you choose to watermark the copy of your original picture, we will convert it to .jpg without changing the picture dimensions.

Camara logo watermark
The camara logo will watermark the lower right corner of the picture. An example of the watermark is displayed in the pictures above.

User ID watermark
You can watermark your User ID on the lower left corner of your Standard picture as well as on the copy of your original picture, if you choose to keep it.

Note: To avoid obscuring details of your pictures, watermarks will not be added to any picture which has a width that is too small to fit the watermarks or a height that is less than five times the height of the watermarks.

Related Help topics

• Picture Manager: Overview

• Picture Manager in the Sell Your Item form

• Picture Manager in My eBay