Uploading Photos Onto eBay

[Flying10uk]

Has anyone else been having problems trying to upload photos onto eBay recently, specifically eBay UK? I've never had a problem before, until recently, when they made "a few changes" and some of the photos that I am trying to upload do so, so that the image is at "a peculiar angle", dark and in "a double vision". It doesn't exactly promote the item that you are attempting to sell, in a favourable light, if represented by such images.

Why they had to "play about and mess around" with something that was working perfectly well as it was I don't know.

From my own very limited IT knowledge and attempts to get photos to upload onto eBay it may appear that they may, possibly, have significantly reduced the size of photos that can be uploaded.

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[Sapper740]

No problems here in the U.S.

[Surpmil]

Have you tried resizing them first? MS Paint will show what a photo's actual display size is. Very often 30-40% of that is more than adequate. This solved a similar problem for me recently.

Removing JPEG metadata can also greatly reduce upload size and time.

I've found FastStone Image Viewer and FasStone Photo Resizer to be excellent freeware programs. Have used them for quite a few years with never a problem.

[Flying10uk]

Drastically reducing the photo size helps it to load by cropping the edges off but it's not very helpful when you can't show all of what you were originally intending to after having to do this.

As I said in my OP I never had a problem uploading pics to eBay until they changed the format in which they display pics on listings recently.

[Surpmil]

One must adapt: crop off everything that isn't needed. In FastStone it's very easy: go to settings and set browser view as the default, deselect confirm overwrite. Left click on a photo, click X on the keyboard and the cropping window for that photo pops up. Left click and drag to select area, click OK, then Cntrl + S to save, and on to the next one.

It's surprising how even moderate cropping of an image will greatly reduce the size in kilobytes.

FastStone has options under tools for batch stripping off JPEG metadata and batch renaming. Just select a group of photos, click Tools and off you go.

The options for rotating and brightening, adjusting colour saturation etc. are also excellent and easy to use.