How can I resize a picture to 500 pixels for eBay?

RFW

It also occurred to me that you could try using the Ebay app (assuming you aren't already). When I've used the app in the past it has been easier to upload Iphone images.

TraySelect

thanks again for all the help.

Here's what's worked:

- when I emailed 8 x photos taken on the iphone16 pro to myself to upload to ebay I sent them medium [1.4mb] - not small which would have been 616 kb.

- I uploaded these x8 photos to ebay and that worked, ie ebay accepted them, and I didn't get the photos 'need to be over 500 pxls' ebay refusal to upload.

As I said up the thread, uploading photos to the ebay app directly from my iphone16pro wasn't a problem - it worked ok.

I haven't tried chatGPT as I was trying to avoid introducing another layer of faff! but that's something to bear in mind.

Oh and also what worked was using my iphone13 to take photos and upload to ebay - no problem there.

So ... as @exodi suggested [if I understood] the very high resolution of photos on the iphone16pro doesn't work for ebay when that res is compressed too much?

Exodi

TraySelect said:

thanks again for all the help.

Here's what's worked:

- when I emailed 8 x photos taken on the iphone16 pro to myself to upload to ebay I sent them medium [1.4mb] - not small which would have been 616 kb.

- I uploaded these x8 photos to ebay and that worked, ie ebay accepted them, and I didn't get the photos 'need to be over 500 pxls' ebay refusal to upload.

Great, so we know it's the resolution. You could likely resize these to large in email and still upload them.

I'd imagine the eBay app itself is automatically resizing the images that are uploaded.

TraySelect said:

So ... as @exodi suggested [if I understood] the very high resolution of photos on the iphone16pro doesn't work for ebay when that res is compressed too much?

Yes, but simpler than that - I just dont think the very high resolution is accepted, and when an invalid resolution is identified, the default error message is resolution needs to be over 500px. Your images are simply too big, I doubt they even get to the stage of upload/compression by eBay.

This will become more of a problem as cameras take higher and higher res images (though I expect eBay will be working on it as we speak).

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

https://imageresizer.com/

Images are likely being compressed when you email them to yourself.

For £1 a month you get 50 GB of iCloud storage, you can then download from iCloud on your PC and there are several options, including highest quality which will be over the required size (unless you've cropped 90% of the image on the phone).

If you are doing listings on PC it might be easiest to just put a place holder image via the PC and then revise the listing in the eBay app adding the photos directly from the phone.

TraySelect

thanks, yes, I pay for icloud storage. The problem's resolved now, in that I do what I've always done with photos for ebay listings but just email photos as medium, not small, and list from my macbook.

jon81uk

When you emailed them as "small" it changes the resolution and file size. So checking the iPhone settings is pointless as when emailing them you were resizing them too small.

Better to just go to icloud.com and download the photos, or the Mac photos app should sync them anyway.