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UK Handmade Image Requirements

I recieved an email from the US store about Handmage images being updated to be in line with the main store (i.e plain white background) but was wondering if this is also being rolled out for the UK store? So no more lifestyle images?

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Seller_LkPpSgD323PU5

Yes it is being rolled out here, starting on the 1st Jan 2021. The main listing photo has to be on the white background, the other pictures can be on different backgrounds.

No logos in images or water marks from September i think.

Great timing, they should have waited until the Spring.

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I am a little confused by it all as I sell personalised items so can’t put an image on of the actual item for sale as they say we need too, and can’t seem to find anything on personalised items.

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Seller_LkPpSgD323PU5

I received an email on the 13th July. I am copying and pasting it below. There were photo examples but i cant copy those.

Here is a copy of the email.

Amazon is going to begin enforcing two MAIN image requirements this year to help improve product discoverability and eligibility to be featured in Handmade Marketing Campaigns. The MAIN image is the primary image of your product. The MAIN image is what displays for a product in the search results and browse pages, and is the first image customers see on product detail pages.
MAIN images cannot have text, logo, graphics, or watermark
Effective: 8/31/2020

If your MAIN image features a text, logo, graphic, or watermark, you must upload a new MAIN image without the prohibited content by 8/31/2020 or risk being suppressed from Search. While this has always been an Amazon image requirement, ASINs violating the rule previously were not removed from Search. Please ensure all images meet the imaging guidelines to ensure there is no impact to your business and to provide a great experience for your customers.

Examples of images featuring text, logo, graphics, or watermarks that will no longer be allowed.

MAIN images must feature a pure white background
Effective: 12/31/2020

Amazon will begin requiring pure white backgrounds for MAIN images by 12/31/2020. We wanted to give you plenty of time to make the changes to your images prior to enforcing the change. Updating your MAIN image to a pure white background will increase deal eligibility and ensure consistency across the Amazon experience and product detail pages—RGB color values of 255, 255, 255.You can still feature lifestyle images as alternate images the customer will see on your detail page.

Need new MAIN images and not sure where to start?
Many Sellers use a photo studio box to take professional product photos from home. They provide a clean white background and a well lite surface to photograph your product. AmazonBasics offers a Portable Foldable Photo Studio Box but there are many options available to choose from depending on the product type.
Directions on how to update Images:

  1. Go to ‘Inventory’ > ‘Manage Inventory’
  2. Click ‘Edit’ and choose ‘Manage Images’ from the drop down

Once complete, hit ‘Save & Publish’

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Seller Support team for help.

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Seller_rDclVMuOHVfMN

I’d love to know how they want me to have a pure white background behind one of my items that happens to be…pure white. :face_with_raised_eyebrow::rage:

Seriously.

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Seller_gNtjysRriF5qn

I sell art prints, some of my listings are in “mockup” frames but it is made clear they do not get a frame with the purchase, just print only. But I scan my art to make prints and use that as the listing image. Is that ok or do I need to reduce the size and put on a white background? Is no background acceptable as in the art fills the frame? Hope that makes sense.

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Seller_gnubxPFEnuoPY

We have items that are clear plastic that we engrave personalisations on, which shows as white. We put these on a plain white background as an experiment and they are completely invisible. I wonder if people will click on a plain white square out of curiosity though. I know I would but I am nosey.

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Seller_gnubxPFEnuoPY

Hello,

Thank you for this as I have been doing numerous Photoshop courses and putting items on a white background makes them look really dull. Our only alternative seems to be to spend thousands of pounds on getting a professional photographer to take the pics but that just wouldn’t be viable.

Another thing I am worried about is the ‘no text’ on first pic as all of our items are personalised so they are shown with engravings etc so think that this could be picked up by the Amz Bots as text and then suppressed.

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Seller_y85eShwkJ1SUS

I’m so thankful for this thread as I STILL haven’t been emailed about this…

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Seller_LkPpSgD323PU5

I had an email yesterday saying that due to sellers concerns the new white background requirement will not come into effect until end of Feb 2021.

Which is good gives us some breathing space but again like a lot of the rest of you some of my items are going to look like nothing on a white background. I sell a lot of clear items also.

Ive got myself a light box thing and i suppose i will have to do some test shots to see. But hardly any free time to do that. I might just leave my clear items until last and see if they get removed or not.

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Seller_rDclVMuOHVfMN

Someone mentioned Canva to create a white background around your items - there is also a site called FotoFuze.

When you photograph your items you can put large white sheets of paper or panels of white foam board behind and under your item to get a start at a white background, then perfect the whiteness of that image by putting it through FotoFuze for pure white background.

So that’s one way to get the white background super white.

But I’m still super concerned (and grumpy!) about how white items will fare against white backgrounds.

There is a “shadow” feature in FotoFuze but even adding shadows still leaves much of the item blending into the white background if the item is pure white too, as shadows just can’t be around the entire thing.

I really think Amazon haven’t thought this through. And surely the whole concept of handmade should mean that shoppers welcome a different look to our item photos as opposed to manufactured good on the rest of “ordinary” Amazon? For us to have different backgrounds helps show a buyer that that pic coming up in results indicates a true handmade item. If I were Amazon I’d keep that difference going, not make everything the same look as non-handmade.

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