During lockdown our department of photo retouching in Tampa have been really busy cropping, resizing and photo editing the images that appear on marketplaces such as Amazon, Etsy etc. The image requirements for Amazon are not too complicated but Amazon makes it look hard. They have the requirements spread out across multiple pages instead of in one place and sometimes they contradict themselves creating a lot of confusion. Amazon even has particular style guides for each of its numerous different product categories all of which have subtle inconsistencies making it easy to get overwhelmed.

At The Dot Box, we deliver 1000’s of Amazon photos a year, so we’ve learned a few things about Amazon photography.

Doing this kind of photo retouching is nothing new and was going on a long time before Amazon came along. 25 years ago as a freelance retoucher, I was doing the same image editing as printed mail order and home shopping catalogs were requesting the same. There is something about isolating the product from the background that makes the image ‘pop’ and really standout. 

Fortunately Amazon doesn’t look like it’s going away anytime soon so freelance photo retouchers in the USA and around the world will have millions of these Amazon products to edit. 

If you require this type of photo retouching or any type image editing then please get in touch and our Photo Retouching company will be happy to help.