Amazon white-background product photos
Amazon listings often need a main product image on a white background. This page explains what SelfShot can do today, how white padding differs from cutting a product out of a photo, and the free on-device Amazon Image Check. Private background removal is not available and is not for sale yet.
What SelfShot does today
SelfShot is a free, browser-based photo tool. It resizes, formats, and compresses product photos, and it can pad them onto a white square. Photos are not uploaded for processing. Decoding, resizing, padding, compression, and export all run on your device.
Open the free photo tool to prep a batch now, use the Amazon image size tool for the current Amazon preset, or open the Amazon Image Check.
White padding is not background removal
Padding adds white around the photo so the frame is the right size and the added pixels are pure white. It does not cut the product out of a table, wall, or other background. If the original photo is not already on white, the non-white area stays in the picture.
True cutout, sometimes called background removal, is not available in SelfShot today.
Common Amazon main-image requirements
Amazon Seller Central publishes image rules, and some categories have extra style guides. Rules can change. Confirm the current requirements in Amazon Seller Central before you list. SelfShot cannot guarantee Amazon approval.
Common Amazon main-image requirements, from public Amazon seller guidance, include:
- A main image on a pure white background, described as RGB 255, 255, 255
- The product filling a large share of the frame. About 85% is commonly cited. Some category style guides say about 80%.
- Amazon prefers images larger than 1,000 pixels on each side for zoom
- Amazon prefers JPEG
These are common requirements, not a complete or universal checklist. The current US Seller Central product image requirements page (help article G1881) requires a seller login, so we could not confirm that page verbatim. Category guides can add more rules, such as showing the actual product and avoiding extra text, logos, or watermarks on the main image.
Official pages to re-check: Amazon Seller Central product image requirements and Amazon's guide to taking product photos.
SelfShot can help with size, format, compression, and white padding. It does not promise that Amazon will accept a listing.
Current Pro is not background removal
The optional $9 lifetime Pro plan is unlimited cross-listing. It does not include private background removal, and it is not required for the free Amazon Image Check.
Background removal is still an interest test
The free Amazon Image Check is available now. It reviews selected technical characteristics in your browser. It cannot guarantee Amazon approval. Private background removal is not part of that check.
We are measuring interest in private background removal and expanded Amazon checks. Those are not available yet. Expected price: $49/year. That figure is interest-test pricing only. Interest list only. No charge today.
Photos, email, and this form
When you prepare photos in the free tool, they stay on your device. They are not uploaded for processing. If you join the interest list, your email and form answers are sent to SelfShot. Do not attach photos to that form. The form does not accept them.
Join the interest list
Interest list only. No charge today. This would be a separate future upgrade and is not currently available.