Resize images for Etsy

Etsy recommends listing photos at least 2000 pixels on the width and the height. The first photo should be at least 635 pixels on each side, or it can show up lower in search. Etsy does not require a square. It says the first photo should be horizontal or square, and its own tips say to avoid square crops and upload horizontal or landscape images.

SelfShot scales each image so it fits a 2000 by 2000 square, then pads the shorter side so nothing is cut off. That square is this preset, chosen so a batch looks consistent. It is not a rule that Etsy will reject a landscape file.

A common reason an Etsy upload fails or stalls is file size. Etsy says images larger than 1 MB may not finish uploading, especially on a slower connection. A full-resolution phone photo can be several megabytes. People often blame their connection when the file itself is the problem.

SelfShot uses a compression search: it encodes the image, checks the byte size, and steps the JPEG quality down until the file is comfortably under 1 megabyte while staying sharp. If a 2000 by 2000 photo still cannot get under that size at reasonable quality, it drops to 1600 by 1600 and tells you. That makes a smaller file. It does not guarantee Etsy will accept the upload.

iPhones save photos as HEIC, which Etsy now accepts but which still trips up some workflows, and HEIC files often carry rotation information that can make a photo appear sideways. SelfShot reads HEIC on your device, bakes the correct orientation into the pixels so the photo is upright, and exports a clean JPG sized for Etsy.

Everything happens in your browser. Your photos are never uploaded to SelfShot, which keeps the tool free and private and means there is no per-image limit and no account to create.