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Etsy image size checker: how to check your photos in 10 seconds

Etsy 图片尺寸检测:10 秒检查你的照片

Searching for an Etsy image size checker usually means you already suspect a photo problem. Maybe hover zoom vanished after a re-upload. Maybe a hero looks soft in search compared with neighbors. Maybe a VA sent JPEGs without dimensions in the filename. You do not need a complicated workflow — you need a repeatable ten-second habit before every publish.

TagPeek’s free website tool at tagpeek.com/etsy-image-size-checker runs entirely in your browser. Drag a file onto the page and nothing uploads to our servers. Within seconds you see shortest-side pixels, whether the file clears Etsy’s published hover-zoom floor near 2000px on the short side, whether the first-photo guidance near 635px on width and height looks plausible, crop previews for common grid ratios, and a copy-ready re-upload recipe.

Start with the file on your disk, not a right-click save from the listing page. Etsy embeds CDN previews such as il_794xN in the HTML. Those files load fast for buyers but lie about your master upload. Our Rule 06 note explains the 794px trap; the local checker sidesteps it because you control the source bytes.

Ten seconds is enough for a pass-or-fail decision on zoom. Open the file, drop it, read the hover-zoom row. If the short side is even one pixel under 2000px, our tests show hover-zoom is unavailable — it is not a softer zoom level (Etsy recommends ≥2000px). Fix export settings before you touch tags or ads.

Add five more seconds to scan crop previews. Search grids use square and near-square crops. A product hugging the corner of a portrait photo may lose detail after Etsy trims margins. Orange safe zones in the detector show where subject matter is more likely to survive category crops documented in Rule 04.

Blur heuristics run separately from pixel floors. Upscalers can inflate dimensions while inventing soft edges. The checker surfaces both issues so you do not confuse passing a numeric gate with looking crisp to humans.

After local checks pass, publish and open the live listing in Chrome with the TagPeek extension. Live audits resolve toward full-size URLs where Etsy exposes them, then apply the same rules on what buyers actually see. Local plus live is the full ten-second habit stretched across two moments: pre-upload and post-publish verification.

Batch sellers can chain the habit: export folder sorted by SKU, drop each hero, paste the recipe into Lightroom or Canva presets, upload only files that passed. You are not estimating sales or ranking — you are aligning bytes with Etsy Help language linked from our rules library.

Print-on-demand shops receiving supplier art should reject sub-threshold files at intake. One rejected PNG at the door beats swapping heroes on fifty live listings during a launch week.

Jewelry and textile sellers feel zoom most acutely. If your category depends on texture, treat the 2000px short side as part of product education, not an optional enhancement.

When a file fails, use the recipe block instead of guessing quality sliders. Consistent exports reduce arguments inside teams about which version uploaded.

Mobile photography can shrink effective resolution if you crop aggressively for Instagram before exporting for Etsy. Measure the Etsy export, not the social crop.

Transparency on product photos triggers separate self-checks in Rule 08. Opaque backgrounds often behave more predictably in search tiles even when pixel counts pass.

If you maintain archives, store the detector recipe next to the master TIFF. Future you will not remember which JPEG quality setting cleared blur heuristics.

Competitor research tools answer demand questions; they do not read your binary files. Keep research in the planning phase and pixel checks in the publish phase.

Re-audit after camera firmware updates or lens swaps. Rarely, in-camera resize settings silently reduce the short side.

Variation listings sharing one hero still need that hero to represent the typical item. Pixels measure files; buyers measure trust.

Link this workflow to Rule 01 for zoom, Rule 02 for first-photo floors, and the photo checker feature page for how live listings are scored.

Wholesale channels sometimes reuse compressed marketplace thumbnails. Re-export from source when migrating SKUs into Etsy.

Seasonal overlays — badges, ribbons — should stay inside safe zones in crop previews. Clipped badges look amateur even when raw dimensions pass.

Document the ten-second habit in your shop wiki: local drop, read zoom row, scan crops, publish, live extension click. New hires then inherit a checklist tied to official sources, not forum folklore.

If both local and live audits disagree, wait for CDN refresh in a private window before re-uploading twice. Mismatch often means cache lag, not a broken rule engine.

Square canvases with excessive padding pass pixel counts while failing the squint test. Tighten composition before chasing upscalers.

sRGB exports remain the conservative default for web listings. Exotic profiles can shift colors after Etsy conversion.

Watermarked heroes may affect program eligibility; the detector flags them as self-checks rather than automatic pass/fail.

Listing videos supplement but do not replace still heroes for grid crops. Audit the still first photo even when video slots are full.

When you duplicate listings, re-run the local checker on the duplicate’s hero instead of assuming inheritance copied bytes correctly.

Macro shots need depth of field that still reads at thumbnail scale. Focus problems survive upscaling.

Keep a single folder named finals-approved-by-detector to stop accidental uploads of drafts.

TagPeek scores do not predict revenue. They summarize alignment with requirements you can verify independently — which is exactly what a fast checker should do before Q4 traffic arrives.

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