Image Hosting For Your Ebay Listings

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Image hosting is something you need to consider when it comes to selling your art on ebay. The most obvious reason is because; having a series of images on your ebay listing allows your buyer to get a more detailed view of your artwork.

Hosting your own images on your own web host platform is probably the best option, but if you don't currently rent your own server space, then here are a few options you may wish to consider.

There are a variety of options available for you to use, including ebay's image hosting service.

Ebay allow you to upload your first photo for free. Any additional images will incur a fee of $0.15 for a standard image and $0.75 for a large (Super size) image.

Although the cost of image hosting on ebay can add up quite quickly, particular if you have quite a few listings running each week, it can actually be more convenient to keep your images and listings in the one location online, rather than having them separated for the sake of using a free service.

On top of that, ebay have a 99.9% uptime guarantee when it comes to image hosting.  So your images will always be displayed without any hiccups.

But if you don't like the price of ebay's image hosting fees, then why not consider your options elsewhere. There are plenty to choose from. Many are free and some will charge you a small fee.

 

Free Hosting Services

Photobucket.com offers free eBay image hosting. In fact, go check out their eBay tutorials and learn more about their auction image hosting: Photobucket tutorials

Photo bucket provide a premium service that allows you to upload 1MB. Like most image hosting platforms, photobucket provide both a free and paid service. It allows you to easily host and link your images and videos to your auction sites, and social networks.

Another service is Auctiva.

Auctiva is essentially a web based auction management platform that allows you to host your images for free. 

They are directly associated with ebay, which means they even cater for ebay users in terms of providing listing templates, automatically re-optimize your photos as you upload them (you still have to resize your photos before uploading) and can even make your listing process easier and faster.

Image Optimisation Software Tools

One thing your viewer does not like as they arrive at your auction listing, and that is waiting for your images to download. 

The problem for you is that if it takes too long for your images to download, chances are your potential bidder is not going to hang around. Therefore, you are losing traffic due a simple image technicality that could have otherwise been easily fixed from the start.

So what you'll need to do it to optimise your images so they load quickly and keep your visitors satisfied.

Don't fall into the trap of believing that the bigger your art images are the more impact they'll have. If you really want your potential bidder to get a close up view of your work, then take a series of close ups and even micro shots so they'll get a good indication of the paint texture and colour. 

Note: If you are not sure how to go about photographing your art, then head over and read my web page that discusses this topic.

To begin with, you should start by re-sizing your images.

Irfanview is a service you may want to consider using to resize your images. I do all of my resizing and optimising with Adobe Photoshop. I encourage you to learn how to use Photoshop if you don't know how to already. There is a bit of a learning curve to begin with, but it is a fantastic tool to have in your art business toolbox.

When you are ready to optimise your images (so they'll download quicker for your visitors) try using Image optimiser or ReaCompressor.

Image Hosting Tip

When you have resized and optimised your images and are ready to upload them to your chosen hosting service, make sure to do some housekeeping.

Ensure that your files are organised (titled) and are ready to receive the corresponding images you have ready for uploading. 

That way when you begin to upload each painting image and it’s close up shots, you can simply upload them straight into the appropriate file. You'll avoid having to search through all of your images trying to find "that" photo every time time you create a new listing.

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