Help!! Pic on EBay listing looks like crrrr*p!

Don't know what to tell you Susan. I've had the same problem for years. I've tried everything and there just always seems to be something lost in the translation. I always thought it was AOL, but that wouldn't apply to you.

Juanita

May fate bless us all according to our deeds.

Let me just sy that ebay's pic hosting is beyond awful. Even if you upload a crisp, clear, wonderful picture, it will sucketh major time on the ebay servers. My suggestion is to host the pics elsewhere and use the img src tag in your auction description. Also, upload one pic for the gallery onto the ebay servers anyway, so that it shows in your auction listing as having a gallery photo. But have that same pic hosted elsewhere so it looks clearer in the auction description. That's how I do mine. (If you notice, in each of my auctions, one pic is always repeated, but the one I host looks so much better!) And if you don't have web space available, you can use picturetrail or any number of other free hosts. I hope this makes sense. Feel free to ask questions if it doesn't!

and you can get 10 megs of webspace on

Mary

Thanks Kandice - I'll try that.

susan in canada

It's really odd, the UK picture service doesn't seem to be nearly as bad as the US one! My pictures usually look the same and I don't do anything special to them.

Charlie.

That is odd! Maybe they don't compress them as much or something???

susan in canada

I sell framed items on ebay [none up right now, though]. I have found that I always get the best results when I scan my items. If you have not tried that and are able to fit them onto the scanner [you can piece large items together in your correll draw or photoshop or something just fine]. I've had very good luck with this type of picture. When it is uploaded to ebay it does not seem to loose either color integrity or clarity.

HTH.

-Aula

In article , just me >

Thanks for the tip Aula!

susan in canada

I had the same problem when i would upload pictures it seemed like some of the quality got lost, i don't know if it's the algorithms that are used to compress or decompress the images or what. I've been using this other program that i found that lets people retrieve images and descriptions of my work directly from my computer to theirs and the image quality always stays the same. It's kind of like that program that all the kids used to use nApster. Check it out it's at

Thanks Craig I'll check that out!

Congratulations! It may take a while for them to find you, but once they do, I suspect you can look forward to higher closing prices.

Are you using eBay's picture hosting? They have, I kid you not, THE CRAPPIEST picture hosting I've ever seen. They resize everything, and I think they compress the daylights out of it to save (their own) bandwidth, and it just doesn't look like it should. I swear they get smaller and foggier every year! If you use another host, you can have as high-quality pics as your heart desires.

-Kalera

Susan B. wrote:

Thanks Kalera - that's obviously the way to go then - I was just surprised by the difference between JustBeads and EBay as far a picture quality when they're hosting.

susan in canada

Honestly, I think it's because eBay is pinching pennies and doesn't really want to provide picture space anymore. Seems like they'd be better off providing *more*, better picture space to help increase sales since they get more money if they have more sales.

-Kalera

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