According to EBay, your auction item will be more likely to sell if you display a photo or picture of it on your advertisement. But how do you get your image onto EBay?
The Photo
First you need to take a photo of your item for sale. You can take a picture with
a digital camera or a normal camera. If you have a photo, you'll need to scan it
into a digital form. This can be done at most copy stores.
Adding Photos to a Web Site
Getting Started Scanning - from Graphics Software at About
Optimizing the Image
You don't want to put up a image that is too large. You should edit the image
before you put it up on the Web to keep the download time fast. A good rule of
thumb is to keep your images around 10Kb or less. Some ways to do that:
- crop the image down to just the item for sale
- use the JPG format (for photos)
- with the JPG format, keep the compression high
Optimizing Images - an article that goes into more depth on making small images for the Web.
Putting it on the Web
Once you have the perfect image, you need to put it on the Web. EBay doesn't
offer Web space for images, but there are many free hosting options available.
Uploading Your Pages - an article that explains how to upload files to a Web server. It's based on a Windows system, but the techniques are similar on the Mac.
Linking the Image
Once you've uploaded your image, you need to get the URL to use on EBay. Your
URL will usually start with the server name, then your directory or location,
then any sub-directories you may have, then the image file. E.g.
http://pages.about.com/jennkyrnin/green.gif
- http://pages.about.com/ - the server name
- jennkyrnin/ - my directory
- green.gif - the file name
Adding Links and Images - learn how to add images to a Web site.
