Use eBay image services or host your personal photos?

If you use the eBay image services, your initial picture is totally free. But each additional image will price you $.fifteen and the supersize image will be another $.seventy five.

This can reduce into your auction profits if you need, let us say, 3 or four pictures displaying different angles, and 1 supersize image for the “WOW” impact!

So I discovered a way to have as numerous pictures I want in my listings with out having to pay all these costs to eBay: I do my personal picture hosting!

They are a great deal of picture hosting solutions to choose from on-line. Some are totally free, and other people charge a small monthly or yearly fee.

Currently I use Photobucket picture hosting. They have a totally free starter package deal (which gives you 25 MB of disc space) or a top quality package deal (limitless disc space) to store your pictures. You can subscribe to the top quality package deal for 3 months ($nine.00) or 1 yr ($25.00).

Now, how to load your pictures on your picture-hosting services?

Initial, you have to resize your pictures. 1 reason for resizing your photos is that Photobucket limits the dimension of the pictures you can load – 250 KB for the totally free package deal and one MB for the top quality package deal.

The second reason is that you do not want to slow down your eBay listings with massive pictures! Big pictures consider forever to load, and potential clients will hit the back again button instead of waiting.

So I recommend limiting each image to a dimension of 500 pixels maximum. I use the totally free Irfanview picture optimizer to resize my pictures.

As soon as your photos are resized, you can upload them to your picture hosting services, which is very simple.

For Photobucket, you have to log in into your account. As soon as you are in, there is a white window on leading of the web page marked “image”, with a “browse” button on the right. Click on “browse”, and a new “choose file” window will seem. That window exhibits the files in your computer. From that window, choose the file containing the image you want to upload to the Web.

As soon as you have discovered the right image, highlight it with your mouse and then in the “choose file window”, click on the “open” button. The name and location of your image will then seem on the Photobucket screen.

Now click on the “submit” button, and voila! Your selected image is on Photobucket. You can even load several pictures at the exact same time by utilizing the “submit multiple pictures” feature.

All right, your image is now on Photobucket. But how do you insert that image in your eBay listing?

As soon as your picture is hosted on Photobucket, you will have to duplicate the URL of that picture (which is straight under it) and paste it into your eBay listing. Use the subsequent html code to show the image properly in your listing (do not forget to inverse the quotation marks at the beginning and at the finish of this code!) paste your Photobucket picture URL where it states “the URL of your image”:

>img src=”the URL of your image”img src=”the URL of your image” border=8