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Amazon image requirements (2026)

Everything Amazon actually enforces on product images: what gets your listing suppressed, what merely hurts conversion, and what software can fix for you.

The rules, in one table

The zoom threshold is the one that pays

1000px keeps your listing alive; 1600px switches on hover-zoom, and zoom is directly tied to conversion on detail pages. If your camera exports at 1200px, you are past the floor but leaving the feature off. This is exactly the case the pipeline’s ×4 upscale exists for: it only runs on photos below the strictest minimum, and the result is re-measured before it ships.

Pure white is measured, not eyeballed

Amazon requires the MAIN image background to be pure white, RGB (255, 255, 255), and enforcement is automated: pixels are sampled, impressions are not consulted. A backdrop that photographs as very light gray fails. Photolint measures the background the same way (98% of background pixels effectively white to pass), replaces it with a verified pure-white composite when the subject mask is confident, and flags the output for your eyes when it cannot verify the fix.

MAIN versus PT slots

The MAIN image carries the strict rules: pure white, no text or watermarks, product filling at least 85% of the frame. PT (alternate) slots are looser and are where lifestyle shots, details and scale references belong. Photolint promotes the photo named with the main or front view to the MAIN slot and renames the rest to PT01, PT02 and onward in a stable order, matching the flat-file convention.

What no software can fix

Text or watermarks baked into the MAIN image, and products cut off at the frame edge. Photolint flags both as RESHOOT instead of pretending; a listing suppressed after upload costs more than a reshoot.