Crop Product Photos for Marketplace Listings

When to use this guide

• You took photos under mixed room lighting and need to remove table edges.
• Your marketplace requires a clean main image with no distracting background objects.
• You need matching framing for many SKUs and want predictable output size.

Step-by-step workflow

1. Open /editor and upload the original product photo at full resolution.
2. Use the zoom controls to inspect the product boundary before drawing.
3. Start with polygon mode on straight edges (boxes, labels, packaging).
4. Switch to freehand for curved edges like bottles, cables, or fabric folds.
5. Close the path and verify no holes appear in the product body.
6. Use clear and redraw if the first cut clips important corners.
7. Download PNG, then preview it on both white and dark backgrounds to catch missed pixels.
8. Repeat with the same zoom and framing approach for consistency across the catalog.

Quality notes

• Shoot with extra margin around the object; tight framing makes path correction harder.
• If the background is similar to product color, zoom in and draw in smaller segments.
• For reflective packaging, trace the outer silhouette, not the highlights.
• Keep source files organized by SKU so recropping is easy later.

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