HI! Dumb question about Gallery Photos

Do you have a link to an example? I'm curious.

Hi
It is done by using a tool called Photomerge (or similar) in a program like Adobe Photoshop Elements, most of the photo programs have something similar but use different names. What it does is stitch 2,(or more, photos together to make a compound one. The photos need to be similar in size but it works well - the only trap is that in some photo programs like Adobe it will save in the default .psd format instead of JPEG and it becomes a very large file until you resave it as JPEG or similar. I have used the Photomerge a lot and once you get used to it can do some very good illustrations. Hope this helps

Hi,

Most of the vintage/indie sellers are using the split/composite thumb image with the Gallery Plus or Featured First features. Funny, I use to use that old trick for graded/slabbed coins a few years back. It definitely works (gets attention). I'm guessing you're a vintage clothing seller by the forum name.

Another tool that works well is Google's free product "Picasa".

http://picasa.google.com/

You can use Picasa to crop your photos and add text banners / logos / watermarks / borders.

Because eBay has adopted the square thumb/header (and so too has Auctiva for Store Window), you can use the Create - Collage selection with Page Format set to "Square: CD Cover". That way the new listing page (going live June 15th) with the 500 x 500 zoom photo header gets full view proportions.

Hope that suggestion helps.

Danno

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Originally posted by Danno:

Because eBay has adopted the square thumb/header (and so too has Auctiva for Store Window), you can use the Create - Collage selection with Page Format set to "Square: CD Cover". That way the new listing page (going live June 15th) with the 500 x 500 zoom photo header gets full view proportions.

Hope that suggestion helps.

Danno

Danno:
Can you please provide more information on a few things you threw out there. I've spent quite a few minutes searching these forums for any info on "a new listing page going live June 15", being able to take advantage of 500x500 images in the header via templates, and "Create Collage" to absolutely no avail.

Any links you can provide would be appreciated. I'm very frustrated with the templates I use providing to the header an image link ending in "_tp.jpg" (a 400x300 image) instead of "_o.jpg" (768x768) to be resized to 500x500. My images are fine within my description, it's just the header I have issue with.

Any assistance on what I need to do to fix this, or if whatever is happening in June will care for it is welcomed.

Thanks,
gardengirl!

Hi gardengirl,

eBay had an announcement on April 14th that included the June 15th rollout of the New Design item listing page. Here's the announcement:

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/2...tml#2009-04-14065506

Here's a brief and look at the new page:

http://pages.ebay.com/sell/newitempage/index.html

The 500 x 500 is a overlay zoom on some of the testing I've seen. They have suggest 1000 zoom possibly coming later in one note I saw on that 2nd link. I have seen some discussion over the past year on the 500 x 500 as a new "standard", but the design has changed serveral times. Note, eBay Picture Manager uses 400 x 400 for a "Standard" size. Do your remember the yellow listing beta pages in the fall? That was the prior design to this monochromatic gray.

The collage feature is found in the Google Picasa free product (see link on prior post). You download and install Picasa at your desktop. Select "Create" and "Picture Collage..." from the menu for that feature.

Danno

Edit: Here's a good sample of the New Design page at the eBay Developers Sandbox. Note the square header and overlay enlarge with zoom. The New Design does away with the traditional bottom picture. The new method is a header with one (or more) images with zoom.

http://cgi.sandbox.ebay.com/ws...sid=p1723.m118.l1247