Technology · Advice & Questions · Oct 18

Can I use a cleaner product photo if the editing tool changed the stitching?

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The background cleaner removed the laundry basket behind my handmade bag. It also smoothed the uneven stitch beside the handle. The result looked better than the bag on the table.

I was about to use it as the main photo for a small online listing. My friend said shoppers wanted to see the bag, not my laundry, and the close-up photo would still show the stitching. I liked the clean thumbnail enough to nearly accept that.

The bag costs $45 in the listing, and there is only one of it. I could retake the picture against a plain wall tomorrow, but I had planned to finish tonight.

Is the close-up enough, or should the main image show that stitch too? The tidier picture solves my background problem by quietly fixing part of the thing I am selling.

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@TheoInTransit

Retaking it seems like a small delay compared with starting the listing with a picture you know improves the item itself. The laundry basket is incidental; the stitch is part of this particular bag. A clean background does not require a corrected product.

@maren17

The close-up helps, but a shopper may first judge the bag from the main image. Make the images consistent enough that seeing the close-up feels like getting more detail rather than discovering a different condition.

Can I use a cleaner product photo if the editing tool changed the stitching?

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