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Product photos on a white background: pure white, fill and shadow

A marketplace main image has three requirements that matter: a ground that is truly white, a product big enough in the frame, and nothing else in the picture. Here is what each means in numbers, and the one trade-off a shadow brings.

Pure white is a number

“White background” on a main image means RGB 255, 255, 255 — every channel at maximum. A product photographed on white card under a lamp is not that: the card comes out between about 220 and 245, with a gradient where the light falls off and a colour cast from the bulb. Replacing the ground makes every ground pixel exactly 255.

The row this site applies: Pure white, RGB 255, 255, 255; the product fills at least 85% of the frame. Size: 1000 px or more on the longest side (2000 × 2000 set here). Secondary source — confirm on the marketplace's own seller help pages. Read 18 October 2026; next re-read due 18 April 2027.

Fill: big enough to see

A product that sits small in a sea of white looks lost in a search grid, and listings commonly ask for it to fill about 85% of the frame. The product route's Fit to 85% scales the product so its box covers 85% of the canvas on the longer axis and centres it; the receipt measures the same share on the file you save.

The shadow trade-off

A product floating on pure white can look pasted on. A soft contact shadow under it — or a reflection, for glass and polished goods — seats it on a surface and looks more like a studio shot. But a shadow is, by definition, darker than white. The ground under and beside it is no longer 255.

What the receipt says

When a shadow is on, the receipt says so in its own line: the ground near the shadow is darker on purpose, and a listing that wants every ground pixel at one value wants it off. The ground-value and evenness lines are measured on what was actually written, shadow included.

A sensible split: no shadow on the main image, where the strict check applies; a contact shadow, a reflection or a studio ground on the secondary images, where it does not.

Edges on white

White is the least forgiving ground for a bad edge: a dark fringe from the old background shows as a grey line. Keep edge unmixing on, check the edge at 1:1, and pull it in with Edge shift if a line survives. For products, the any-subject model usually finds a cleaner outline than colour alone.

Questions about product photos on white

Is 250, 250, 250 close enough to white?

To your eye, yes. To a marketplace's automated check that asks for RGB 255, 255, 255, no — and the main image is the one place where that check is applied. Use Document white for a main image and keep off-white for portals that reject a perfectly even maximum.

Can a main image have a shadow?

Many listings show a soft contact shadow and are accepted, because reviewers look at the whole image. But a shadow is darker than white by definition, so if a check samples every ground pixel for 255, the shadow pixels fail it. The receipt says this whenever a shadow is on, instead of calling the ground uniform.

What does Fit to 85% do exactly?

It finds the box around the product, scales the product so that box covers 85% of the canvas on its longer side, and centres it. The receipt then measures the fill again on the saved file.

Why a square 2000 × 2000 canvas?

Marketplaces commonly ask for 1000 px or more on the longest side so shoppers can zoom; 2000 × 2000 is comfortably above that and square, which is how most listing grids crop. Confirm the current figure on the marketplace's own seller help pages.

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