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Depop · Checked 20 Aug 2026

Depop photo size, and how to spend all eight slots

Depop's grid is square and its cap is 8 photos — enforced, whatever the older help article says. Depop publishes no pixel target at all, so this page gives you a size that clears every version of the advice, then spends its time on the part that actually sells: what to put in each slot.

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Depop photo specifications

Square · recommended

1280 × 12801:1

Mobile feed

Almost every view is a phone-sized card in a scrolling feed. Past roughly 1200px you are adding upload time, not clarity — framing matters far more than pixels.

Photos per listing
8
Maximum file size
Not published
Minimum pixels
Not published
Accepted formats
JPG, PNG

2 sizes worth having

  • 1280 × 12801:1

    Square. Depop's browse grid is square. Secondary sources put the ideal at 1080, 1280 or 1440px — 1280 clears every version of that advice.

  • 1080 × 13504:5

    Portrait. Taller frame for full-body and styled shots. The grid still crops it square, so keep the subject centred.

On these dimensions: Depop does not publish this, so it is a conservative reading of secondary sources. We say so rather than implying precision we have not earned. The ratio is the part that matters on Depop, and clearing the pixel figure above costs you nothing.

Resize your photos for Depop

Already set to 1280 × 1280. Drop in as many photos as you like — they are processed on your own device, so nothing is uploaded and there is no queue.

Marketplace
Size
How to reach that shape

1280×1280 · 1:1 · up to 8 photos

Depop's browse grid is square. Secondary sources put the ideal at 1080, 1280 or 1440px — 1280 clears every version of that advice.

Verified 20 Aug 2026Depop Selling API — request limits (8 pictures)Full Depop photo guide

Drop your listing photos here

Add as many as you like. Pick the marketplace, adjust any crop that needs it, and download them all as one ZIP.

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Drop anywhere
The whole page accepts photos — no need to aim for a small box.

8 photos, and what belongs in each one

Eight is a real constraint. eBay allows twenty-four, so there you can afford a slot for every angle you thought of; here, two near-identical styled shots cost you the fabric label. This is the order we would shoot them in, and it is close to the order buyers ask about them.

  1. 1

    The one that stops the scroll

    Styled, on a person, in daylight. This is the only photo most people will ever see, and Depop's audience responds to how something looks worn far more than to a flat-lay of it.

  2. 2

    The whole item, plainly

    Flat or on a hanger, front on, nothing cropped. The photo that answers "what am I actually buying" without any styling in the way.

  3. 3

    The back

    Half of all returns start with something on the back nobody photographed.

  4. 4

    The brand and size label

    Close, in focus, readable. On vintage this is also the authenticity evidence, and it is the photo buyers message you for when it is missing.

  5. 5

    The fabric or care label

    Composition and washing instructions in one shot. It saves a conversation and it is what separates a considered listing from a rushed one.

  6. 6

    Every flaw, honestly

    A mark, a pull, a missing button, a worn heel. Photographing the fault is what protects you if the buyer opens a dispute — hiding it is what loses one.

  7. 7

    The detail that justifies the price

    Hardware, stitching, a print up close, a lining. The texture shot is the one that makes a fair price feel obvious.

  8. 8

    Scale or a second styling

    The item next to something recognisable, or worn a second way. Either turns a maybe into a purchase.

Nothing about that list is Depop-specific except its length — but its length is the point. If you cross-list, shoot for the platform with the tightest cap and you will always have enough for the others.

Your photo appears twice, at two different shapes

This is the bit that catches people out. Depop shows your first photo in the browse grid as a square, and on the listing page at whatever shape you uploaded. Both are real, but only one of them is competing for attention against a screen full of other sellers.

In the grid

Square, cropped from the centre

A 4:5 photo loses roughly a fifth of its height here — split between the top and the bottom. Shoes photographed at the bottom of a tall frame, or a hat at the top, can simply be gone.

On the listing

Whatever you uploaded

Full frame, nothing trimmed. Worth having a taller photo here for a full-length outfit — just not at the cost of the crop that has to earn the tap in the first place.

The practical version

Upload square at 1280 × 1280 and you never think about this again — the grid shows what you framed, and the listing page shows the same thing. If you want the taller styled shot, put the square one first and the portrait one second. Depop's audience skews hard toward styled, on-model photographs rather than flat-lays, so framing is where the wins are; resolution past 1280px is not.

Depop rules and details worth knowing

Dimensions are the easy part. These are the things a listing actually gets penalised for, inDepop's own words wherever it has published them.

Where these numbers came from

Guides on this topic contradict each other, and several of the most-copied figures are simply wrong. So every claim here carries its provenance, split in two — because the pixel guidance and the hard limits genuinely do not come from the same quality of source.

Dimensions and ratioDerived
Depop does not publish this, so it is a conservative reading of secondary sources. We say so rather than implying precision we have not earned.
Photo count, file size and floorsFirst-party
Read directly off Depop's own pages, listed below, on 20 Aug 2026.

Pages we checked on 20 Aug 2026

Where two credible sources disagree on a limit, we take the lower number: preparing 12 photos for a marketplace that accepts 20 costs you nothing, and preparing 20 for one that accepts 12 wastes work at the point of listing.

Common questions

What size should Depop photos be?
1280 × 1280 pixels square. Depop does not publish a pixel target anywhere we could find, and secondary sources put the ideal at 1080, 1280 or 1440 — 1280 clears all three without producing a file so large it slows your upload. The ratio matters far more than the pixel count here, because the grid crops.
How many photos can you add to a Depop listing — four or 8?
8. One Depop help article still says "add up to four photos", but its Selling API rejects a ninth with the error "too many pictures were provided. The maximum is 8 pictures.", and its search-ranking guidance also says eight. The API is the version actually enforced at upload, so eight is the number to plan around.
Does Depop crop my photos?
The browse grid does, to a square. Your full photo is preserved and shown on the listing page itself, so nothing is destroyed — but the version that has to earn the tap is the square one. Upload square and you decide what that crop contains; upload a tall photo and Depop decides for you.
Do more photos help Depop search ranking?
Depop's own guidance on improving search ranking lists photo quality and completeness among the things it considers, so filling the slots is worth doing — but the honest mechanism is simpler than ranking. Eight photos answer eight questions a buyer would otherwise have to message you about, and listings that answer questions convert.
Can I use the brand's official product photos on Depop?
No. Depop removes listings that use stock images, and it is one of the rules enforced most consistently. Photograph the actual item you are selling, in the actual condition it is in — which is also what the flaw and label shots in the list above are for.
Should Depop photos be portrait or square?
Square, unless you have a reason. The grid crops to square regardless, so a 4:5 portrait upload gets its top and bottom trimmed in the place where it matters most. The portrait preset exists for full-body styled shots where the extra height genuinely earns its place on the listing page — keep the subject centred so the square crop still works.
Are my photos uploaded to a server when I resize them here?
No. The cropping and encoding happen in this browser tab, on your own device, and there is no server involved. Open your network inspector and resize a batch if you would rather check than take our word for it.

Photo sizes for the other marketplaces

Cross-listing the same item? The resizer can produce every one of these sizes from the same photos in a single pass — pick a preset, download, switch preset, download again.

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