Note: New subscriptions to Picture Manager are no longer available because we’re in the process of discontinuing this service. If you're already a Picture Manager subscriber, you can continue to use the service until approximately April 2010. But if you unsubscribe, you won't be able to re-subscribe. Find out about other eBay photo hosting options.

To upload pictures in Picture Manager, click the Add Pictures button. You can upload the following file types in Picture Manager:

• JPEG (.jpg file extension)

• BMP (.bmp file extension)

• GIF (.gif file extension)

• TIFF (.tif file extension)

• PNG (.png file extension)

• Animated .gif (Internet Explorer only) (.gif file extension)

If you are having trouble uploading pictures please read our Picture Hosting Overview and Basic or Enhanced troubleshooting tips.

You can upload pictures using the Basic or the Enhanced Uploader depending on your Operating System and Web browser.

Basic Uploader

The Basic Uploader can be used on all the supported operating system and browser configurations. The Basic Uploader does not compress pictures before upload. Upload time depends on the size of your originals and the speed of your Internet connection.

Original Size and Watermark Options

You can store original size copies of your pictures and add watermarks to them.

Picture Manager will create several copies of your pictures with standard dimensions for use in eBay page layouts. Selecting the Original Size option, Picture Manager will keep an additional copy of your original picture file from your local hard drive.

You can also choose to watermark your pictures with the eBay Picture Hosting logo and with your User ID (up to 20 characters). The logo will appear at the bottom right corner of the picture; your user ID will appear at the bottom left corner.

If you choose to keep an original-sized copy or apply watermarks, the original pictures stored on your computer are not changed or deleted when uploading to Picture Manager. It is important to note that storing original-sized copies can significantly deplete your storage space.

For more information on picture sizes and watermarking, see Standardising and Watermarking Pictures

Select a Folder

Use the “Place in Folder” drop-down menu to select the folder to store the pictures in, after they are uploaded. You can add, rename, and delete folders in the album view in My eBay

Enhanced Uploader

If you are using Windows 2000 and Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher, you can use the eBay Enhanced Uploader for Picture Manager.(displayed below)

The Enhanced Uploader provides all features of the Basic Uploader and enables you to:

• Preview pictures

• Rename pictures

• Crop pictures

• Rotate pictures

• AutoFix (automatically improve contrast and brightness) pictures

• Manually adjust the contrast and brightness of pictures

• Upload up to 150 pictures at one time (within the limits of the storage space your subscription provides)

• Enables faster upload times.

Installing the Enhanced Uploader

If you are using a supported version of Windows and Internet Explorer, then the first time you click the Add Pictures button in Picture Manager you will be prompted to download the Enhanced Uploader software (an Active X control) from eBay. Accept the prompts (which are different for different versions of Windows and Internet Explorer) to install the software..

Upload pictures from your computer

You can select as many pictures as you like when using Picture Manager in My eBay, but you can't exceed the limit of 150 pictures each Picture Manager folder may contain.

When uploading to Picture Manager on other pages, such as the Sell Your Item form, you can select up to the number of pictures allowed on that page. The Enhanced Uploader will display how many pictures have been inserted and the number of picture slots available.

Preview, name, and adjust your pictures

The following picture adjustments are available by clicking the command buttons:

If you make an adjustment and don't like the result, click the Undo button. This will restore the picture to its previous state. When you have completed all of your adjustments to your pictures, click the Upload All button.

Select a Folder

Use the pull-down menu of folder names to choose the Picture Manager folder to store the pictures after upload. You can add, rename, and delete folders in the Picture Manager in My eBay.