Marketplace image specs
Google Shopping jewelry photo requirements
Size rules for Google Shopping product images: 1500 px recommended. Every rule below links to Google Shopping’s own page, checked October 5, 2026.
The rules
| Topic | Rule | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum size | Size requirements: "At least 500 x 500 pixels". Banner on the same page: "We recently announced new image size requirements of at least 500 x 500 pixels for all products beginning January 31, 2027." Product data spec: "Enforcement of the new requirements will begin January 31, 2027." source | Required |
| Minimum size (effect on additional images) | "If you include images that are under the minimum size requirements, your product won't be disapproved, but your images won't be shown." source | Required |
| Maximum size / max file size | "No image larger than 64 megapixels" and "No image file larger than 16MB". source | Required |
| File types | "JPEG (.jpg / .jpeg) - recommended, WebP (.webp) - recommended, PNG (.png), GIF (.gif), BMP (.bmp), TIFF (.tif / .tiff)". "The file extension must correspond to its actual format. Using incorrect file extensions (for example, using .jpg for a .png file) leads to 'Unsupported image type' errors." source | Required |
| File types (GIF must be static) | Product data spec: "Use an accepted format: JPEG (.jpg/.jpeg), WebP (.webp), PNG (.png), non-animated GIF (.gif), BMP (.bmp), and TIFF (.tif/.tiff)." source | Required |
| Lifestyle images (size, aspect ratio, overlays) | "Use an image with a minimum resolution of 600 x 600 pixels and an aspect ratio between 2:0 and 2:3." (ratio quoted as printed). Promotional text, overlays and logos are not allowed. "Don't use an image with a border or use padding to meet aspect ratio requirements." Lifestyle images "can be shown to potential customers in free listings". The product data spec says they are "Only available for browsy surfaces." source | Required |
| Image URL / crawlability | The URL "Must start with http:// or https://, contain ASCII characters only, and be RFC 3986 compliant". Limits are "1 – 2,000 characters". Symbols must be encoded (& as %26, comma as %2C). "Ensure your robots.txt file allows access to both Googlebot and Googlebot-image". Best practice: "Use stable URLs: Avoid dynamic parameters (for example, timestamps or session IDs)". source | Required |
| Number of images | image_link is "Required for each product": "Submit only one URL in the image link [image_link] attribute." additional_image_link: "Include up to 10 additional images". lifestyle_image_link: up to 5 lifestyle images. source | Required |
| Accuracy / image quality | "Accurately display the product." "Don't scale up an image or submit a thumbnail." "Don't include promotional text, watermarks, or borders." "Don't submit a placeholder or a generic image." source | Required |
| Text/watermarks/logos (main image) | "Don't use an image that contains promotional elements or overlays". Adding them "will cause an image disapproval". Google lists what to avoid: calls to action ("Buy", "Shop now"), price and shipping details, service or warranty claims, promotional adjectives ("Best", "Cheap"), condition or compatibility text ("New", "2-piece set"), barcodes and QR codes, "Overlays and watermarks: Stock photo watermarks,… source | Required |
| Borders | "Don't use an image with a border. To ensure that your image works with a variety of design elements, don't include borders around your image." source | Required |
| Placeholders / generic images / illustrations (main image) | "Your primary image must clearly display the exact item being sold." Google says not to submit "Coming soon", "No image available" or "Photo pending" graphics. It also says not to use a logo or stock icon in place of a product photo, not to "reuse one general photo across multiple distinct products", and "Don't submit line art, mockups, or illustrations that don't depict the physical product." "Don't use a… source | Required |
| Props/models (other products in the image) | "Don't include any product that's not sold together with the main product." source | Required |
| Jewelry-specific: customized, engraved or stone-only listings | "Imagine you sell custom engagement rings... If you want to advertise the stone only... Submit an image of the stone alone, the price of the stone itself, and a title beginning with "stone only" or something similar." For customized products: "Submit the price [price] and image link [image_link] of the final customized product". source | Required |
| Additional images (allowed content) | Additional images must meet the image_link requirements, with exceptions. They can "Include product staging or show the product in use" and "Highlight parts of the product" (close-ups). Do not submit "Blurry or misshapen images", brand-only or logo images, or images with a watermark or irrelevant text. source | Required |
| Additional images (graphics allowed) | additional_image_link must meet the image_link requirements "with these exceptions: The image can include product staging and show the product in use. Graphics or illustrations can be included." source | Required |
| Misrepresentation | Not allowed: "Offers that represent you or your products in a way that isn't accurate, realistic, and truthful." Also: "Manipulating media to deceive, defraud, or mislead others is not allowed". source | Required |
| Image quality (Demand Gen product ads) | Disallowed: "Blurry: Images that are blurry or unclear". "Distorted: Images that are visually oddly skewed or shaped, morphed, upside-down, distastefully out of focus, color-inverted, excessively filtered, distorted, or contain watermarks". "Poorly cropped: Images that are critically cropped or contain even minimally cropped text overlay". source | Required |
| AI-generated or AI-edited images (metadata) | "All images created using generative AI must contain meta data indicating that the image was AI-generated (for example, the IPTC DigitalSourceTypeTrainedAlgorithmicMedia metadata tag). Don't remove embedded metadata tags such as the IPTC DigitalSourceType property from images created using generative AI tools, for example Product Studio." The IPTC codes to keep are TrainedAlgorithmicMedia, CompositeSynthetic… source | Required |
| Recommended size | "When possible, we recommend that you provide images around 1500x1500 pixels or above to ensure best performance in all listing formats." source | Recommended |
| Recommended size (apparel and accessories guide) | "Image resolution should be at least 512x512, but ideally 1024 or higher." "It's best to use a minimum image width of 1500 pixels." source | Recommended |
| Aspect ratio | The image_link and additional_image_link pages set no aspect ratio. The apparel and accessories guide says: "An ideal aspect ratio is 9:11 (width : height) for vertical images and 4:3 (width : height) for horizontal images." source | Recommended |
| Main image background | The live image_link page has no background rule. The apparel and accessories guide says: "Use a solid white or transparent background. Using these colors keeps your image looking great in a variety of formats, styles, or designs." Google's own jewelry example for the main image is "Only the ring on a white background" (answer/6324370). source | Recommended |
| Product fill | "Frame your product in the image space so that it takes up no less than 75%, but not more than 90%, of the full image." source | Recommended |
AI jewelry photos on Google Shopping: what’s allowed
Google Shopping allows AI-generated and AI-edited product images and offers its own tool for them, Product Studio. There is one hard rule: images made with generative AI must keep the metadata that marks them as AI-generated, such as the IPTC DigitalSourceType tag, so don't strip it when you edit or compress the file. Every image must still show the product accurately, and the main image can't be a mockup or illustration that doesn't show the physical piece.
The jewelry photos that do well on Google Shopping start as a real photo of the piece you are selling. From there, AI photo editing does the slow work: it swaps a cluttered table for a clean white or styled background, evens out the lighting, brings back the sparkle in the stones and can show the piece worn on a model. What stays the same is the piece itself, so check that the metal color, stone count and size in the finished image match what the buyer will open.
That is how Hues works. You upload your own product photo, and every image it makes is built from that photo, ready for your Google Shopping listing.
Frequently asked questions
Google Shopping's image size rules: 1500 px recommended. See the table above for the source of each rule.
Google Shopping allows AI-generated and AI-edited product images and offers its own tool for them, Product Studio. There is one hard rule: images made with generative AI must keep the metadata that marks them as AI-generated, such as the IPTC DigitalSourceType tag, so don't strip it when you edit or compress the file. Every image must still show the product accurately, and the main image can't be a mockup or illustration that doesn't show the physical piece.
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