Monday, March 9, 2009

Sizing up eBay pictures the right way

So it just breaks my heart every time I see an eBay listing with a picture that looks like this:




















How much of the space on that image is being wasted? It's like a sea of blue!

Well, don't despair - there is an easy fix. If you're working in Windows - all you have to do is open up your Paint program (it's under accessories). Once you're there, just

1) Select the area of the image that's important
2) Left click, select cut (you'll see an empty white spot now)
3) Go down to the lower left and shrink the image field so just a bit of the box shows in the upper right corner
4) Left click inside the reduced work area, click paste
5) Then just save it.

It takes about 20 seconds. Now you have something that looks like this:

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