On Etsy nobody reads anything until a picture has already earned the click.
Your listing photos are doing more work than your description, your tags and
your price put together — and there's a crop happening to your first photo
that most sellers have never noticed.
In this tutorial we build a complete ten-image listing set in Canva: the hero
that survives the crop, the mockups that make a digital file feel like an
object, the scale shot that prevents returns, and the information cards that
answer questions before they're asked. No camera, no studio.
⚠️ The one thing to know: Etsy's search results crop your FIRST photo to
**5:4 — 570 × 456 px**, taking the middle and throwing away the top and
bottom. Upload the recommended 2000 × 2000 square and the version buyers
actually see is a bad crop of it. Everything essential has to live inside the
middle 5:4 band.
🖼 ETSY LISTING IMAGE KIT (the 10-slot Canva template with the safe band
already marked, information cards, mockup pages and the sizes chart):
https://geniusjunkie.net/etsy-listing-image-kit/ — £4.99
🎓 Or FREE with the Template Club (every pack + all future releases):
https://geniusjunkie.net/template-club/
CHAPTERS
0:00 What we're building