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Vinted · Checked 20 Aug 2026

Vinted photo size, and the editing rule nobody mentions

Vinted allows up to 20 photos and does not force a crop, so the shape you upload is the shape buyers see. It also states in its Catalogue Rules that no image editing is allowed — which changes which tools you should touch, and is where this page starts.

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Vinted photo specifications

Portrait · recommended

900 × 12003:4

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
20
Maximum file size
Not published
Minimum pixels
Not published
Accepted formats
JPG, PNG

2 sizes worth having

  • 900 × 12003:4

    Portrait. Vinted does not force a square crop, and a taller frame fills more of a phone screen.

  • 1200 × 12001:1

    Square. Use this if you cross-list the same photos to a square-only marketplace.

On these dimensions: Vinted 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 Vinted, and clearing the pixel figure above costs you nothing.

Vinted restricts editing — read this before you use any tool

Vinted's Catalogue Rules state that no image editing is allowed. Resizing and cropping to fit the frame is ordinary preparation, but do not whiten backgrounds or retouch out marks — Vinted asks you to show wear.

Resize your photos for Vinted

Already set to 900 × 1200. Drop in as many photos as you like — they are processed on your own device, so nothing is uploaded and there is no queue.

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Size
How to reach that shape

900×1200 · 3:4 · up to 20 photos

Vinted does not force a square crop, and a taller frame fills more of a phone screen.

Verified 20 Aug 2026Vinted — Catalogue RulesFull Vinted photo guide

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What “no image editing” actually rules out

Read literally, the rule would prohibit the resizing Vinted's own uploader performs on every photo you send it, which cannot be the intent. The test that makes sense of it is Vinted's other sentence — photos mustrepresent the item as it is — and that test has a clear answer in almost every real case.

Changing how much of the frame the item fills is preparation. Changing what the item looks like is misdescription. Everything below is sorted by that question, not by which menu the feature lives under.

Preparation — the item is unchanged

  • Resizing and cropping

    Changes how much of the frame the item fills. The item itself is untouched, which is why every marketplace expects it and why Vinted's own uploader does it to your photo anyway.

  • Rotating an upright photo upright

    A phone photo that arrives sideways is a metadata problem, not an edit. Standing it up is restoring what the camera saw.

  • Compressing the file

    Fewer bytes, same picture, same item. It is what stops a 12 MB photo failing to upload on a phone connection.

  • Removing EXIF and GPS data

    Deletes the coordinates of your home from the file. It changes nothing a buyer can see, and it is the one edit we would call mandatory.

Editing — the buyer sees something else

  • Whitening or replacing the background

    Changes what the buyer sees behind the item, and on a worn garment the same arithmetic that lifts a grey sheet can lift a pale mark on the fabric with it. Do not use a background whitener on Vinted photos — including ours.

  • Retouching out marks, stains or wear

    The clearest breach available. Vinted requires you to show defects, so removing one is not a photo edit at that point — it is a misdescribed item, and it is what refund disputes are made of.

  • Boosting colour or brightness to flatter

    Colour is the single most common reason a Vinted buyer says the item is not as described. A photo edited until the shade is wrong fails the "as it is" test even though nothing was removed.

  • Filters, borders, text and watermarks

    All of it reads as marketing material rather than a record of the item. Watermarks in particular are prohibited outright, ownership attributions included.

We sell none of this, so there is no reason to soften it: this site publishes a background whitener and we are telling you not to point it at a Vinted listing. If a photo needs a cleaner backdrop, the honest version is a plain sheet and a window, and it takes about the same amount of time.

20 slots, and the four Vinted effectively requires

Most of Vinted's photo rules are not about size at all — they are about what has to be visible. Four of your twenty slots are close to mandatory, and for branded items three of those four are written into the rules.

  1. 1

    The whole item, clearly

    Required as the first photo. Not a detail, not a styled fragment — the entire thing, in focus, in daylight if you can get it.

  2. 2

    Labels and stitchingRequired for branded

    Brand label, care label, interior stitching. For designer goods, electronics and cosmetics Vinted requires at least three close-ups of this kind as authenticity evidence.

  3. 3

    Serial number, receipt or proof

    Where one exists. Cover any part of a receipt that is your own personal information before you photograph it — cropping a receipt is preparation, not editing.

  4. 4

    Every flaw, lit so it reads

    A bobbled cuff, a faded print, a scuffed sole. Photographing the fault is not honesty for its own sake — it is the evidence that closes a “not as described” case in your favour.

The one edit we would call mandatory on Vinted

Strip the EXIF metadata before you upload. A phone photo taken at home carries GPS coordinates accurate to a few metres, and twenty photos of a garment on your bedroom floor is twenty copies of your address in a file you are handing to strangers. It changes nothing a buyer can see, which is exactly why it is not an edit in any sense Vinted's rules care about — and it is afree tool on this site.

Vinted rules and details worth knowing

Dimensions are the easy part. These are the things a listing actually gets penalised for, inVinted'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
Vinted 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 Vinted'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 Vinted photos be?
900 × 1200 is a good default — a 3:4 portrait frame fills more of a phone screen than square does, and Vinted does not force a crop. Vinted publishes no pixel dimensions at all. It is widely reported to resize uploads to around 1200px on the long edge, which we could not confirm first-party, but a 4000px upload certainly buys you nothing beyond upload time.
How many photos can a Vinted listing have?
20, per Vinted's own step-by-step uploading guide. That is the most generous allowance of any of the resale apps, and it exists because Vinted expects evidence: the whole item, every angle, every flaw, and the labels.
Does Vinted really not allow photo editing?
Its Catalogue Rules require photos to "represent the item as it is" and state that no image editing is allowed. In practice that is aimed at altering the item — retouching out damage, replacing backgrounds, colour-grading a garment into a shade it is not. Resizing and cropping to fit the frame is ordinary preparation and is what Vinted's own uploader does to your photo regardless. The section above draws the line case by case.
Can I use a background remover or whitener on Vinted photos?
We would not, and this site makes one. A whitener changes what the buyer sees behind the item, and on worn clothing the same threshold that lifts a grey bedsheet can lift a pale mark on the fabric along with it. Vinted asks you to show wear, so the downside is a rule breach and a returns dispute, and the upside is a slightly tidier thumbnail. Photograph against a plain sheet in daylight instead — it is the same result, honestly obtained.
Does Vinted allow stock photos?
No. Photos must be taken by you, for Vinted. Stock images, pictures lifted from an advert and watermarked images are all prohibited, and repeatedly refusing to supply proper photographs can get an account suspended. For branded items Vinted goes further and asks for authenticity evidence.
What photos does Vinted require for designer or branded items?
The first photo must show the whole item clearly, and for designer goods, electronics and cosmetics Vinted additionally requires at least three close-ups evidencing authenticity — labels, stitching, serial numbers, receipts or proof of purchase. Those are requirements rather than suggestions, and they are also the photos that stop a buyer asking whether the item is genuine.
Should Vinted photos be portrait or square?
Whichever you prefer — but be consistent. Because there is no forced crop, the aspect ratio you upload is what buyers see, so a closet mixing 3:4 and 1:1 looks unplanned in a way a square-cropping marketplace would have hidden for you. Portrait fills more of a phone screen; square is the better choice if the same photos are going to Mercari or eBay.
Does Vinted have a file size limit?
None that Vinted publishes, which is why this page does not invent one. Compressing to 1 to 2 MB per photo is still worth doing — twenty photos straight off a modern phone is well over 100 MB, and that is an upload people abandon rather than finish.

Photo sizes for the other marketplaces

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