About Specifications

Overview

This article will describe the functionality of specifications and different types of image optimizations available in a basic specification.

What is a specification?

To get started using Pixelz, you must first create a specification. Specifications tell our editors exactly how your images should be edited. Each specification contains settings that define the specific steps the images go through and which editing tasks are completed. They are saved in your account and can be re-used for future orders.

Each specification has a price. This is the price you will pay for each individual image submitted on the specification. Your images must be submitted on a specification that contains settings that align with your needs and expectations.

Many of our customers like to create their own custom specifications, but we also offer preset specifications for people who sell on marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay. By using these preset specifications, we guarantee that your images will be Amazon or eBay compliant**.

Specification Settings

There are a huge number of settings available to you for fine-tuning your specifications to ensure your finished images meet your requirements. We divide settings into 3 main categories:

1. Standard Settings

Standard settings are those which are included in the base price. You can choose as many of these settings as you like without the specification price increasing. These are:

• Background removal
• Alignment & straightening
• Cropping
• Resizing
• Compression
• File format
• Color profile
• DPI
• File size
• Meta-data

2. Optional Add-ons

You can further customize your specifications with our range of add-ons. Add-ons incur an additional cost which is added to the base price.

These are:

• Invisible Mannequin
• Clipping Path
• Shadow
• Color Matching
• Retouch packages

3. Custom Settings

We have many more specification settings available behind the scenes that are not visible to you within your Pixelz account. Sometimes, this is because they are complex and, therefore, difficult to make comprehensible within a self-service interface. Sometimes, this is because they are rarely used, so they would clog up and complicate the user interface unnecessarily.

Be sure to reach out to your Professional Plan Specialist (during your trial) or our Customer Success Team via professional@pixelz.com (if you're a subscriber) if this is the case.

Types Of Specifications

There are three recommended ways to create your specifications based on where you plan to sell your products.

Marketplaces

If you plan on using a marketplace such as Amazon or eBay to sell your products, we would suggest using our Marketplaces option. This will assist you with ensuring your images will be compliant with your marketplace standards. You can learn more about how to use the Marketplaces option here.

Step-by-step 

If you are a photographer and have some experience editing your own product images, then we would suggest using our Step-by-step option to set up your specifications. This will allow you to customize your specifications using more advanced options, as well as selecting add-ons for your images. You can learn more about how to set up your specifications using the Step-by-step option here.

Manual

If you are advanced with image editing and own an eCommerce site, we would suggest using our Manual option to set up your specifications. This will allow you to pick and choose from advanced image optimizations, as well as selecting add-ons for your images. You can learn more about how to set up your specifications using the Manual option here.

**The only images that we are unable to make marketplace compliant are images that are smaller than the marketplaces' minimum size standards. For example, we are unable to change a 200x200 pixel product image to a 1000x1000 pixel product image (by upscaling). If we did this, the final image would most likely be blurry/grainy and risk the possibility of being rejected by the marketplaces.