Why use an Image Hosting Service instead of eBay Picture Services?
1) You will probably save on the Picture Services fees! 2) You will get much better image quality. When you use eBay Picture Services, eBay takes your images and does a couple of things to them. First it resizes them so they are at most 400 pixels wide. Then they compress the image into a JPEG format file (.jpg). Both of these steps can cause a perfectly sharp image to get fuzzy if you are not careful to preserve quality, and for some reason eBay is not careful. The biggest problem is the JPEG compression step. JPEG is what is called a ‘lossy’ compression format, where you lose more quality the more you compress. And eBay compresses a lot! When you host the images elsewhere make sure the service does not recompress or otherwise process your images in any way. Then if you use Fast Photos to editing the images, what you see is what you will get — the best possible quality.
