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How to configure image settings

The Images settings decide how your product photos look when they reach your webshop and marketplaces, and whether the AI writes alt texts for them. Go to Settings > Images to open them.

Your original photos are never changed. StoreLinkr keeps the original and our CDN applies your settings at the moment an integration fetches the photo. With every option switched off, the photo goes out exactly as it is.

Optimise product photos​

  • Trim white space: removes the white border around the product, so the product appears larger. Useful for supplier photos with a lot of white space around the product.
  • Aspect ratio: choose Keep original, Square (1:1), Landscape (4:3) or Portrait (3:4). With a fixed ratio the product is centred and padded with white, so all photos in your webshop have the same size.
  • White margin: only shown with a fixed aspect ratio. Sets the space between the product and the edge of the photo, from 0% to 20% (default 4%).
  • Maximum size: the longest side of the photo, from 600 to 3000 px (default 1200 px). With a fixed aspect ratio this is also the size of the photo. With Keep original, smaller photos are never enlarged.
  • Compress photos: makes the files smaller without visible loss of quality, so your webshop loads faster. The file type stays the same.
  • Quality: only shown when compression is on. Choose a value from 50 to 95; 80 is a good balance between quality and file size.

Click Save to store your choices.

Only for new exports

The settings apply to photos that are exported from now on. Photos that are already in your webshop are not uploaded again automatically.

Preview​

Below the settings, the Preview block shows a few of your own product photos twice: the Original and how it looks With these settings. The preview updates as soon as you change a setting, before you save, so you can try options without affecting your exports.

Alt texts​

An alt text describes a photo for search engines and for visitors who use a screen reader.

Switch on Let AI write alt texts and the AI writes a separate alt text for every photo whenever a product is enriched, based on the product data. Alt texts you entered yourself are kept: the AI only fills photos without an alt text.

This option uses your AI Agent, so it can only be switched on once the AI Agent is active. If it is not, the page shows a link to the AI settings. In the AI settings, the Product enrichment block has a button Image alt texts that brings you back to this page.

Alt texts for one product​

On the detail page of a PIM product, the Images tab has a button Alt texts with AI. It writes a new alt text for every photo of that product. This works even when the automatic option above is off. After you confirm, the alt texts of all photos of that product are replaced, including texts you wrote yourself. You can still change each alt text by hand afterwards, see Products.

For a WooCommerce webshop, alt texts written by the AI are sent to photos that are already in your shop right away. Other webshops and marketplaces receive them the next time the photo is exported.