---
title: "TikTok Shop main image checker — free, in your browser | Herofab"
description: "Check a product photo against TikTok Shop's main-image rules: background colour and square format. Free in your browser; nothing is uploaded."
url: https://herofab.app/tools/tiktok-shop-product-photo-checker
language: en
updated: 2026-11-12
---

# Check your photo against TikTok Shop's rules.

TikTok Shop sets rules for the main image that can be measured from the photo: background colour and square format. Drop a photo to see which ones it meets. It runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

![The brown leather tote alone on a white studio background, front view · TikTok Shop main image checker](https://herofab.app/img/ex/tote-packshot-1100.webp)

Made with Herofab · Packshot studio

## Choose a marketplace and a photo.

Rules come from each marketplace's own help pages, summarised in the [guides](https://herofab.app/guides/) (checked 10 October 2026). Size, file size and format are checked as well.

## What TikTok Shop asks for.

Source: [TikTok Shop Academy (US) — Product listing policy](https://seller-us.tiktok.com/university/essay?knowledge_id=3196690250417921) · checked 10 October 2026 · [Read again · 13 October 2026](https://herofab.app/guides/marketplace-image-rule-changes)

- **Main image:** Pure white background (RGB 255, 255, 255) Square image, width equal to height The front of the product on a pure white background
- **Size:** Every product image at least 600 × 600 pixels
- **Number:** Up to 9 square images, one of them the main image
- **Not allowed:** Added logos, text, borders, watermarks or graphics on any product image
- **Extra images:** The front, back, sides and other details, accessories included; several images of the same angle are not allowed
- **Accuracy:** Only what the customer will receive; placeholders and digital renderings of the product are not allowed
- **Colour:** Images in colour; black-and-white images are not accepted
- **Children's form-fitting items:** Displayed flat, without child models or mannequins
- **AI images:** TikTok Shop's policy on AI-generated listing images allows them when they accurately represent the real product; AI must not change the product's size, colour, shape, features or performance, its quantity or bundle contents, or show unsupported accessories
- **Before and after:** Misleading "before and after" images are prohibited
- **AI visuals:** AI visuals must show the product being sold, not a different main subject, and should not imply performance, effects, functions, motion or included items that the real product does not provide; flat, printed and other 2D products must not be presented as three-dimensional objects unless sold that way
- **Where:** United States
- **Kind of rule:** [Allowed if accurate](https://herofab.app/guides/ai-image-rules-by-platform)
- **TikTok Shop image resizer:** 1,600 × 1,600 px — square, above TikTok Shop's 600 × 600-pixel minimum.
- **Herofab:** 1,600 × 1,600 px, within the limits TikTok Shop publishes

[How each rule is measured.](https://herofab.app/tools/product-photo-checker#h-how)

[TikTok Shop image guide](https://herofab.app/guides/tiktok-shop-product-image-requirements) · [Product photo checker](https://herofab.app/tools/product-photo-checker)

## Checkers by marketplace.

[Kaufland](https://herofab.app/tools/kaufland-product-photo-checker) · [OTTO](https://herofab.app/tools/otto-product-photo-checker) · [Facebook & Instagram Shop](https://herofab.app/tools/facebook-instagram-shop-product-photo-checker) · [Product photo checker](https://herofab.app/tools/product-photo-checker)

## TikTok Shop main images, answered.

**What background does TikTok Shop require for the main image?**

Pure white background (RGB 255, 255, 255). The checker reads the background from the edges of the photo and reports its exact RGB value.

**Does TikTok Shop require square images?**

Square image, width equal to height. The checker compares the width and height in pixels.

**Where do these figures come from?**

From TikTok Shop Academy (US) — Product listing policy, read on 10 October 2026. Marketplaces update their rules; the [official page](https://seller-us.tiktok.com/university/essay?knowledge_id=3196690250417921) is the final reference.

**Is my image uploaded?**

No. The file is read and processed inside your browser; nothing is sent to a server.