Amazon Main Product Image

photography

A real photograph

The main image must be a professional photograph of the actual product — not a drawing, render or mock-up.

Required

Real photo

Severity: hard fail — the image is rejected

How we measure it

An AI vision model (Claude) looks at a reduced copy of your image and answers two fixed questions: is anything in the frame besides the product, and is it a real photograph. It can mark the rule as passed or ask you to check it yourself — it never fails an image on its own.

vision_review

Source

Amazon Seller Central: Product image guide
Rule version
v1
Effective since
2026-09-25
Last verified
2025-01-01

When the platform changes this requirement we publish a new version. Past verdicts keep pointing at the version they were checked against.