AI Mercado Livre Product Photos

Mercado Livre is strict about the first photo of a listing, the foto de capa that buyers see in search. Its seller help asks for a completely white background created digitally with a photo editor, the product centered and filling about 95% of a square image, and nothing added on top: no logo, no text, no border, no QR code, no contact details and no watermark. Angles, context and packaging belong from the second photo onward. In some Moda and Casa e Móveis categories, a background in context is allowed on the cover too.

Size matters as well. Mercado Livre recommends 1,200 x 1,200 pixels so buyers can zoom, accepts JPG, JPEG and PNG files up to 10 MB, keeps images at no more than 1,920 x 1,920 and needs at least 500 pixels. Covers that miss the rules are moderated and lose exposure in the listings, and the platform’s image diagnostics look for four problems: a background that is not white, a size under the minimum, text or logos, and watermarks. Last checked October 2026; rules can differ by category, so check yours when you list.

Mage handles each part of that job. You keep your own product photo, which Mercado Livre requires you to own or have permission to use, and replace everything behind it with pure white. Then you generate the rest of the gallery: the product on a São Paulo kitchen counter, in a beach bag in Florianópolis, open in its box, seen from the side. Image Enhancer rescues small or old photos, and a short product video comes from the same images.

Read the cover rules as a checklist, because Mercado Livre moderates covers that miss them. Background: completely white, created digitally. Almost white is an easy miss with generated images, so open the result in any editor and check that a corner reads 255, 255, 255. Framing: square, the product centered and filling about 95% of the image, neither cut off nor touching the borders. One product: show only the item for sale, not several together; other colors and models go in variations, each with its own photos.

What to leave off: Mercado Livre’s own labels such as "Mais vendido", "Full", "MercadoLíder" or "Oferta relâmpago", which only the platform can assign; your company logo; purchase or delivery instructions; QR codes; borders; phone numbers, emails and social handles; and any watermark, even a faint one. The help page treats all of these as extra elements to avoid, so put your selling points in the title, the attributes and the description instead of on the image.

One prompt that does all of this in a single pass: "Keep the product exactly as in the photo. Replace the background with pure white, no gradient, no floor line. Center the product and scale it to fill about 95% of a square frame without touching the edges. Soft, even light, no text." Run it on Mango 3, or read the AI background changer guide for other ways to word it. If a patch of the background comes out grey, paint over just that patch with Inpaint, or use the editor Mercado Livre offers on desktop: the pencil on the photo in your listing.

• Check a corner pixel: it should read pure white, 255, 255, 255.
• Square frame, product at about 95%, nothing touching the edges.
• One product per photo; colors and models go in variations.
• No logo, text, badge, QR code, border or contact details.
• Fashion and home sellers: check whether your category allows context on the cover.

From the second photo, Mercado Livre asks you to show the product from different angles, in context and with its packaging. This is where generated scenes pay off. A buyer understands a thermal bottle faster next to a beach chair in Ubatuba than on white, and a frying pan on a stovetop with a pot of feijão beside it reads as the real thing. Keep the settings local and believable: tiled kitchens, apartment balconies, a churrasqueira in the backyard, a home office in a São Paulo apartment.

Order the gallery the way buyers ask questions: the cover, then the product in use, then the view the cover cannot show (back, side, sole, inside), then a close-up of the material or finish, then the packaging and everything in the box. The Angles app regenerates the same product from a new camera position, so the side and back views match the cover.

For clothing, put the piece on a saved character with Outfit Swap and keep the same model across the whole store. For furniture and decor, save your best living room as a location in References and mention it by @handle, so every product appears in the same home.

Black Friday in November is one of the busiest weeks of the Brazilian online year, and the gallery should be ready before the traffic arrives, not during it. Refresh the photos after the cover with seasonal scenes: a gift table for Natal, flowers and breakfast for Dia das Mães in May, a dinner for two for Dia dos Namorados on 12 June, and summer beach days from December. The cover stays on white all year. The season goes in the scenes, never as a sticker on the cover.

Because a generated scene costs seconds, try three for each date and keep the one that fits your product. Draft them on Mango 3 Turbo, then run the keeper on Mango 3 or Guava 2 Pro at 2K.

Then turn the best scene into motion. A short clip of the product in use helps on the listing and in ads, and the AI product video generator guide shows how to make one from the same images.

Mercado Livre recommends 1,200 x 1,200 pixels and adds a zoom when an image is wider than 800 pixels. It scales anything above 1,920 x 1,920 down and never enlarges a small image. Generate covers at 2K rather than 1K, which clears the recommendation with room to spare, and let the platform scale the file to its own sizes.

If your only photo is small, such as an old phone shot or a frame from a video, run it through Image Enhancer at 2K before you use it as the reference. A sharper input gives the background edit cleaner edges, and the cover holds up when a buyer zooms into stitching, texture or a model number.

Keep each file under 10 MB: a 6K upscale is far more than Mercado Livre keeps, so save 4K and 6K for print and your own store. Working in Claude or another AI assistant? The Product Photoshoot skill shoots a set of modes from one phone photo, and the Marketplace Listing Images skill builds a main image and secondary images. That skill ships Amazon, Walmart, Etsy, eBay and Shopify rules, not Mercado Livre’s, so paste the checklist above into your request. Both are on the Mage skills page.