How to take photos of products to sell on a website

[Kartikp]

I would like to start selling products on a website and need advice from you experts on how to take and manage photos.

The website will have thumbnails and a larger photo when you click on the thumbnail.

We have a small digital camera (Canon Ixus 60) and intend to use that with a light box to take the pictures.

The catalogue of prodcuts will be quite large. Therefore, I don't really want to have to manually crop, touch up or resize thousands of photos.

Would it be sensible to take the photos at the highest possible resolution on the camera to keep as a master copy and then use some a batch resizing function to resize for thumbnails?

Any advice would be much appreciated as I'm new to all this!

[Fozzybear]

IrfanView has a batch resizing tool that seems to work quite well.

I'd certainly be inclined to keep copies of the high-res originals, although if space is an issue then you probably wouldn't need images larger than a typical screen size - 1600x1200 would probably be more than large enough for shop use!

[Kartikp]

Thanks, I'll take a look at IrfanView.

Can anyone recommend ideal thumbnail sizes that would resize well from 1600x1200?