Shopify Makes Images Look TERRIBLE

Topic summary

A user is experiencing severe image quality degradation on Shopify, specifically affecting dark-colored shirt variants (black, navy). The issue persists across multiple image dimensions:

Attempted Solutions:

  • 1080 x 1080 pixels - resulted in pixelation
  • 2024 x 2024 pixels - still pixelated

The compression appears particularly damaging to darker colors, making product images look unprofessional.

Suggested Fix:
Another user recommends properly optimizing the image source or using fixed-width images to resolve the compression issues.

Status: The problem remains unresolved, with the original poster seeking guidance on proper image specifications to prevent Shopify’s automatic compression from degrading image quality.

Summarized with AI on November 5. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

Hey, Shopify is automatically damaging my dark color shirt variants (black, navy etc)

I tried 1080 x 1080 - pixelated

I tried 2024 x 2024 - pixelated

What are you doing there guys? You can see here how terrible it is (black color) , it looks like total crap!

https://store.integraudio.com/products/compressorry-t-shirt?variant=49662941528399

Hello @sonify199 ,
Image source needs to be properly optimize or remove it and get fix width image, could you show code of it.