How to download Shopify product images at full resolution
Shopify serves you a resized copy. The original is one URL rewrite away — here is how to get it.
Why you keep getting small images
Shopify stores the original upload, then serves derivatives through its CDN by appending a size suffix to the filename. Right-clicking a product photo gives you whatever size the theme requested, not the file the merchant uploaded:
| URL you get by right-clicking | What it is |
|---|---|
shoe_400x400.jpg | 400px thumbnail |
shoe_grande.jpg | 600px |
shoe_1024x1024@2x.jpg | 2048px retina variant |
shoe.jpg | the original upload |
Strip the suffix and you get the full-size original. SnapSave does this automatically, and confirms the bigger file actually exists before saving it — so you never end up with a broken download when a merchant uploaded a small image in the first place.
Step by step
- Open the product page (or a collection page for the whole catalogue).
- Open SnapSave with
Alt+Shift+S. - Check that Find full-resolution originals is on in Settings. It is on by default.
- Press Deep scan — collection pages lazy-load as you scroll.
- Set minimum width to
600to filter out badges, icons and payment logos. - Look for the HI-RES badge: that image has a larger original waiting.
- Select all, then ZIP.
Deep scan, full-resolution originals and ZIP are SnapSave Pro features — a one-time $19 purchase. Finding and saving images one at a time is free and unlimited.
With per-site subfolders on, everything lands in
Downloads/SnapSave/thestore.com/.
Doing a whole catalogue
Collection pages paginate. Run a deep scan on each page rather than trying
to force one giant scan — it is faster and the ZIP stays a manageable size.
Most themes also expose /collections/all, which lists every
product in one place.
Before you use these commercially
Product photography is the merchant's copyright, and on most dropshipping supplier sites the images are licensed to that supplier rather than to you. Competitor research, price comparison and building a reference board are normal uses. Republishing another store's photos on your own listings is a copyright problem and, on most platforms, grounds for takedown. If you are sourcing, ask the supplier for a media pack — most have one.
Frequently asked
- How do I remove the _400x from a Shopify image URL?
- Delete the underscore and size suffix before the file extension: shoe_400x400.jpg becomes shoe.jpg. That is the original upload. SnapSave applies this rewrite automatically and verifies the result loads.
- Can I download all images from a Shopify collection at once?
- Yes. Open the collection page, run a deep scan so the lazy-loaded grid fully loads, then select all and download as a ZIP. Repeat per pagination page.
- Does this work on other e-commerce platforms?
- The same approach works on WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Squarespace and Amazon, each of which uses its own thumbnail URL pattern. SnapSave recognises the common ones.