Australian Agents: Domain Listing Image Sizes Ready in 18–48 Hours
Export hero and gallery photos at roughly 3000×2000 px, and use either a 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio depending on the shot. Keep every important feature inside the center 80 to 90% of the frame because Domain crops for thumbnails and search tiles will clip anything sitting too close to the edges. Logos and banners follow separate, exact pixel specs. The checklist below covers the rest.
TL;DR:
Export all listing images at around 3000×2000 px in JPEG format, compressed under 2 MB, to ensure sharpness after Domain resizing.
Keep important features within the center 80 to 90% of the frame to prevent cropping of key elements on thumbnails and search tiles.
Use exact pixel dimensions for logos and banners, such as 360×126 px for logos and 320×40 px for small banners, to avoid pixelation.
Recognize that different display contexts crop images differently, with search thumbnails cropping tighter than listing pages or app tiles.
Incorporate Domain-specific formatting, including sizing, color profile (sRGB), and safe zones, into the production workflow to save time and improve quality.
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Domain Listing Image Sizes and Recommended Minimums
Domain doesn’t publish one universal pixel chart for every photo type, but the guidance from the wider realestate.com.au network gives agents a reliable baseline to work from. realestate.com.au’s own developer resources recommend JPG or PNG images at a minimum of 2000×1500 px for a 4:3 crop, and at least 3000×1688 px for a 16:9 landscape crop. Treat those as floors, not targets. Portal compression softens detail on the way in, so exporting closer to 3000×2000 px gives the image enough headroom to still look sharp after Domain resizes it for search tiles, hero banners, and app thumbnails.
Gallery and thumbnail images can technically go smaller, but there’s no upside to cutting corners here. If you’re photographing a full listing set, export every image at the same high-resolution baseline and let Domain scale down as needed, rather than second-guessing which photos will end up as thumbnails.
Logos and banners are a different story entirely, and Domain is explicit about the numbers. According to Domain’s own help documentation, Project Logo assets need to be 360×126 px, small banners 320×40 px, medium banners 720×50 px, and large banners 1010×90 px (note that the large banner size is no longer displayed on the platform, though the spec remains listed). These aren’t suggestions. Off-spec logo or banner files are one of the most common reasons agency branding looks stretched or pixelated on a project page.
File size matters just as much as pixel dimensions. Very large exports can fail to upload or time out on a mobile connection at an open home. A practical target:
Hero and gallery photos: export at ~3000×2000 px (4:3) or ~3000×1688 px (16:9), compressed to under 2 MB per file
Gallery thumbnails: same source file as the hero set, no separate low-res export needed
Project logo: exactly 360×126 px, PNG if transparency is required
Banners: 320×40 px, 720×50 px, or 1010×90 px depending on placement, matched exactly to spec
If you’re also running Domain display advertising, note that ad units like the Rotating Cube carry their own constraints, including a Medium Rectangle at 300×250 px and a Half Page at 300×600 px, both capped around 150 KB. Those specs sit outside standard listing photos, but they trip up agents who assume every Domain asset follows the same rule.
How Domain Displays and Crops Your Photos
The same image file behaves differently depending on where it lands. Search-results thumbnails compress your hero shot into a small tile, usually cropping tighter than the listing detail page does. The listing detail hero display gets more breathing room, showing more of your original frame. In-app thumbnails on phones are the tightest crop of all, often shaving off the edges of a wide shot to fit a near-square tile.
This is why a photo that looks perfectly composed on the full listing page can suddenly lose its hero feature, a fireplace, a view, a pool, once it’s squeezed into a search thumbnail. Domain’s cropping generally centers in the middle of the frame rather than intelligently detecting the subject, and vertical crops behave more aggressively than horizontal ones because there’s less width to work with.
Domain listing pages also retain photo history. Property profiles can display previously uploaded images alongside a new listing’s photo set, and each image shows the month and year it was added. Fresh, well-composed photography stands out clearly against older uploads, particularly on properties that have been listed more than once.
Search thumbnails: tightest crop, center weighted
Listing hero: most generous crop, closest to your original composition
App thumbnails: near-square, cuts the most off the sides
Pro Tip: Frame your hero shot as if the outer 10 to 15% of the image doesn’t exist. If the shot still works without that margin, it will survive every crop Domain throws at it.
File Formats, Color Profiles, and Upload Troubleshooting
Export listing photos as JPG at 80 to 90% quality, converted to sRGB. That combination keeps files sharp and color accurate without ballooning file size. Reserve PNG for logos or graphics that genuinely need a transparent background, since PNG files run much larger for photographic content and offer no visual benefit on a standard property shot.
A few habits solve most upload problems before they start:
Export in sRGB, not Adobe RGB. Domain’s display pipeline doesn’t account for wider color profiles, and skipping this step causes reds and greens to look slightly off once uploaded.
Use progressive JPG encoding where your editing software supports it. It loads more smoothly on mobile data without changing the visual quality.
Strip bulky EXIF metadata if a file is hovering near the size limit. Camera metadata rarely needs to travel with the final export.
If an upload fails, check file size first, then pixel dimensions. Most rejections trace back to a single oversized file in an otherwise fine batch.
Batch export the full shoot at one consistent preset. Re-exporting one-off photos at different settings is how inconsistent-looking galleries happen.
Composition and Photographer Tips That Survive Cropping
Getting the pixel dimensions right only pays off if the photo underneath is composed to survive Domain’s cropping behavior. Domain’s own editorial advice leans on a few consistent principles: declutter every room before shooting, prioritize natural light over flash, and compose to show how spaces connect to each other rather than isolating single features.
A mild wide-angle lens shows scale without the warping and stretched-corner distortion of an ultra-wide. Extreme wide-angle shots tend to make rooms look bigger in a way that disappoints buyers at the actual walkthrough, and the distortion gets worse once the image is cropped for a thumbnail.
Lifestyle photography, a styled table setting, a pet on the porch, works well when used sparingly, but keep the actual property feature in the frame’s safe zone. A gorgeous shot of a dog on a lawn is wasted if the crop cuts off the yard itself.
Lead with a composed, well-lit hero exterior or entry shot
Follow with key interior spaces in a logical walkthrough order: living, kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms
Add lifestyle or feature shots (outdoor entertaining, view, pool) after the core rooms
Close the gallery with floor plans and any remaining supporting shots
Pro Tip: Shoot every hero candidate slightly wider than you think you need. It’s far easier to crop in during editing than to discover in the upload preview that Domain has clipped your feature wall.
Where Blistr Fits Into a Domain-Ready Export Workflow
Getting every photo, logo, and banner sized to spec is straightforward in theory and time-consuming in practice, especially across a busy listing pipeline. A production workflow can build the export step into the capture itself. Property images can come out already formatted for portal upload, sRGB-converted, and cropped with Domain’s safe zones in mind, alongside 2D and 3D floor plans and other campaign assets, delivered within a short turnaround from a single property capture.
Agents lose real hours per listing re-exporting the same shoot into five different pixel dimensions. Building those formats into production once removes that step entirely.
Why Most Agents Get Domain Image Specs Half Right
Most of the advice circulating about listing photos focuses entirely on composition, natural light, decluttering, the right time of day, and skips the export math almost completely. That’s backwards. A beautifully composed photo that gets crushed to 1200×900 px or cropped into oblivion in a search thumbnail does the property no favors, no matter how good the lighting was.
The conventional wisdom also treats Domain and other portals as interchangeable, as if one export preset covers every platform. It doesn’t. Domain’s logo and banner specs are exact pixel measurements, not suggestions, and treating them like a rough guideline is how agency branding ends up stretched on project pages.
If you take one thing from this, prioritize the export settings before the artistic choices. A technically correct 3000×2000 px file with decent composition will outperform a stunning shot exported at the wrong dimensions, because the stunning shot never survives the crop intact. Get the technical baseline right first, then spend your creative energy on light, framing, and sequence.
— Pierce
Get Domain-Ready Listing Photos Without the Export Headache
This approach offers an alternative to hiring a separate photographer, editor, and marketing coordinator for every listing. One capture can produce a full set of Domain-formatted images, floor plans, and campaign assets, already sized and color corrected, without agents manually resizing files.
A typical package includes a formatted photo gallery sized for portal upload, 2D and/or 3D floor plans, and supporting campaign assets built from the same shoot. Turnaround runs 18 to 48 hours from capture to delivery. Agents selling a property can book the Sales Package for 699 AUD one off, while rental listings are covered under the Rentals Package for 249 AUD one off. Agents who want the full breakdown of what’s included can review the Blistr Collateral Package before booking.
Ready to skip the manual export step on your next listing? Book a Blistr session for 750 AUD one off and get a full, Domain-ready asset set delivered within days, not weeks.
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FAQ
What is the recommended image size for realestate.com.au and Domain listings?
Export photos at a minimum of 2000×1500 px for a 4:3 crop, or 3000×1688 px for 16:9, though aiming for roughly 3000×2000 px gives better results after portal compression. Logos and banners follow separate exact specs published by Domain.
What pixel size should Domain logos and banners be?
Domain requires Project Logo files at 360×126 px, small banners at 320×40 px, medium banners at 720×50 px, and large banners at 1010×90 px. These are exact requirements, not flexible minimums.
What aspect ratio works best for real estate photos on Domain?
4:3 and 16:9 are the two safe aspect ratios for Domain and the broader realestate.com.au network. Both crop reasonably well across search thumbnails, listing hero images, and in-app displays as long as key features sit away from the frame’s edges.
Why do my listing photos look cropped differently across search results, the listing page, and the app?
Domain applies different crop ratios depending on where the image displays, tighter on search thumbnails and in-app tiles, more generous on the full listing hero. Composing with the center 80 to 90% of the frame as your safe zone prevents important features from being clipped.
Can Blistr handle Domain-specific image formatting for me?
Yes. Blistr delivers listing photos, floor plans, and campaign assets already formatted for Domain upload, including sRGB conversion and crop-safe framing, typically within 18 to 48 hours. Current pricing for packages is listed on the Blistr pricing page.
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