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Create a listing

2 min read · Updated 2026-10-27

Say you have just finished a painting or drawing and would love to sell it. This is how to turn it into a listing, from a phone or a computer.

What you need

  • Good photos. Shoot in daylight, straight on, filling the frame. Add a close-up that shows texture and a shot of the back or signature. Up to 12 photos, JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 25 MB each.
  • A creative title and description. Say what it is, how you made it and what inspired it.
  • A shop and a shipping profile. See Open your shop.

Steps

  1. Go to Sell (on a phone) or Studio (on a computer) and press New listing.
  2. Under Photos, press Add photo. On a phone you can take the picture right there. You can also drag photos in or paste them. The first photo is the cover; press the star on another photo to make it the cover.
  3. Wait a moment while each photo is processed. ChainChum makes sharp, fast-loading versions, removes hidden location data and checks that the image is not AI-generated.
  4. Fill in the details:
    • Title and Description.
    • What is it? A one-of-a-kind original, a numbered edition (prints), handmade goods with stock or a digital download.
    • Category, Medium (for example acrylic on canvas) and Year.
    • Size in centimetres. Buyers also see inches.
    • Tags, separated by commas: subjects, colours, styles, the room it would suit.
  5. Set a Price and pick a Shipping profile. See Publish and pricing.

Selling a digital download

Choose a digital download under What is it?. Shipping and size go away, and two things appear:

  • Files the buyer downloads: add the file itself (ZIP, PDF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WebP or MP3, up to 100 MB each, 10 files at most). Files are private and nobody sees them before paying. You need at least one to publish.
  • Licence: Personal use (print, frame, wallpaper) or Commercial use (also in projects the buyer sells, but never reselling the file itself).

Your photos become the previews. On the listing they carry a light "ChainChum preview" mark so they can't be passed off as the file.

Everything saves automatically as you type; you will see Saving… and then Saved. You can leave and come back to a draft from Studio at any time.

The listing assistant

When it is switched on for your account, Suggest from photos drafts a title, description and tags from your photos in your own voice. It never changes your images and never publishes anything: you read the suggestion and press Use this only if you like it.

Selling family art?

Tick This is family art and choose the age bracket of the young artist. Never include your child's name, face or birth date. Read Family art and safety first.

Next step

Publish and pricing.