How do I disable zoom feature on a listing?

[sharondisneyfan1991]

Hello,  Can the zoom feature be disable for a particular listing?  If so, how do I do that?  Is there a fee to disable this feature?  Thank you.

[a*river*runs*through*it]

Why would you want to disable it?

Are you trying to hide something?

[sharondisneyfan1991]

NO....I am not trying to hide anything!   I am a  cross stitcher and I sell cross stitch patterns.  Some patterns are very simple and if you are an fairly experienced cross stitcher, you can zoom in on the picture and create the pattern yourself by looking and counting the stitches for each color, row, etc.  

I am trying to protect patterns from copying.

So, again, is there a way to stop the zoom?  I noticed on other listings I have looked at the zoom feature is off.

[dollybeauty · Accepted solution]

@sharondisneyfan1991

The zoom featyure is automatic for all images that are at least 800 pixels on the longest side.

To disable, create an image less than 800 pixels on the longest side.

[zzydny]

The patterns that you are selling are printed pages which appear to be from magazines or books.  While you can certainly sell that stuff, it isn't your intellectual property so it's not like someone is taking the patterns from you personally.  If the patterns were your own original work, I could certainly see why you would (and should) be worried about someone pirating the pattern.  But, as it is, the only thing you could reasonably do is to change the pictures in your listing to obscure part of the item.