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Sign up and start selling your photos with us in just minutes!

How does it work?

All you have to do is sign up and upload your photos. We handle the rest.  Sign up using the Photographers sign-up link.

We handle all of the sales & postage. You pay nothing.

1. Take your photos. See the outline of requirements below.

2. If the subject shows an interest in making a purchase give them this website address & a search term for their photo.  For example, you may want to add the date, place, and/or your name as a search word to the photo.  Tell your subject this in advance and they will be able to use the search facility on this website to find their image.

3.  Upload your photos.   Please do not upload multiple copies that are similar.  You choose the best one.  Do not use this website for your storage.  Only upload the images you believe are likely to sell.

4.  We will approve/disapprove the images for inclusion onto the website.  We are only likely to disapprove images if they are of too low quality (unless you specifically let us know that your client will be making a purchase), or if the subject matter is not acceptable for family viewing.

5.  Your client will visit the website, find their photo and choose to purchase prints or products or both.

6.  We process all orders, take care of the postage, and ensure that the customer receives their purchase.  All prints & products are manufactured by third party professionals.

7.  You receive your commission payout.

How much does it cost?

This is going to be one of the few times in your life when you discover that you are being offered something completely free!  No catches!   Signing up and uploading your photos is completely free.

If you want to promote yourself a little more professional, you may wish to purchase business cards with your name and this website address printed on them.  For example, our cards read:

Eye For Detail Photography
www.EyeForDetailPhotography.co.uk
Your image will be online within 48 hours

This tells the person we hand our card to everything they need to know.

Do you pay me for my photos?

We pay you 50% commission of the profit of every print or product sold with your photo.

How do we work out the commission? ...

The profit will be calculated in the following way:
Price print/product sold for minus
Cost of merchant fees (PayPal, which enables us to take credit/debit cards) minus
Cost of print/product production minus
Cost of postage & packing equals
Profit.  Your commission is 50% of this profit.

(Your account will show THE sale price, but only an APPROXIMATE profit.  This is because your account software only shows a percentage of the sale price, which as explained above, is not how your commission is calculated).

When do I get paid?

Your profit from the sales of your photos is paid to you once a month. If you would like your commission payment made sooner please make a request by email.  We shall make payments to your PayPal account.

Do I have to be a professional photographer?

Hey, do not sell yourself short!  This is what you need to achieve ...

A photo that is good enough quality to print or apply to a product.
A photo that is nice enough that your client wants to buy it.

Can I set up my own categories?

We can do this for you.  Let us know by email what categories you want and we can set them up for you.  If you would like to upload photos that are private, for example if your client does not want them made available to the public, let us know and we can set up password protected categories.  Of course we do this for free!

Please read the following BEFORE submitting any images

Outline of Requirements

• In order to save precious time, please VIEW your images at 100%and make the necessary corrections before submitting. When viewed at 100% images should be just as clear and crisp (with no noise, blurriness or graininess), as when viewed as a small size!

• We accept only JPG images. Maximum size of 1.5 Mb please. See How to resize your images (below).

• Images should be in the 6 x 4 ratio. Do not crop images to a different ratio.

• All images must be taken or created by you personally in order to ensure that you have legal ownership rights of the image

• Try to compose shots to feature your subject.

• Good colour, not washed out.

• Good light levels, white should be pure white and black should be black.

• Photos which you think your client would like to buy.

• Please do NOT upload images that are lifeless, boring, mundane, snapshot-quality, dark underexposed or images with hard flash shadows, images where the main subject is cut off abruptly, badly focused, blurry or overly grainy images, images with no particular subject, etc. Exceptions will be made if your client has specifically stated that they will make a purchase.

• You cannot upload a retouched image that originated from another source.

• No nudity or sexual images of any kind, we would like this website to be viewable by the whole family.

• Images of vehicles should have the registration mark blurred out.

• Please do not feel offended if we reject some of your images, this is not our intention, but it is to both parties interest to offer our customers high quality images so they come back and buy more, this being to both benefit.

As this is a photo site for every one's needs, please make sure that whatever image you upload, it is nice, it pops! Ensure you are uploading an image that YOU would buy to decorate your walls with or buy as a gift.  Remember, your photographs will represent your ability as a photographer!

If the photo is beautiful, your client, or maybe someone else, will buy it!

We reserve the right to refuse any image.

Please ensure you retain a copy of your images.  We cannot be held responsible for the loss of any images, should a failure of the server occur.

How to resize your images

If you know how to reduce the file size of your images that is fine, please do so. Ensure files are a maximum size of 1.5 Mb.

If you would like to know how to reduce the file size of your images here are the instructions, including the link to a free program to automatically do it for you. Once the program is installed on your computer reducing the size of your images will be amazingly easy.

To download the image sizer program:

1. Follow this link

http://www.mediafire.com/imagesizer

2. You will see 'PhotoResizer.zip' Click on it, and then

3. click on 'Click here to start download'.

4. A pop up box will appear with a choice of open with or save file (WinRAR.ZIP) Choose 'save file', then click 'OK'.

The file will download to your computer (you may find the file on your desktop, or in your downloads folder. (To specify your download directory search on Google specify download directory (followed by your internet browser name, for example, internet explorer, firefox etc).

5. Find the zip file on your computer.

6. Right Click and then click extract to PhotoResizer. The files will be extracted to a folder called PhotoResizer. You'll see the folder in the same place the zip file is.

7. Inside the folder you will find the magnifying glass icon. Right click this icon, choose 'send to' then choose 'desktop (as shortcut)'.

The program is now installed and ready to use.

To create a copy of your image to the new max 1.5 Mb size

Do not double click or open the magnifying glass icon. This is not the correct method. The program works by simply dragging the images over the magnifying glass icon.

1. Open the folder that contains any images you wish to size. Highlight the images you wish to size and drag them over the magnifying glass shortcut icon that you will find on your desktop.

2. A black box will pop up. Nothing exciting happens whilst the images are being sized. The black processing box will close when it has finished. The box that pops up just shows a flashing cursor, this is normal, whilst the box is open your image is being sized.

All done!

3. You will find your resized images (a COPY) of the originals, in the same folder. They will be named the same with the suffix -k1500.

4. Your images are now the correct size and ready for upload onto our website.

The images will be sized to be below 1.5 Mb.
Any images that are smaller will NOT be enlarged.
*Tip Try resizing only one image at a time so you can see how the program works, it takes a few seconds to resize an image and the black box doesn't appear to be doing anything, but it is!

Warning!

1. Do not double click or open the magnifying glass icon. This is not how the program works.

2. If you drag your images over the shortcut icon but the black box doesn't pop up it can be for one of the follwoing reasons: (a). Your image is smaller than 1.5 Mb and does not need sizing. (b). You missed the magnifying glass icon! Look right next to the icon and you'll find your photo! Put it back where it should be (cut, then paste) and start again. Ensure the name of the shortcut icon is highlighted before you drop the images onto it. (c). Your images are in too many folders. This is a bug in the program. This problem can be avoided by either not placing your photos in too many folders, for example a directory C:\Documents and Settings\michelle\snaps would be fine but a directory C:\Documents and Settings\michelle\london festival\marching band\wind section\snaps would be too long. If you directory is too long you could drag the whole folder over the icon, this should then get around the problem and the program will resize all of the images in the whole folder.

3. Do not rename the PhotoSizer icon.

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Only read the following if you want to make your own image sizer.

The program you will download is set up and ready to use. You do not need to make any changes, however, for your convenience, if you would like to make your own image sizer or adjust the settings then please see the website link below for instructions.

If the images are for upload onto our website please ensure they do not exceed 1500 kb. This can be achieved by choosing 'Resizing Method' 'File Size (kilobytes)' and inserting the value '1500'. Failure to do so can cause problems with uploading.

It is recommended that you choose 'compression quality Custom' and enter the value '100'.