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Do you need to hide your identity?

If you think that the publication of your works could cause a risk to your safety, you can ask to use a pseudonym and to delete all references to your real name and place of residence.
To make this request, contact us using the secure contact form.

The “Author Account Activity Policy” is part of the “External Contributors/Author Policy”.

You can find here the complete “External Contributors/Author Policy”.

Create here your Contributor/Author Account and start submit your world.

Please use this form to change, update or replace biography, profile image, website url and social media.

To publish your photo essays or news on privatephotoreview.com, you must first create your account (if you don’t already have it), then you well be able to access the submission form.

Follow these steps to submit a request to close your PRIVATEphotoreview Account and delete your personal information:

1. Go to Delete Account.
2. Sign into the account you want to close.
3. Review the “Quick reminder about Your Account”.
4. If you still wish to proceed, check “DELETE my Account”. To complete the closure, click on “Delete account” button

Please note that account deletion is final, and we cannot recover an account deleted.

→ To keep your account active, please follow the instructions in the External Contributors and Author Policy 

“ The Author Account has Active status if the user makes at least one submission every 3 months.”
“An account that is inactive for more than 6 consecutive months may be permanently deleted at any time.”

Author Account requests are subject to verification process. This verification process can take 24 to 48 hours.

If your Author Account request passes the verification process, it will be enabled and you will receive an email notification.

How does PRIVATE Photo Review determine inactivity?

• Inactive account is an account that was not used to submit new content for at least 3 months.

→ Please find here our full External Contributors / Author Policy.

To reset your account password

1) click on the Login icon located in the top main menu

2) click on Forget!

3) then enter your account email address and click on “Reset password”

A password reset email has been sent to the email address on file for your account, but may take several minutes to show up in your inbox. Please wait at least 10 minutes before attempting another reset.

It is important to check your spam or junk folder if you are not receiving the password reset email. To prevent this, you can add our email address to your safe sender list and mark the emails as “Not Spam”.

The Author Page is where you can show off / promote your work and share information about yourself. On this page you can include a photo of yourself, a bio and… your contents.

Setting up Your Author Page

Your Headshot
First things first—like with any profile—the thing that viewers notice first is your profile picture or headshot.
When considering your headshot, you want to keep it classy but not boring.
And with all headshots, you want it to look professional. A clean, high-quality photo is what you want. No one wants a grainy pixelated photo to represent their brand!

Your Bio
This will be the next most important thing a viewer will see. An author’s bio is the foundation to get their work out there. It’s as much for you as it is for your readers.

Your contents
Then there’s your content that shows what you can do.

Do you want to be known for your unique work? Crafting a good Author Page is one of the essential steps!

⇢ Go here to edit/change your profile picture, biography, and social media.

Yes, of course.
Go to the Submit form, select the ‘News section’, choose the appropriate News Category and then fill in the form and submit. Done 🙂

Please use this form to change a Tag Description.

Please use this form to request deletion or modification of your contents (post)

No, in the submission form you will find the text fields where you can insert captions.

We do not provide editorial correction services, but we read the texts and if we find errors we try to fix them.

To publish your photo essays or news on privatephotoreview.com, you must first create your account (if you don’t already have it), then you well be able to access the submission form.

You can use ‘Merge tags’ to customise the layout of your Story.

• Merge tag {PHnumber} (like: {PH1})

How use Merge tag {PH}?

In this example, you can see how to position the photos (six in this case) within the text of a Story:

In case of non-compliance with our “Images, photos guidelines”, your submission will not be considered 😳

• Optimize images before submit
  • visit our FAQ Page for Help!
• File requirements
  • File type:jpg format (Web Optimized).
  • File size: Max 2 MB size. Width: min 1200, max 2000 pixels. Height: min 1200, max 2000 pixels.
• Photo Non-Commercial
  • We do not allow photos which contain logos, promotional material, or any other content intended for commercial purposes.
• We only accept clean photographs, with no overlapping lettering, logos or watermark.

The limit of images that can be included in a single post of the Photo Essays category, is 10 😳.
You must therefore divide your work into 2 separate Photo Essays of 10 photos each, taking care not to use the same Title or Body text in the 2 photo essays. Remember to conclude the Body text of the first photo essay indicating that it is the first part of your work and that the second part will be published later.

If the photos you submit do not meet the requirements here, your submission will be deleted!

• Please submit only full-bleed image (shadowless).

A full-bleed image extends from one edge of your browser window to the other, spanning the width of the site. This creates an expansive feel and puts the focus on imagery.

• Photo size recommended

Width: min 1200, max 2000 pixels. Height: min 1200, max 2000 pixels.

«Save images for web» BEFORE uploading them.
In general, a file (photo) that respects the Image size recommended and is correctly optimized and Save for Web, does not exceed the size of 2 MB.
The total size of the files sent via the “submission form” must not exceed 20 MB.
If the total size of the files you are trying to send exceeds 20 MB, the sending will fail and will be aborted.

Caesium.
Caesium (compress, resize) is a free software developed for simplicity and effectiveness.
Caesium is one of the most popular image optimization software available helping photographers, bloggers, webmasters, businesses or casual users at storing, sending and sharing digital pictures.

Photoshop or Affinity Photo: Save for Web.
The “Save for Web” tool is a simple and easy way to prepare your JPEG files for the web, helping with the trade-off between file size and image quality (Preset JPG Medium).

Free online services.
If you don’t have photo editing software, you can search free online services for image compression and resizing, like this:

• ImageResizer (Resize, Crop, Compress)
• Caesium.app (compress)
• Tinyjpg.com (compress)
• CompressJpeg (compress)
• Jpeg-Optimize (compress, resize)

If you’re having trouble resizing and optimizing files, contact us and we’ll help.

This is the procedure:

• Go to the “Submit” and choose on “Advertise Your Products“
• Fill out the form now and submit it.

That’s all! Within 24/48 hours your news will be published online.

How to write compelling captions?

Provide some context or background to the reader so he or she can understand the news value of the photograph.

A basic photo captions should:

• Clearly identify the people and locations that appear in the photo.
• Include the date the photograph was taken.
• Provide some context or background to the reader so he or she can understand the news value of the photograph.

Be brief. Most captions are one or two short, declarative sentences.