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Contributor/Author Account
To publish your photo essays or news on privatephotoreview, you must first create your account (if you don’t already have it), then you well be able to access the submission forms.
Log into your Author Account and take one of the following actions:
• Submit a content. You can choose between showcase your work or promote your products and services.
• Support us, make a donation. This will help support the costs of running the site and allow us to extend the Active status for your Author Account, while keeping all your world online.
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.
To reset your account password, go to this page, then enter your account email address, and click “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.
Submission
Yes of course, you can submit a news to promote and advertise your photo exhibition.
Please use this form to submit News.
(We accept news submission about Event, International Photo Festival, International Photography Awards, Crowdfunding project, Photo Book, Photo exhibition, Workshop.)
We do not provide editorial correction services, but we read the texts and if we find errors we try to correct them.
The Thorough File Naming Convention for Contributors
- The initials of the Author Name (First name Last name)
For example, Vivian Maier would have VM initials.
VM - Write dates back to front.
State the date ‘back to front’, and use four-digit years, two-digit months, and two-digit days: YYYYMMDD or YYYYMM or YYYY or YYYY-YYYY.
2022-09-26 - Finally, you need to number your photos. Use two digits at the end of their filename.
01
The file names would look like:
VM-2022-09-26-01.jpg
VM-2022-09-26-02.jpg
VM-2022-08-21-01.jpg
VM-2022-08-21-02.jpg
Find here the incredible story of Vivian Maier.
To publish your photo essays or news on privatephotoreview, you must first create your account (if you don’t already have it), then you well be able to access the submission forms.
In case of non-compliance with our “Images, photos guidelines”, your submission will not be considered 😳
- Optimize images before submit
- File requirements
- File type:jpg format (Web Optimized).
- File size: Max 1 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.
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 1 MB.
The total size of the files sent via the “submission form” must not exceed 10 MB.
If the total size of the files you are trying to send exceeds 10 MB, the sending will fail and will be aborted.
Caesium.
Caesium 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:
If you’re having trouble resizing and optimizing files, contact us and we’ll help.
If you want to promote your photo book, submit a News in the “Photo book” category.
This is the procedure:
- Go to the “Submit” page
- Select “Submit News”
- Choose the “Photo book” category
- 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.
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