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HOW TO UPLOAD PHOTOS ON RAWSTOCKPHOTO WEBSITE

To upload Photos you must register first, then login as Seller on our Website.

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We provide a two options for uploading your Photo files:
1. UPLOAD VIA SITE
2. UPLOAD VIA FTP
as well as
3. EDIT THE UPLOADED PHOTOS

1. UPLOAD VIA SITE

Go to section "My Upload”, and click the blue button "Java Photo Uploader". The site will automatically switch you to the section "New publication", "Java Photo Uploader".
Before you begin the process of uploading your Photo files, carefully read our Upload Agreement.

Step 1

Option 1

1. Click "Add" button to open a window for file _select_ion, where you can find your Photo file for upload.
2. Select the file from the list on your computer. If you decide to upload more than one file, you can simultaneously _select_ all files to upload by pressing and holding the "Shift" on your keyboard.
3. Click "Open" to add your Photo file/s.

Your Photo file/s appears in the window to upload.

Option 2

Find Your Photo file/s in the folder on your computer. Select the file/s to upload and simply drag them into the window to upload.

Your Photo file/s appears in the window to upload.

The requirements to Photo files can be found here. You can find Quality requirements for your Photos here.

Step 2

To continue the upload process of your Photo file/s, press the "Green Arrow".

Wait for the time needed to upload your Photo file/s. The time of Uploading depends on the speed provided by your Internet service provider.

Step 3

To complete the process of uploading of your Photo file/s, press "Finish Upload".

The site will automatically transfer You to the section "My publication", "Photo", where you can see your Photo file/s in table "All".

In the section "My publication", "Photo", table "All" You can:

• view the status of your Photo file/s. See our Seller Agreement, regarding the status of your Photos;
• get statistical information about your/s Photo file/s (ID, Title, Viewed, Downloads, Date);
• edit the information on the your Photo file/s - See how here;
• _delete_ your Photo file/s.

2. UPLOAD VIA FTP

Upload via FTP is performed in two stages:
1. Upload files via FTP;
2. Post files to the Website.

The information that you need to log in to your FTP account is described in Section "My Upload" on the Site. Use Your favorite FTP program to upload (FTP client).
Prepare the Photo files to upload, according to our Technical requirements for Photos.

Your FTP folder where should upload Photo files is: /photo

Select the Photo files from your computer and upload them via FTP client.

The limit of your FTP account is 1000 files.

After you finish uploading, your files for Publication are located in FTP folder: /photo.

Go to the Website, section "My Upload”, and click the green button "FTP Photo uploader". The site will automatically switch you to the section "New publication", "FTP Photo uploader".
Before you begin the process of uploading your Photo files, carefully read our Upload Agreement.

The Process of publishing your files takes a few steps:

Step 1

Step 2

We recommend you sell your Photos in all sizes and in both our licenses. Therefore, in the table about "Price" by default all checkboxes are _select_ed. Details about resolution, licenses and prices You can find here.

You must _select_ at least one of the three Product Categories for your Photo files.
• If all uploaded files correspond to your _select_ed Product Categories, we recommend that you leave enabled checkbox "Select All Photos".

• If you have uploaded files that do not match your _select_ed Product Categories should disable checkbox "Select All Photos" and check individual checkbox for each file that corresponds to your chosen Product Category.

Do this for each uploaded file corresponding to the given Product Category.

Step 3

Step 4

1. You must enter a title for your Photo file in the field "Title".
2. You must enter a description to your Photo file in the field "Description".
3. You must enter keywords for your Photo file in the field "Keywords".

You can find the requirements for entering information into these fields here.

1. You can change the Model or Property Release from the _drop_down menu "Model/Property Release".
2. To complete the process of publishing your _select_ed Photo files before you go to the next page with files (if any), click the "Upload".

Before you upload a file, You can add "Title", "Description" and "Keywords" to the file via your preferred software. When this metadata is added to the file our system will automatically identify it in the process of uploading. Thus you may not fill out the above three fields! Our Site use IPTC standard for metadata in files.

If your Photo file requires Model or Property Release, in the _drop_down menu "Model/Property Release" You must _select_ the file of the Release, that you have previously uploaded from the Section "My Upload", "Model/Property Release". If You do not have uploaded Model or Property Release in advance, you can do this by clicking "Edit" on the field "Model/Property Release". See how here.

3. EDIT THE UPLOADED PHOTOS

After completing the process of upload and site automatically take you to section "My publication", "Photo", table "All", You have two options to edit your Photo files:
1. Editing a single file
2. Edit multiple files

1. Editing a single file

Go to the "Edit" field of your Photo uploaded files. Here:

1. You must _select_ at least one of the three Product Categories for your Photo.
2. You must enter a title for your Photo file in the field "Title".
3. You must enter a description to your Photo file in the field "Description".
4. You must enter keywords for your Photo file in the field "Keywords".

You can find the requirements for entering information into these fields here.

5. You can edit the information in the table "Price".
6. You can change the Model or Property Release from the _drop_down menu "Model/Property Release".
7. You can add Google coordinate (optional) to show where you made your uploaded Photo file.
8. To complete the editing of your Photo file press "Change" button.

Important!

• In the table "Price" all checkboxes are checked by default.
• If you decide to _select_ only those checkboxes in the table "Price", which comply with your desire to sell the Photo file according to the size and Type of license, note that you can only disable some checkboxes, and subsequent editing will not be able turn them on again.
• You can not add new choice for size and type of license in the table "Price", if a previous editing you removed (unchecked some of the checkboxes).
The solution for this is to _delete_ the file and then re-upload it by your desired choice.
Carefully make your choice in what size and type of license you wish to sell your Photo files.

We recommend you sell your Photos in all sizes and in both our licenses. Details about resolution, licenses and prices You can find here.

2. Edit multiple files

In the table "All" _select_ these checkboxes of your Photo files that you want to edit. At the bottom of the table, press "Change" button. The site will switch you to the section for editing multiple files. Here:

1. You must _select_ at least one of the three Product Categories for your Photo/s.
2. You must enter a title for your Photo file in the field "Title".

3. You must enter a description to your Photo file in the field "Description".
4. You must enter keywords for your Photo file in the field "Keywords".

You can find the requirements for entering information into these fields here.

5. After you complete the editing your _select_ed Photo file press "Change" button.