Uploading New Images

NO WATERMARKS of your own. only high rez stuff. they won't print it with a watermark of your own. and you won't be able to print nice large prints without it being large. however you can't enlarge the images.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

This would be good advice if you're uploading high-rez images to your own website, as they could be stolen quite easily. Generally good practice not to upload high-rez images for public display without any sort of barrier to theft.

FAA gets around this by displaying a relatively low-rez full view image (yes, this can get stolen), but allows a zoom-in view at full rez that has an FAA watermark. That way, someone can't chop your image into pieces and reconstruct the pieces because each piece will have an FAA watermark. Kind of hard to make use of an image that has 50 FAA watermarks.

Along with the watermark the zooms put together don't show the entire image.

Travel Pics, the zoom isn't really for you....it's for your buyers. You should be checking your images at 100% before uploading. A buyer may want to see the sharpness, or inspect your image more closely.

i think the original use was for painters because they often don't really edit their stuff. but its often ignored by painters as well so oh well to that. ideally though its for the buyer now, and everything should be viewed at home. plus the zoom cuts off a chunk around the borders of each box.

---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Same issue. Hi everyone. I am new too and have hesitated to upload any images yet. When I signed up, I was expecting to receive some instruction on how to proceed, I wish FAA had a image guideline and proper uploading procedure for new members and if they do, I have not been able to locate it on their site. If there is one, would someone provide the link please.
So, as I understand it, I need to upload the best and highest resolution I have and the FAA would have mechanism in place to protect the high resolution images. Correct?
Another question is, do I upload one image at a time or can I zip them all and upload it. Any comment and guidance is appreciated.
Regards,
Hadi

Yes upload the highest resolution you have but you need to keep it under 25 mb's, FAA kept your original images under lock and key. You can do up to 5 at a time but if for your first couple I suggest you do them one by one so you can get used to naming them and keyboarding them properly

you can't compress them and don't enlarge them. save them as a jpg. be sure to add a good title, description and keywords. place it in a gallery folder now (that you make), to make it easier to organize. and to answer it before you ask it - collections are chosen by the staff.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Hi Kathy and Hadi. Have a look at the sticky at the top of the discussions page as it has the answers to lots of questions you may have.