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| Introduction |
| Administrators |
| What is a JPEG? |
| The images are black or have gone |
| The site thinks my image is not a JPEG |
| Creating jpegs |
| Uploading images |
| Reducing image sizes |
| Promoting your portfolio |
| Protecting your images |
| Can't Log in? |
| More help |
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The site thinks the image is not a JPEG
The Internet only understands standard RGB (red-green-blue) JPEGS, but often images are saved as CMYK (cyan-magenta-yellow-black). In an image editing program such as Adobe Photoshop make sure your images are RGB.
In Photoshop go to
Image>Mode>RGB
A 'JPEG' or 'JPG' is a file format used to save images. It is often used on the web because of its excellent compression ratio. When saving an image as a JPEG you will normally be given a choice to how much compression you want to save the file with. Remember your file sizes only have to be smaller than 150 kilobytes so it is probably not worth saving with very high compression as this will seriously degrade the quality of your image.
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Creating jpegs
To upload your images you need to ensure they are saved in a JPEG (aka
jpg) format. To do this open a image editing program such as Adobe Photoshop,
and then do the following:
Select FILE>OPEN
Browse for your file and open it
Select FILE>SAVE AS
Select JPEG from the formats listed (see below)
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Uploading images
To upload an image select BROWSE from the menu.
Browse for your file and press SELECT when you have found it.
Add any comments in the comments field and press UPLOAD when done.
Your image must saved as a JPEG and be less than
150k in size.
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Reducing image sizes
All images need to be less than 150k in size to be accepted on the site.
This is for two main reasons, firstly this reduces the time the images
will take to load when viewed and secondly it stops copying of hi resolution
images.
Firstly ensure you have saved your image as a JPEG
To make your image smaller in an image editing program such as Adobe Photoshop
SELECT IMAGE SIZE from the menu. Ensure your images is set to 72 dpi and
pixel dimensions are smaller than 800x600.
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Promoting your portfolio
Promoting your portfolio is essential to getting lots of people to see
your work and possibly offer you commission.
This can be achieved in a variety of ways including telling people you
know about your portfolio, getting people to link to your page and submitting
your page to directories and search engines (you must add a "/index.htm"
at the end of the URL ie. www.voodoochilli.net/artists/yourname/index.htm)
Some sites worth submitting to are:
dmoz.org
Google
Yahoo
Altavista
Exicite
You could also use the link on other promotional material such as postcard's
and business cards etc.
Feel free to link
to voodoochilli.net
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Protecting your images
We have already implemented a few devices to try and protect your images,
however there are ways people can try and steal your images. Be aware
of the following things when uploading your images.
Keep your images to screen quality, so that people will not get a decent
print if they try and steal your work. Keep your image
sizes low.
You could watermark you images, either using digital watermark technology,
or simply by putting your name across it.
Always keep a back up of your images
Prove your copyright- prove that you created those images and when. One
suggestion is to send your images to yourself via recorded mail, don't
open the envelope!
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Can't log in?
First Check your e-mail and password are the same as when you registered.
You should have changed your password the first time you logged in.
To retrieve your password click here
Finally, if you still can't log in click here to contact us.
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More help
If there are any subjects not covered here feel free to email
us
A good resources for art related information is the Association of Illustrators