Photographers FAQ
FAQ Photograph buyers
Photo © License Features FAQ
How to create an account? How to get there?
How can I display my photographs on the site?
I want to create a photographer “profile”. How should I go about it?
What is the procedure for sending photographs?
When should I enter my keywords?
Can I send photographs representing natural persons?
What is the payment threshold mentioned when creating a photographer account?
I have long since sent photographs which do not appear on LicencePhoto ©. What is going on ?
How does PhotoLicence determine the price of a photograph?
I wish to change the availability for sale of a photograph already present on the site. How should I go about it?
What are keywords used for?
I am using a macintosh, can I send my photographs?
I want to send and sell my photographs. What are the topics most sought after by buyers?
If you do not find the answer to your question here, do not hesitate to contact us directly under the “contact” section of the website or at the following address: info@licencephoto.com .
THE ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS
How to create an account? How to get there?
To open an account, simply go to the “Create my account” section . Register as a new buyer or photographer and complete the form that is proposed to you.
At the end of your registration, you will receive a confirmation message at the indicated email address. By clicking on the confirmation link of the message, you will be definitively registered.
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How can I display my photographs on the site?
First of all, it is important that you scan your shot correctly, making sure you have a resolution of at least 1,000,000 pixels. The resolution is calculated by multiplying the length and width of your photograph (ex: a photo available at a resolution of 1024 * 768 pixels has a total resolution of 786,432 pixels). We do not impose any upper limit on the resolution or the size of your photos: have fun!
Then, go to the “Send a photo” section and follow the registration procedure and sending the photographs.
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I want to create a photographer “profile”. How should I go about it?
To be able to create a photographer profile, you must obviously first have a photographer account. Thus, when you identify yourself on your personal account, you have the possibility to complete your profile in the section ” Consult or modify my parameters.”. -> “photographer” button at the bottom of the page. In this way, you directly choose each of the elements that will be left in view of all the users of the site and will allow them to know you better: your name, your passions, your face or the avatar representing you, you trace to your hand the contours of the personality you want to appear…. You will undoubtedly also have noticed that apart from the section reserved for your profile information, you have access, throughout the section “Consult or modify my parameters”, to check boxes entitled “visible to all”. By selecting each of these boxes, you include the information found in the field corresponding to your delivery. When your profile is created, it instantly appears in the “The Photographers ”from the Photographer Space.
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What is the procedure for sending photographs?
Users who have created a photographer account can, as soon as their registration is validated, send photos to the site. First of all, it is important that your photograph is available at a resolution of at least 1,000,000 pixels. Then, go to the “Send a photo” section (Click on “Photographer area” in the left menu then on “Submit your photos” or go to your account and click on “Send a photo” in the options of “My photographer account”). In both cases, follow the procedure for sending the photographs: you must enter a French title, an English title, the category (ies) corresponding to your photograph, the availability for sale of your photograph, adhere to the LicensePhoto © photographers charter, and finally, attach your.jpg file, like an email attachment. Click browse to locate the file on your computer, when it is located select it and click “Open”. When you have completed all the fields on this page click on “Send”. More generally, you will find here all the information on the creation of a photographer account. .
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When should I enter my keywords?
It is when sending the photograph that the keywords are entered. After having completed and validated the first page of sending photographs, you will then arrive at the page for inserting the keywords, you must insert at least 5, an automatic translation into English is offered to you. You can also specify the characteristics of your photograph (black & white;, close-up, panorama, love, etc.). When you have entered the keywords and the relevant characteristics for your photograph, click on “Send”. More generally, you will find here all the information on the creation of a photographer account. .
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Can I send photographs representing natural persons?
Insofar as we can not be certain as to the will of the people appearing in the photographs to have them disseminated publicly, we reject in principle any image in which directly identifiable characters appear. Thank you for your understanding.
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What is the payment threshold mentioned when creating a photographer account?
The payment threshold is the lower limit that your account must exceed for LicencePhoto © to process your payment. By default, this threshold is set at € 100. You can choose to increase this limit when you register, in particular to simplify your accounting and receive less frequent but greater remuneration.
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I have long since sent photographs which do not appear on LicencePhoto ©. What is going on ?
We receive all the photographs sent by the sending form. The insertion of photographs depends mainly on the number of photographs received and the pending stock, but please be aware that we deal primarily with photographs at the highest resolutions and those for which all the keywords have been completed. As soon as your shipments are processed, whether they are accepted or refused, you will be kept instantly and automatically informed by email. Indeed, it happens that we refuse to integrate certain images for the following reasons:
• resolution less than 1 Megapixel,
• poor quality of the photograph (blurred image, uninteresting representation, etc.),
• representation of directly identifiable natural persons,
• political, immoral, offensive, defamatory, illegal, demeaning, pornographic or xenophobic nature of the photographic representation.
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How does PhotoLicence determine the price of a photograph?
Before realizing its price list, our team carried out a complete market study in order to stick as closely as possible to the realities of the market. The selling price of individual photographs is thus calculated directly from the size of the photograph, calculated in pixels. The customer having the choice to buy the photographs in the size he wishes, the price of the photograph is calculated according to the following scale:
Size of the purchased photograph (length x width, in millions of pixels)
Selling price Photo License © HT (per million pixels)
<0.6
45 €
Between 0.6 and 1.5
€ 30
Between 1.5 and 3
23 €
Between 3 and 5
16 €
Between 5 and 10
13 €
Between 10 and 20
€ 10
> 20
€ 8
In the case of the sale of CD-ROMs, the price is fixed, regardless of the number of photographs contained.
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I wish to change the availability for sale of a photograph already present on the site. How should I go about it?
Each photographer can change the availability for sale of his photographs already on the site at any time directly from his personal account. To do this, log into your account by entering your login and password. Then go to “List of your photos”. You then have in front of you the exhaustive list of all your photographs present on the site. By clicking on the “details” button you can select the photograph you wish to modify, the file of which opens. All you have to do is click on the “available” or “make unavailable” button depending on whether or not you wish to make the photo concerned available for sale.
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What are keywords used for?
Keywords are very important: they are used to reference your photographs, both on general search engines (google, yahoo, etc.) and on that of the site for the French and English parts. The more you find key words, the more likely your photographs will be seen, appreciated…. and be quickly integrated into LicencePhoto! Indeed, the administrators of the site treat as a priority the photographs containing key words during their insertion.
If you cannot complete the fields, think about associations of ideas (boat-> hull, masts, prow, sails, doll …) or general information on your photograph: geography (city, country, region …), techniques (black & white, macro, close-up, aerial view …), etc.
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I am using a macintosh, can I send my photographs?
No problem. Our site is configured to be freely usable by all computers and all operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac OS, etc.)
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I want to send and sell my photographs. What are the topics most sought after by buyers?
First of all, buyers are looking for photographs that can be used on any medium, therefore at the highest possible resolution. Regarding the themes, the most requested are often the rarest. It should be noted that a recurring request concerns scientific and technological themes in general: astronomy, IT, laboratories, technological construction, rockets, etc. The textures are also the subject of a strong interest.
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