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Return to Artist listing PVPA Web Submission Guidelines Folks – For the benefit of PVPA members who may wish to change their images on the PVPA website, or who may wish to post them there for the first time, I present below the guidelines for doing so. There are two steps. Briefly:
(1) When the first set of web images and accompanying text is initially submitted the fee is $25. Subsequently, $15 should be submitted to our treasurer each time a member web page is changed. Payment can be brought to a meeting, or mailed to our treasurer:
(2) Images, their titles and personal paragraph-long personal information (see details below) should be sent directly to our web designer, Bruce Wilson, by e-mail () or by regular mail on CD or other media to 414 W. River St. Orange MA 01364. Direct submission by e-mail attachment is much preferred. The details of what should be submitted are given below. PVPA members are encouraged to change the images on the website periodically, and once a year would be about right. Full Details HOW TO SUBMIT: The images should be submitted by e-mail or on floppy disks (cheap media, but limited file size), 100mb ZIP disks (expensive media), or CDs (cheap media). The e-mail address for submission is () . If you do not do direct digital capture of images, learning to digitize images from prints or negatives is a key step to having images on the web. There are several people in the PVPA group with scanners and there are labs in the valley that will scan prints or negatives for web use. Iris Photo at 164 Main St. in Northampton (413-586-8417) will scan slides, negatives or prints (up to 8x10) for web use for $1 to $6 depending on your choice of the resolution of the scan and the original media. This is a good price and the web committee has heard good things on their quality. Bruce, our web designer will do scans of slides, negatives or prints (up to 8x10) for $5 each. Note this includes his time to do basic adjustments to try to match your originals. HOW MANY IMAGES: Precisely Five, (for consistency among all member’s pages). IMAGE ADJUSTMENT: Please check your images on a computer before submitting them. Key areas to check are brightness, contrast, saturation and color balance. If you don't have software to view and adjust them, others in the group do, labs do and there are inexpensive programs you can buy to make basic corrections.
SPECIFICATIONS: JPEG is the preferred file format for our designer. The image size should have 400(min)-600(max) pixels on the larger direction (height or width) of the image. If you are asked (by your computer or a person) a question about how you want the file saved when scanning is being done, save the images for PC/Windows and not Apple/Mac. A hybrid file can be used by either type of computer, but if in doubt, choose to save for a PC/Windows machine. TITLES: All images must be accompanied by titles. These can be emailed directly to Bruce Wilson () as a separate file list along with the images themselves. To see examples of titles click on any of the member names found at http://www.pvphotoartists.com/artists.html and explore what you find. ABOUT YOU: You should also submit and keep updated some text (roughly two paragraphs about yourself). To see examples of such text click on any of the member names found at http://www.pvphotoartists.com/artists.html and read some sample oneparagraph or two-paragraph descriptions. ABOUT YOUR STYLE: You should also provide a one or two sentence description that indicates some measure of your overall style of photography. See the example member sentences at http://www.pvphotoartists.com/artists.html to help you decide what you may wish to say in this context.
COST: The cost for doing any update will be $15 per artist already on the site. This is due when you submit new images. The fee is fixed independent of whether you change one image on the site or all five. For members not already on the site the initial submission fee is $25. The yearly on-going cost of site maintenance for all members (hosting the site, exhibit updates, etc.) is $15 (due at the time of the Annual Banquet), independent of the separate fee for any image-updates to the site. Checks should be made out to PVPA and mailed to our treasurer,
QUESTIONS: Detailed technical questions: Best wishes, Bob Hallock () 9/13/2005; edited 4/4/2006 |