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Uploading Images into PhotoShelter MU

Contents

Overview
Methods of Upload
Image Attribution
Contributor vs. Editor Upload
FAQ

Overview

Uploading images to PhotoShelter is easy and can be accomplished through a variety of mechanisms. Both Editors and Contributors can upload into the MU.

Unlike other services, PhotoShelter does not allow FTP uploads because of its lack of security controls. When you transmit data using FTP, your username and password are unencrypted across the Internet. PhotoShelter takes security very seriously, and therefore disallows this form of file transfer.

Methods of Upload

There are a number of ways to upload into the MU archive.

When you upload an image to PhotoShelter, the following operations are automatically completed:

IPTC data (metadata) is extracted and stored
Image is resized as a thumbnail and screen resolution
Image is stored and copied to our multiple datacenters.

Image Attribution

PhotoShelter automatically keeps track of who uploaded an image. But the uploader is not always the photographer, so there is a separate field to attribute the photographer. When you use any of the image upload methods with an MU account, you are prompted to optionally select a photographer. The list of photographers is generated from users in your Contributors list that you have designated as photographers, or Editors that you have designated as photographers.

You can always re-assign the "photographer" of the image at a later date.

Contributor vs. Editor Uploads

In order to delineate between Contributor and Editor uploads, the archive folders appear differently in your archive list. When an Editor creates an archive folder, they simply enter a name for the folder.

When a Contributor adds images, PhotoShelter automatically creates a folder name with the following syntax:

UP: [optional short desc] - [first initial] [last name] - [date of upload]

For example:

UP: Yosemite - A. Adams - 23 Aug 06

This helps Editors to quickly identify new uploads in the system. Of course, you can always change the name of a folder at any time by clicking on the folder name while viewing its contents.