Image Upload Guidelines

    Last updated March 25, 2024

    At Artrepreneur, we aim to help you succeed in your creative career. To help you best present your work and to ensure that our members and visitors have an enjoyable user experience when browsing and searching for art, we have developed the following guidelines for artwork uploaded to our platform.

    I. UPLOADS SHOULD BE ARTISTIC IN NATURE

    Artrepreneur accepts images that promote visual artists and their creative work. Uploaded images must be artistic in nature. Non-artistic works, such as:

    • selfies,
    • Snapshots of friends and family,
    • promotional photos,
    • unintentionally tilted photos,
    • or casual photos shot without purposeful artistic intent (I.e. photos taken out the window of a moving vehicle or uploaded directly from your phone or camera without basic adjustments such as brightness, contrast, or color adjustments)

    Merely adding an automated filter to a selfie, snapshot, or other non-artistic work will not make it rise to the level of “artistic in nature” and may be removed. Any uploads that include a phone app or other computer program logo will be removed.

    Images depicting pornography or hate speech will be removed. Artistic nudity or expletives will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

    II. ARTWORK CATEGORIES

    We accept images of artwork in the following creative categories:

    • Digital Art
    • Drawing
    • Graphic Design
    • Illustration
    • Maker
    • Mixed Media
    • Painting
    • Photography
    • Printmaking
    • Sculpture

    When uploading your work, you will be asked to choose a category and subcategory for that work or group of works.  Miscategorized works may be removed at our discretion.

    For artists interested in the Commercial Ready Program and the Readymade Store, please refer to our platform’s specific Open Calls. Each Open Call has detailed submission guidelines that must be followed to ensure your work is considered for these opportunities.

    Note to Videographers: Artrepreneur is primarily a platform for still images and animated GIFs, but not video. Pro Members can add video to their artwork detail pages from YouTube, Instagram, and Vimeo. For showcasing videos, upload a representative still image or animated GIF, then attach the video sample by editing the artwork details. Ensure the initial upload aligns with our image quality standards.

    III. IMAGE FILE REQUIREMENTS

    Uploaded images must be in JPG, PNG, GIF, or animated GIF formats, using either the sRGB or Adobe RGB color spaces. The minimum upload size is 2200px x 2200px. Images larger than this will be displayed at a maximum of 2200px.

    For those interested in the Commercial Ready Program, images must meet a minimum requirement of 18 inches on the shorter side, which translates to 5400px at 300 DPI.

    Note: On some pages, thumbnail images may appear cropped. However, clicking to open the image will display it in its original, uncropped format.

    IV. IMAGE QUALITY 

    It’s essential to upload high-quality images that accurately represent your artwork. If your work’s digital images or photos are poor, viewers will not have a good impression of your work or your talent. Images of your art should be as compelling as the work itself.

    To ensure that artwork on Artrepreneur is of the highest quality, your images should adhere to the following guidelines:

    • Photos of physical works should avoid:
      • Underexposed or overexposed images
      • Poor lighting
      • Color shifts
      • Harsh shadows or reflections
      • Blur from motion or focusing issues
      • Dirty lenses or fogging
      • Tilted or rotated images. The artwork should have straight edges and corners.
    • Images should be cropped to minimize excessively larger borders or distracting elements such as hands, pets, furniture, art supplies, etc.
    • Avoid excessive image noise from upsampling or upscaling.
    • Minimize artifacts from heavy post-production processing or over-filtering
    • Use high-resolution images. Do not upload thumbnails to represent your work.
    • Images should be free from intrusive watermarks, digital signatures, or text elements that are not part of the work, such as dates or descriptions.

    V. CROPPING

    Cropping is an essential part of your composition. By trimming your image to include only the artwork, viewers can focus on the most crucial part: the artwork.

    • Distracting elements, such as hands, feet, tables, tiles, or any other elements not intrinsic to your work, will negatively impact your viewers.
    • Images that include frames should be added as additional images. The cropped version without the frame should be the primary image.

    Works that are not adequately cropped, especially if the image is tilted or taken at an odd angle, will likely give viewers the impression that you don’t care about how your work is perceived. If you don’t care, then why should anyone else?

    We suggest you always strive to give the best impression about yourself and your work. Uploading high-quality cropped images will be critical to a positive impression.

    WE CAN NOT STRESS ENOUGH HOW IMPORTANT CROPPING IMAGES OF YOUR ARTWORK WILL BE TO YOUR SUCCESS. 

    Cropping can mean the difference between selling your work or getting a job. Plus, it’s so simple to do on Artrepreneur.  When you upload your work, use the cropping tool.  Photographs of your work should be as straight as possible to minimize harsh angles, which will help make your images look their best when cropping.

    PROMOTIONAL PHOTOS, COMPARISON SHOTS, OR MULTIPLE IMAGES OF THE SAME WORK

    When uploading your work to Artrepreneur, an artwork detail page is created, which allows you to add detailed information about the work, add the work to the Marketplace, and more. Each artwork detail page is considered a unique and independent work with its own artwork ID.

    Each upload should include a single work only, with the exception of before and after images to show photo retouching. Images that include multiple works may be removed.

    If you wish to upload multiple images of the same work, such as:

    • uploading different views of your sculpture,
    • works hanging in a home or gallery,
    • Macro or detail shots of your work,
    • wireframes of your 3D models,
    • advertisements, including your work,
    • or promotional pictures,

    DO NOT UPLOAD them as individual works.  That will create independent work for each image. Instead, upload your primary image to create the artwork detail page for that work.  You can then add up to five (5) additional images to any artwork detail page from the edit screen. You can add additional images by clicking the edit button on your artwork page.

    VI. IMAGES WITH SLIGHT VARIATIONS

    Curating your work is critical to this process to help you get more gigs and notoriety and to ensure that our members have a great user experience when browsing art and design on Artrepreneur.

    Slight variations should not be uploaded as independent artworks. If you have a series of similar images, such as a succession of photos of the same object, you should choose the one you believe is the best and upload only that version.

    You may add the other versions as additional images from your artwork page. Slight variations may be deleted at our discretion.

    VII. UNFINISHED WORKS

    Unfinished studies or other non-final images of completed works should not be added as Primary Images but as additional images. Unfinished artwork includes sketches, artwork presented on lined paper, or partially rendered works. Unfinished works will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis and may be removed.

    VIII. FRAMES

    Images should not include frames unless the frame is part of the work. Images should be cropped to remove the frames.  The framed image can be added as an additional image on the artwork’s edit screen.  (See Adding Multiple Images of the Same Artwork.)


     

    IX. DUPLICATE IMAGES

    Duplicate images will be removed at our discretion.

    X. AI-GENERATED AND PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES

    Members may not upload images that are in the public domain or those not created by human authorship, such as AI-generated Art. Art uploaded by its members to Artrepreneur must be by the copyright holder or author of the work. Images in the public domain do not have copyright protection. Additionally, Artrepreneur follows the guidelines of the U.S. Copyright Office, which states that A.I.-created images lack the human authorship necessary to support a copyright claim and are, therefore, in the public domain.  However, AI or public domain images that are altered to include copyrightable materials created by the artist, such as in collages or mixed media pieces, may be acceptable.

    XI. ADDITIONAL TERMS

    These Marketplace and Showroom Guidelines are incorporated into Artrepreneur’s Terms of Service. By using Artrepreneur, you’re agreeing to these guidelines and the Terms. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the respective meanings ascribed to such terms in the Artrepreneur Terms of Service.

    XII. CONTACT INFORMATION

    If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about this Policy, you may contact Artrepreneur via our Contact Page or by mail to Orangenius Inc., DBA Artrepreneur, 511 Ave of the Americas, Suite #934, New York, NY 10011.

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