Online Image Preparation

Image Preparation – Photoshop, Lightroom or PhotoMechanic are recommended

The following IPTC fields are required:

• DOCUMENT TITLE is the image title.
• AUTHOR is the photographer’s name. 
• DESCRIPTION is the caption.
• CAPTURE DATE verify that this field is correct. 
• COPYRIGHT name of publication or copyright holder (if applicable).
• FILENAME

For picture stories, name the files as follows: sequence number, underscore, your last name, underscore, first name, underscore, keyword/slug for the story (abbreviated name of the story).

For example:
01_Brown_James_Circus.jpg
02_Brown_James_Circus.jpg
03_Brown_James_Circus.jpg

For unrelated single photographs, name the files with your last name, underscore, first name, keyword/slug for the photograph (word describing photo).

For example:
Brown_James_frog.jpg
Brown_James_canoe.jpg
Brown_James_cub scouts.jpg

 Image File Specifications

• Submitted images must be JPEG files. Compression level between 9 -11.
• Preferred color space: 8 Bit Adobe RGB, sRGB is acceptable.
• Image size:  2,500 px on the longest side. This is important. Images that are larger or smaller than 2,500 px on the longest dimension will be rejected. 
• Do not upsize or interpolate your submissions.

Captions

• All photographs must be captioned in the IPTC Description field.
• Captions may be added or edited after uploading to NPPF’s portfolio system. 

Lightroom Classic – Resample images to 2500 pixels

Video instructions below, text – right column.

This 3:21 minute video shows how to downsample images in Lightroom Classic.

Photoshop – Resample images to 2,500 pixels

This 4:31 minute video shows how to downsample multiple images at the same time.