Image Preparation — Use of Photoshop, Lightroom or PhotoMechanic recommended

The following IPTC fields are required:

• DOCUMENT TITLE is the image title.
• AUTHOR is the photographer’s name. creator
• 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 with the sequence number first, underscore, your last name, underscore, your first name, underscore, 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, your first name, 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 edited after uploading to our portfolio system. 

Downsampling Images

If you need to know how to downsample images in either Photoshop or Lightroom Classic, check the videos below or the text instructions in the right column. The videos are best viewed by expanding to full screen:

Downsample Images to 2,500 px in Lightroom Classic

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

Downsampling Images to 2,500 px in Photoshop

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