Photographica is the coolest site on the internet to share your photographs with the world. With over 10,000 members now, Photographica has grown exponentially the last year or so--and we're glad you've decided to join in the fun. Here are a couple of pointers to help you master the site:

Submit a story just once every 24 hours. We appreciate your enthusiasm, but the front page only holds 30 stories at a time. When you post, the story on the bottom drops to the second page, where it receives much less traffic. If you post two or three stories in a row, two or three stories will drop off the front page. Be nice to your fellow member and just post once per day. Remember, you can post any number of pictures within your post as you want.

Read the Help Page, and PREVIEW! If your picture is not appearing in your story as a popup when you Preview, it will not appear when you click Submit. You need to manually insert your photos into your story. You do this by choosing your photo from the dropdown menu to the right of the text body on the Submit New Story page. You can then change the words "Description_Here" to whatever you want to title your picture. Like this! Remember, you can Preview as many times as you need to--but you can Submit only once.

Read through the Q&A Section.You can read all the questions others have come up with by clicking on the Q&A link in the right-hand blue box on every page. There you can learn how editors delete your photos upon request, you can create avatars to show up when you make comments, and why the Photo Journals section is so cool. This site rewards exploration--no question is dumb, and no question hasn't come up before.

This is a community.The great thing about Photographica is its members and community. Don't just submit photos--comment on other members' work! The more feedback we get, the better photographers we'll all be.

Put your money where your pictures are.Help make this the best photo site on the web: Subscribe! You not only get access to cool features, you're helping with the administrative costs and doing your part. You'll be the among the first to try out new features as Cory implements them, too.

Have fun.Photographica is a rewarding site that encourages discussion, debate and, within reason, controversy. We're only as good as our members.

Questions?Contact info for your Editors is at the top of every page, by clicking the About link.

Ok...so I take a shot and it looks great after I photoshop it. I have CS2 and I always start by making it a SmartObject and then rasterizing it. I manipulated the photo and all looks good. I save as jpeg at 72dpi and at high quality (10). The image still looks good. Then I upload it to photographica and it turns to crap. What happened and how do I fix it. I am afraid that someone will purchase an image from me and it will look great on my computer, but look like dog poo to the client and I will never be hired again.....help!

Crap Example 1

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i am still having the same trouble on my computer. starts the upload and when it switches pages it just shows done on the bottom of the screen. never uploads the pictures. I tried from a friends computer today and had no problems. I have just installed spybot is it posible it has caused this problem. please help i have become addicted to your site and need a daily fix.

i cant upload any more pictures, i go though all the steps and they upload and then goes to a blank screen saying done at bottom any suggestions.

I'm just a beginer at this, so if I mess up please forgive me as I am also learning to use my first computer. I have taken soom fairly good pictures of the Blue Angels in action, but I need to figure out how to post them. Help in this area would be much appreciated.

Hello to Everyone in Photographica,
  I am from Houston,Texas this is my first time in Photograhica and I would like to post some pictures. Would you please, tell me how to resize them or is it done by the site automatically ?

     Thanks in advance for your help.
Miztli

Hi!
I'd like to participate to "Best of 2005 entry animals" but I have some difficulties to choose, as animals are my favortite subject in photography, so I have too many pictures of them! Please take a look at my profile (there's 2 pages) and tell me what you think...  

Thank you!