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| How Do I Set Up My Private Gallery? |
| You can set up your account online. |
| You must be registered on the site, then go to the 'Join Us' page
on the website and purchase a private gallery subscription. |
| The site keeps your original files names of images uploaded, this allows you to
have the same file names at home and in your portfolio. |
| You can upload images to your account over the
internet as long as each image is less than 10 megs
when saved as a JPEG ( always save your images at
the highest quality and always keep a back up copy
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| If your images are bigger than 10 meg you can send
us them using www.yousendit.com or send us a CD/DVD
and we will upload them for you. You must have set
up an account before sending us images using these
methods. |
| Send a CD/DVD to the address below: |
Latent Light Ltd
P.O.Box 1426
Mangotsfield
Bristol
BS16 9ZJ
England |
| Make sure you write your name, address, daytime
telephone number and your email address on the CD/DVD.
Only use a soft tip pen suitable for writing on
a CD/DVD. |
| Note: Please do not use re-writtable
CD's as they are more likely to deteriate over time. |
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How do I
scan my Negatives or slides
Do you accept
images from a Digital Camera? |
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| Frequently Asked Questions |
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| Do i need to do anything before i upload
or send you images? |
| You will need to set up an account online and pay your subscription fee. |
| You then need to log in to your photographers admin
and click private galleries. |
| Click on 'Add Gallery' |
| Enter a name for the private gallery, this is the name
the customer / clients will see when they log in (i.e.
adam and kims wedding or kims portrait shoot) |
| Then click upload images. This will take you to the
upload page where you can choose the images off your computer
that you want to upload. Click upload and the site will
load all of the images choosen. NOTE: do not upload 100's
of images all at the same time as the systems will run
extremely slow, especially if loads of other people are
uploading at the same time. Top |
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| What happens after I have sent you
a CD/DVD or uploaded my images? |
| Click on the select box on each of the images you want to upload
in to your choosen gallery. At the bottom there is a drop down menu. Choose
the gallery you want to add to and click 'Process Images' |
| Set up a pricelist for the private gallery, and add a log in for your client.
Make sure the log in you set up has a pricelist assigned to it and that the gallery
you want it to work with is ticked. The images will now appear when someone logs in
through the private gallery link on the main site. |
| All you need to do is log in to your photographers admin,
and through there you can control everything about your
private gallery. You can switch images on and off ,choose
what products you want to sell from them and choose your
username and password information to be able to log in
from the main website |
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| How do I make money from my images? |
| In your admin the site shows you the cost price ( the
price it costs you to buy the product from us ) You can set
the retail price to what ever you like as long as it is
above the cost price allowing you to control your own
profit margins |
| You make the difference between the cost price and the
retail price |
| VAT will be paid on your royalties if you are VAT registered
and have entered the relevant information in your account
details. |
| No royalty payments are made on Printed products bought
by photographers at their discounted rates. Royalty payments
are only paid on products purchased at our retail price. Top |
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| What currency are royalties paid in? |
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| What do you use your share of the money for? |
| We pay to have the prints produced, checked and packed
for despatch. We have to pay transport, staff and office
overheads to be able to run the company. |
| We have to pay all the overheads for the running, maintaining
and updating of the site. |
| We have to pay for advertising and promotion of the
site. Top |
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| What sort of images do Latent Light want? |
| Any photographic images of good quality that are correctly exposed and that you hold the copyright for. Top |
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| How much does it cost to put an image
in a private gallery? |
| It is free to upload an image in to a Private
Gallery. You can have a maximum of 3000 images in a maximum of 30 galleries at once.
After a gallery is 6 months old the site ask you whether you want to delete it. Top |
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| What sort of images do Latent Light NOT want? |
| Any image that you personally do not own the copyright for. (i.e.. You do not own the image or
have written permission from the owner to sell the image. ) |
| Any images that are poorly exposed or badly damaged |
| Any naked images of children. Any image that is pornographic. Top |
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| Do Latent Light check images in Private
Galleries? |
| Yes, images in Private Galleries are checked by Latent
Light Top |
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| What else do I get for my money? |
| You get Trade Price on all of the products on Latent
Light, so if you want an image printed from your Private
Gallery or you want to print another image using the 'Print
your own' feature you get a very good deal. |
| You can sell your images as many different products,
some unique to us, plus have the benefit of our edit functions
to allow customers more control over their purchase. Top |
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| When do I get paid for a sale on the site? |
| Royalties get added to your account 31 days after a
sale is made, the amount you can claim or request as a
cheque is displayed on the status page when you log in
to your admin. |
| You can use the royalty payment due to pay for uploads,
subscriptions or any other products on Latent Light or
you can request that a cheque is sent out. |
Using the Sales/Royalties link in your Photographers
Admin you can see which images have sold, for how much
and how much you have made from your sales. This feature
is real time and updates the instant someone purchases
one of your images. Images purchased with in the last
31 days will show as royalties pending. After 31 days
the amount will be added to your account automatically.
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| We no longer pay royalties every 3 months and you must
request a payment via your admin if required. Please allow
7 days for a cheque to reach you. We do not issue a cheque
for less than £10 GBP unless your subscription has
expired. We will be able to make payments direct to your
account in the near future. Top
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| How much is the subscription? |
| A yearly subscription for Private Galleries is £49. |
| A month before your subscription runs out you will be
sent an email asking whether you would like to re-subscribe
for another year. |
| The subscription pays for the the storage of your images
on LatentLight, you can have a maximum of 3000 images
in up to 30 Private Galleries on the site Top |
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| Can I subscribe if I do not live in the UK? |
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| What happens if I don't repay my subscription? |
| If you stop paying your subscription your images are
automatically removed from the site. |
| The database will hold your images for a further 6 months
before permanently removing them unless you request us
to remove them via email. Top |
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| What if I want to cancel my subscription before it runs out? |
| If you cancel your subscription before the end of its
term, we can remove your images from the site if you wish.
You will not be entitled to a refund of the subscription
fee |
| Otherwise you can leave your images on the site until
the end of the subscription and they will be dealt with
in the same way as not repaying your subscription. |
| If you choose to leave your images on the site you will
be paid your royalties on sales until the end of the term. Top |
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| How do I add more images? |
| You can upload new images directly to your portfolio
using your admin area as long as the images are less than
10 megs each when saved as a JPEG, or use www.yousendit.com
or send us a CD/DVD and we can upload them for you. Top |
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| How are my images put on the site? |
| Each image will be re-sized for the website and the
Latent Light copyright logo applied for security. |
Each image will be automatically assigned products
from the database so that customers can buy your image.
The amount of products assigned are determined by the
file size of each image |
| Each image is sorted into the Private Gallery you have
choosen to upload it to Top |
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| What information do I need to give you about the images? |
| You do not need to give us any information about your
images Top |
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| Do I own the copyright on my images or do
Latent Light? |
| You always own the copyright of the images on the site, but
by subscribing you authorise us to be your agent in selling
your images. This means that we can sell them from the site
on your behalf. Top |
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| Do LatentLight have exclusive rights to my
images? |
| No. You can use your images however and wherever you like whilst they are on the site. Top |
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| Latent Light will not be held responsible
for the following: |
| Images being sold from a Private Gallery that you do
not have a release for / or have had permission from the
models to sell the images or do not own the copyright |
| Any breach of copyright laws that any of your images have
applied to them. We assume that you own the copyrights for the
images on the site. |
| Any illegal copy of your images from the site and subsequent
use in any form of media. |
| Although we at Latent Light Ltd try to ensure the information
contained in our website is correct and true we can not be held
responsible for any errors or omission's within the website. |
| We at Latent Light Ltd reserve the right to change any areas
of the website without prior notice to any of its users
and subscribers and can change the products and pricing
structures for products, postage and services at any time
we see fit to do so. Any changes to the subscription options
for photographers will be emailed to subscribers before
changes are made with 1 months notice given to said changes. |
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