Photo Submission Guidelines

There are times when community members will need to submit photos for inclusion on The Marshall Muse Gallery’s website. This page has been set up to make that process as efficient as possible. Please follow the guidelines below, before you submit photos. These guidelines will be especially helpful when submitting content through our Basic Website Submissions and Artist Web Page Submission pages.

Photo Submission Guidelines: File Size

Please upload the highest resolution version of your image possible. Ideally you will send photos of the original file size, as it was captured by the camera. However, images resized to 1500 to 2500 pixels are acceptable if necessary. Please do not submit images smaller than 1500 pixels.

Photo Submission Guidelines: Filename Formatting

Submitted photos should be renamed to include your 3 initials plus the inventory number used in your gallery submission, along with a few descriptive keywords. You may also include your name and/or the original camera-assigned filename.

Example:

Your name is Jane Anne Doe and you're submitting a photo of your painting of a Carolina wren perched on driftwood against a blue sky. This is the third of three paintings you are submitting to the gallery for exhibition. Your camera identified the photo as IMG_2846.jpg.

If you create a copy of the artwork photo you're submitting, you would change the filename in the manner of one of the following:

  • painting-carolina-wren-driftwood-jad003-IMG_2846.jpg

  • jane-doe-artwork-bird-blue-sky-jad003-IMG_2846.jpg

  • greensboro-artist-jane-doe-brown-bird-jad003_2846.jpg

The "jad003" tells The Marshall Muse Gallery whose painting and which one it is. The descriptive words make your image accessible in Google (or other search engine) image search results when someone searches either for your name or any of the keywords you included that describe some aspect(s) of your artwork. And keeping the final "2846" at the end enables you to connect this image with the "IMG_2846.jpg in your personal files, should you ever need to locate the original.