Art Limited | faq and help system

Art Limited | faq and help system
This is a list of frequently asked questions about using and contributing to Art Limited. If you have just discovered Art Limited, take the time to check about page and the forum ones. You will find here information on the site, how it works and how to use it.

#001 - how to create an account on art limited?

Go to the "register" menu and follow the guidelines.

#002 - guidelines on how prepare your picture for art limited

Art Limited is an Art site, we only want very different, extraordinary and unusual artworks,
Avoid cute personal or family pictures, we are sure you are in love, but this is the wrong place,
Only submit your best completed work, something you're really proud of,
Always ask yourself what you would think of your work if you were not its author before publishing,
Don't upload pictures that are too small. (for example less than 500 pixels wide as the smallest side),
Take care of your work (tonalities, densities, color renderings or shades of grays, finishing),
Avoid signs, use a discreet watermark, done with a sans serif font (Helvetica, Swiss, ...),
Don't add wide borders, it restricts the view, Art Limited doesn't propose postcards and posters, and it will never be featured,
Stay natural in your presentation, avoid borders and the easy effects which are made possible by paint software packages.

#003 - how to manage my artworks?

Upload an artwork
Once you are logged in, go to the upper right UPLOAD menu. An interface proposes you a variety options for your image.
To upload scroll to the bottom and click on the button to select your picture file on your hard disk drive.
Edit an artwork
Go to your artwork, then click on "Edit artwork" link. At this point, be sure to have selected "Action type" for "Edit image" (default), then go at the bottom of the page, select a new picture on your disk, check "I certify ..." and click on the "Submit" button.
Delete an artwork
Go to your artwork, then click on "Edit artwork" link. At this point, be sure to have selected "Action type" for "Delete image", then go at the bottom of the page, check "I certify ..." and click on the "Submit" button.
Adult content
Adult content must be checked for explicit nudity, sexual scenes, violence and/or all restricted contents. Administrators can mark content as "adult content" if necessary without asking permission. A picture tagged "adult content" won't be available for the general public, non-registered visitors.
Participate to blind comments during 48 hours
Your profile will be hidden during 48 hours for this image and will allow comments without knowing who created it. During this time, the pictures will be hidden from your profile.
Selling your works
The site proposes different profiles where you can add information to sell an art work.
Art Limited doesn't sell or trade your work at this time. If a visitor see how much and how you sell your work, he will able to contact you and trade directly with you.
Create a gallery
To create a gallery for your images, go to the "TOOLS" menu, then "GALLERY" tab and follow the fields.
Technical characteristics
Use a maximum of attributes, buyers will use them to refine their searches. Select carefully the details of your artwork and leave the information if you are unsure about it.
Advanced critics
Request real commentary and real feedback on your artwork, more views through critical attention and rankings. Such images have a red square marker in the main gallery. Find out all these artworks in a dedicated gallery.

#004 - how to add an image into group projects?

There's 2 ways to add an image to group projects:
Add yourself to group projects
You must first choose projects and join them. Once done, go to your image editor, select an image and click on the projects tab.
Simply select the project where you want to add your image.
The project onwer has invited you
The other way is when a project owner invite you to join a project or to add your image into a project, even if you're member of it. You will receive an e-mail with details and instructions to follow. Pay attention to projects, wrong image insertions will be removed by project owners. Only PREMIUM account can create projects.

#005 - image categories

Image categories are important, especially for image researchers, your work and Art Limited credibility. The staff reviews each posted image. An image with a wrong category choice will result of its sorting deletion and won't be featured. The classification is oriented with the main image subject and its title.

Photography, film and Polaroid formats: precise the film and camera type.
Architecture: you need to precise the situation, name of architect and as many possible information concerning the creation.
Abstract: this is something without reference to anything into real or imaginary world, and can't be recognized.
Digital 3D/2D: thanks to precise the software(s) used for creation.
Portrait: A artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer.

Color: unaltered colors for photography, polychrome and color artworks (traditional painting and others).
Black and white: only black and white artworks.
Toned: monochrome, duotone, toned artwork (sepia, selenium, gold, platinum, cyanotype, split-toning and others), color changes (even digital) from black and white images.
Colorized: altered, post-colorization, rebuilt colormap, partial, selective and zone colorization, and chemical color-shift as in cross processing.

#010 - the importance of category choice and consequences

All artworks are checked by Art Limited's administrators one by one. In order to maintain a qualitative editorial line, an artwork won't show up in keyword search results or in any automated selection processings until it is validated.
If an image has been organised in a wrong category or a minor error has been made, Art Limited administrators will correct it manually.
If too many important errors are detected during image control, the automatic applicable consequences by the site are:
The artwork won't be featured by Art Limited.
The artist must fix the errors (see "ALERTS" tab in message menu).
The image will be reset and resubmitted to validation control later.
Art Limited records errors, a large amount or repeated errors will result in validation priority being set to low.

#020 - interested in buying work on art limited?

If an artist wants to sell his or her work on Art Limited, information concerning price, copies, shipping, used technics and other relevant points will be provided.
Art Limited acts as a trader between the artist and the buyer and doesn't receive any commission fee when a sale is made.
Art Limited does not print or ship any work.
A contact form is available for each item that is sold, allowing you to contact the artist directly.

Art Limited makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied as to the operation of the service, or the content or products, provided through this service. you expressly agree that your use of the service is at your sole risk.

Art Limited shall not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from use of the service, including but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, even if Art Limited has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

#030 - add a portrait on the profile

Add an image to your portfolio (you can make it hidden if you don't want any comments), then select it into your account menu under "avatar/portrait" tab.

#040 - i don't receive any more e-mail from art limited?

Once logged into the site, go to your ACCOUNT menu and follow the simple instructions.
Art Limited can automatically de-activate e-mail message if your e-mail address has been detected for any problem (mailbox full, message rejection, bounce, etc ...). To avoid this kind of problem and prior to re-activation, you must approve artlimited.net as an authorised sender on your e-mail system. After you have solved the problem you will be able to re-activate by yourself through your account interface.

#099 - using tags and keywords

Tags are like keywords or labels that you should add to your picture to make it easier to find later by others or crawled by web robots and spiders to get more visibility over the web.
You can tag with keywords like "paris fashion moulin rouge eiffel john". Later if you look for pictures of "paris", you can just click that tag and get all pictures that have been tagged with "paris".
You can add tags that belong to personal or popular groups. A number of people have created interesting image collections or series, with for example "johnexhibitionparis2007" for all pictures that were exhibited by John in Paris during 2007.

#100 - art limited featured pictures

Featured pictures are selected by Art Limited staff and editors. For PREMIUM accounts, it gives 3 days account credit to the artist per image to encourage creativity and quality. If a picture is deleted or removed for any reason, the credit won't be suppressed as well. Pictures that contain overly large signs, watermarks, borders or frames that cannot be considered part of the creative process won't be selected.
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#101 - pictures selected by members

Member artwork selection is made by registered artists when an artwork reach at least 70 points, and will immediately and automatically appear in the selection at this moment. The points requested are subject to changes, depending of the comment activity during a specific period, as well when Art Limited wants to improve the level and quality of the site.
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#102 - appreciated artists

This automatic random selection is based on PREMIUM artists who have more than 20 creations, who have accessed the site in the 15 days preceding the selection and who have an average of 38.89 points for their whole work. This dynamic list is computed each night.
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#103 - permanent contest

The permanent contest allows any BASIC account owner to win a free PREMIUM account valid during one year. Click on the link for more information.
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#105 - galleries and display options

Advanced information under thumbnails
If the option is selected, displays under thumbnails advanced information such as: V = how many times viewed
C = how many comments
P = how many points
F = how many selections as favourite
Red square = advanced critics requested
S = selected by Art Limited

#106 - how to create a journal?

Once identified on the site, go to the TOOLS menu and to select the JOURNAL tab.
A journal is a public place in which you can publish your own news, your selections, your preferred artists and pictures, of the news on art or special events, for exemple. It will be seen by all the members watching your work, as well as external site visitors. This visibility impact is huge, so use it the best way you can, respecting the following rules.
Inserting HTML code
You can insert simple HTML code, such as bold, italic, tables, font sizes, most advanced ones will be automatically removed. You can also add external images like for example a logo, decorative elements, notices and posters via the simple <IMG SRC="..."> HTML tag. You'll find many examples about it on Internet.
Using a Reference-Id
A "reference identification" is a marker making possible to add an element of the site easily.
For an image, you will find this reference in its details (noted [ref-pidxxxx]), allowing to copy-paste it in your journal to be replaced later by its thumbnail with its label, author, as well as a direct link to the original version.
You can also add the artist avatar the same way, the reference (noted [ref-mibxxxx]) being in the description of their profile.

#107 - how to delete an account?

Once logged into the site, go to your ACCOUNT menu and follow the simple instructions.
For policy and responsibility, we can't delete your account for you, even upon request.

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