I understand Modelfolios pre-approves photos before they can be made public on my folio. Why is this?
It’s pretty simple: it comes down to quality. We want to be the best place on the web for you to be seen and discovered. So in order for your folio to shine, we need to make sure everyone else's is of professional standard too.
All you need to do is follow our guidelines below and you won’t go wrong.
What types of photos do you accept on Modelfolios?
Here’s a rough guide to what we accept:
- We prefer good-quality, fashion (commercial/advertising or editorial) and beauty photos.
- Photos should be professionally taken.
- Photos should be uncluttered — a model (you, if you are registered as a model) should be the primary subject of any uploaded photo, and fill most of the frame.
- We generally don’t accept glamour-type photos, or photos that contain nudity.
- We don't accept photos of children, or models under 18 years old.
- We don’t accept photos of landscapes, nature, or other general subjects.
- We may not accept a photo if the orientation is clearly incorrect, e.g. the photo is turned on its side. Please make sure you double-check your photos are the right way up before you upload! There are other websites where you can do basic editing tasks on your photos such as rotation — one we especially like is Picnik.
- You should make sure that any photo you upload is more than about 300x300 pixels in size.
How long will I have to wait for my photos to be approved?
We realise you’ll want to get your folio set up with your photos as quickly as possible, so we act quickly to approve your new photos. We promise it will be at most 7 days, but usually it’ll be much, much sooner. In fact, if you submit a set of photos, chances are that we’ll have approved them by the time you come back to the site to check. If, for whatever reason, we have to decline any photos, we will send you a message to let you know.
I’ve seen other people have customised the backgrounds of their folios with their own photographs. How can I do that?
You can set any photos that are public in your folio to be your background — just go to the individual page for the photo you’d like to pick, and select it there. The background you choose will also display behind your home page and your messaging area. More importantly, it will display in the background when anyone else views your folio, so it is a great way to give your folio your own look.
Tags are labels or keywords that allow your photos to be more searchable. People visiting your folio can browse your photos using the tags — so you can use them to point people to a particular set of photos.
I heard Modelfolios has a beautiful transparent interface, but I can't see it!
If you are a Windows user using Internet Explorer 6 as your browser you will see Modelfolios with a simpler appearance that does not use transparent areas as that browser does not have sufficient support for transparency. We hope you still find Modelfolios easy-to-use and beautiful to look at in Internet Explorer 6 — and assure you that the functionality is still exactly the same. If, though, you would like to use the full transparent version, please consider upgrading your browser to Internet Explorer 7 (users of Windows XP SP2 only), or using a more fully-featured browser such as Firefox, Opera or Safari in order to view Modelfolios.