Help and support

Photographs must be JPEG, up to 10 MB per file.

Send the best quality you have: the site produces the various display sizes from your file itself. Uploading an already-reduced image saves nothing and permanently limits how well your photograph can be shown.

There is no limit on the total number of photographs you publish. Only the rate is limited: by default, 5 photographs per 7-day period.

It is a rolling window rather than a fixed weekly quota: if you published 5 photographs last Tuesday, you can publish again from next Tuesday onwards, gradually. How many uploads you have left is shown on the upload page.

In other words nothing stops you building a substantial book — it simply takes time. The limit exists to keep the new-work feed readable: without it, a single member could occupy the home page alone. It can be raised case by case; write to us if your activity warrants it.

A title (at least 3 characters) and one to five categories. The description is optional but strongly advised: it is what gives an image its context, and described photographs attract noticeably more discussion.

Categories determine where your photograph appears on the site. Choose them with care, and do not tick five out of habit: two accurate categories are worth more than five approximate ones.

If your photograph contains nudity or explicit content, you must classify it in the corresponding category. This is not a formality.

That classification, and nothing else, determines who your photograph is shown to. Every member chooses a content level — safe only, artistic nude, or everything — and relies on you for that choice to mean something. There is no automatic way to work out the classification on your behalf.

Failing to do it has consequences. A misclassified photograph is reclassified by the team, and repeated failures lead to a restriction on your ability to publish, or its suspension. It is the only rule on the site whose breach is penalised directly, because it is the only one the other members' trust depends on.

When in doubt, use the more restrictive category. Nobody will hold it against you.

Thumbnails are square, and your photograph probably is not. When you upload, a slider lets you choose which part of the image is used, with a live preview. You can change it at any time by editing the photograph.

Three possible explanations:

• The photograph is in a private gallery. That is the only way to make a photograph private: there is no setting on the photograph itself. It then appears in no list — not the home page, not the categories, not the rankings — and is visible only to you and to the members you have granted access. It becomes visible again as soon as it is in no private gallery.
• It is classified in an explicit category. Signed-out visitors never see it, under any circumstances. Signed-in members see it blurred if their content level is lower, with the option to reveal it in one click. That is the expected behaviour, not a malfunction.
• You are looking in “New”. That page shows only the last six months. An older photograph is no longer there, but remains in your book, in the categories and in the rankings.

If none of these fits, write to us — with the link to the photograph.

Yes. The site automatically extracts the camera body, lens, aperture, shutter speed, sensitivity and capture date, in order to show them on the photograph's page. This information comes from your file; if it is missing or wrong, the camera did not record it.

GPS coordinates are not read at all. The site does not extract them, does not store them in its database and displays them nowhere.

Only the resized versions of your photographs are reachable from outside. The file you uploaded is kept in a non-public area, out of reach of visitors and search engines alike.

Three things go into the calculation:

• the points given by members who voted;
• favourites, which count for more than a plain vote — favouriting a photograph is a more committed gesture than scoring it;
• a small bonus when several different members have voted, a shared opinion being more meaningful than an isolated one.

How many times a photograph has been displayed does not count towards its rating, and there is no longer a most-viewed ranking. Attention follows prominence: such a ranking mostly measures where the site put the photographs, and ends up rewarding what provokes rather than what succeeds.

0 to 3 points for members, 0 to 5 for Premium members.

Yes, at any time. Vote again on the photograph: your new score replaces the previous one.

A vote expresses an appraisal; a favourite builds your own collection, reachable from your menu. The two are independent — you can favourite a photograph without scoring it, and the other way round.

Photographs classified as explicit follow a separate rating calculation, deliberately stricter. They remain reachable, but do not dominate the general rankings. The home page, for its part, never shows explicit content — whatever your setting.

From their page or from the page of one of their photographs, using the contact button. The conversation happens inside the site: your email address is never disclosed.

You must have published at least three photographs in order to write to somebody. The rule is long-standing and deliberate: people come here to show work and talk about it, and an empty account contacting strangers is almost always something else. It applies to the contact form on personal sites too.

A Visitor account publishes no photographs and therefore cannot contact anyone. We are aware this is a limitation; write to us if it gets in your way.

Yes, but it applies only to new conversations: 5 per rolling 7-day period, and 20 for Premium members.

Replying within a conversation already open is never limited — the rule targets mass approaches to strangers, not being responsive. It is also what makes the site liveable for models, who receive far more approaches than they send.

You can block a member from within the conversation. They will no longer be able to write to you. The list of members you have blocked can be consulted and changed in your settings.

If a message seems to you a matter for moderation rather than simple disagreement, report it: a reporting link is available on every message.

A Report link sits directly on the photograph, on the member's page, under every comment and on every private message. Choose the matching reason, add a few details if needed, and that is all: we then know exactly what you are referring to, without your having to copy a link.

Your report stays confidential: the person concerned is never told where it came from. You are informed when it has been reviewed — we do not, however, disclose the detail of moderation decisions.

If a nude or explicit photograph is not classified as such, use the reason provided for it: this is the most important rule on the site, and those reports are particularly useful to us.

A translation button is offered on messages, comments and descriptions written in a language other than yours. On-demand translation is available to every signed-in member; Premium members can have it applied automatically.

From My profile. You will find your introduction, your location, your links, and — for models — your characteristics and posing preferences.

Four pieces of information are required: date of birth, introduction, country and city. Until they are provided, the site returns you to the form on every page.

If you were a member before, your city is probably the one missing: the old site did not ask for it. It is a one-off. Your date of birth is never displayed publicly — it is used to confirm you are of age and to set what the site shows you.

A Visitor account can be converted into a Photographer or Model account from the profile page. That choice is final, however: write to us if you have made a mistake.

Your introduction, your links and your public photographs are visible to everyone.

Your email address, on the other hand, is never displayed, and your location is shown only as city, region and country — never a precise address.

In your profile, a “What you are shown” setting offers three levels:

• Safe only
• Safe and artistic nude
• Everything, including explicit

Each level includes the ones before it. You must have given your date of birth and be of age to change it.

Photographs above your level do not disappear: they are blurred, marked 18+. You can reveal one in a click, one at a time — so the setting is not a closed door, but a way of not being taken by surprise. If you find yourself revealing them often, the site will offer to raise your level.

The setting says nothing about what you publish: a photographer of nudes may perfectly well choose to see only safe work.

In your settings, under Notifications. Each kind of event — message, comment, favourite, vote, new follower — can be set independently: on the site, by email, or not at all. You can also choose a daily or weekly summary rather than individual messages.

From your profile settings, confirming with your password.

This is final. Your photographs, votes and comments are removed from the site, and your username becomes available again. If you only mean to take a break, write to us instead: there are less drastic options.

• An extended rating scale (0 to 5)
• Themed galleries, to organise your photographs into series
• A personal site on your own subdomain, with its theme and its guestbook
• Automatic translation of content written in another language
• A higher contact allowance: 20 new conversations a week instead of 5
• A higher publishing allowance

A private gallery is visible only to you and to the members you grant access. The photographs it contains become private: they disappear from the home page, the categories, the rankings and your book, and reappear if you remove them from the gallery or make it public.

When you upload, you can place a photograph directly into a gallery: that is the only way for it never to be public, even briefly.

One consequence worth knowing: if all your photographs are in private galleries, you no longer appear in the Photographers and Models directories. Those lists present each member through one of their photographs; with no visible photograph, there is nothing to show. So leave at least one gallery — or a few photographs outside any gallery — visible to everyone if you want to remain findable.

Premium is not on sale yet. No paid subscription is offered at present: nothing is asked of you, no banking details are collected, and there is nothing to cancel.

Premium access is granted from time to time by the team. We may open a subscription later; if we do, the terms will be amended first and nobody will be charged without having accepted them.

This is deliberate: we would rather open the new site, gather your feedback and settle the last details before asking anything of anybody.

They are not deleted. They simply stop being visible to other members and remain available to you. They become public again if access is restored.