Uploading photographs

Upload your photographs on the Photographs page. Each file can be a JPEG, PNG or TIFF, up to 1.5 GB. Choose the full-size file for the best prints.

Steps

1. Open Photographs and press Add photographs.
2. Drop your photographs onto the box, or choose them. On a phone or tablet the button reads Choose photographs.
3. Keep the page open until your photographs have uploaded. Each file shows its own progress.
4. When a file arrives it reads Uploaded — we’ll prepare it for selling. While STIL LAB prepares it, its card reads Preparing.
5. When a photograph you uploaded on its own is ready, the page says so. Press Put on sale to open the product builder. In the old Studio the link reads Sell this photograph.

Good to know

• STIL LAB keeps your photographs at full resolution for printing. Only web-sized copies are ever shown on your website.
• A file that is not a JPEG, PNG or TIFF, or is too large, is refused before it uploads, with the reason beside it.
• If you try to leave the page while a file is still on its way, your browser asks first. A closed page is an upload that did not finish.
• An upload that did not finish shows Needs attention · the upload didn’t finish. Open it, press Remove it from my Photographs, then upload the file again. An unfinished upload is cleared from your Photographs a day after it started.
• A file STIL LAB could not read shows Needs attention · STIL LAB couldn’t read the file. It cannot be printed, shown on your site or sold. Open it to see what to do, then upload the photograph again as a JPEG, PNG or TIFF.
• To upload a whole folder into a collection, see Bulk upload.