Thanks for your interest in contributing your images to TrellisCreative.com. TrellisCreative.com is quickly becoming the de facto source for wine and wine lifestyle photography being specifically marketed to the wine industry and those who market to and for the wine industry. Our customer base includes vineyards, wineries, marketing & design firms, magazines, realtors and anyone in need of wine related imagery.

Our photo library consists of professional images that are keyworded and categorized for easy searching and ready to be instantly downloaded. All images are sold as royalty-free, which means our customers pay once for an image and use is as much as they like. This pricing model has become a standard in the over $2 billion a-year stock photography industry.

Why choose TrellisCreative?

• Commission rate of 60%! This rate is much higher than other stock agencies return to their photographers for a sale.
  
• Great way to increase your online exposure through search engine optimization. Our site content gets indexed frequently by all the major search engines as well as some stock photo industry specific sites.
  
• No fees to contribute your work. The site and service are completely free to use. We pay all the site development, advertising and marketing costs and credit card processing fees. The only payment made to us comes when your images are sold. Commission checks are mailed monthly to our photographers for their image sales.
  
• Security features prevent the copying of your work. Our website utilizes features that prevent most types of image gleaning, including: disabled right-clicking, viewing page source, drag-n-drop from web pages, disabled directory browsing, and secured and hidden paths to all image files.
  
• Your work remains your own. We don't sell or trade images with other stock agencies. Our goal is to keep our content unique and return the highest commission to our photographers. Your full copyright statement should be embedded in your image IPTC data. By adding images to our site you are not transferring or assigning any of your copyright to us.
• Control your images and track your sales. You can view and edit your image(s) content, including IPTC data, once it's been uploaded to the site, as well as view the number of times an image has been viewed. Sales reports are also available to you at any time from within your photographer administration website.
• Set your own prices or use our global pricing. Currently, Web resolution instant downloads are $99 each and Print resolution downloads are $199 each.
• Photographer's profile page. We're always working on ways to attract internet traffic to TrellisCreative.com. Two upcoming site additions planned are:
  • Photographer's profile section - we think people are interested in who's making the photos they are buying. This section will also be another venue for increased internet exposure for our photographers with the hopes of landing them commissioned photography projects. Each profile will contain a brief bio/artist statement, your contact info including website, and optional picture of yourself.
  • California winery directory - a great part of driving visitors to your website is to include information people want and to appear to the search engines as a viable source for a specific genre or subject. Since the focus of our images is on wine and wine lifestyle, we're implementing a list of wineries throughout California categorized by county. Additional wine regions will be added as well.

What do we ask of our contributors?

• Agree to these photo and website usage and pricing policies, and terms and conditions.
  
• Well organized and high-quality images. Images must be sized and furnished as two jpg files: a web version (800x600 @ 72dpi) and hi-res (minimum 8.5"x11" @ 300dpi). We will create the thumbnails and preview images, as well as watermark the preview images.
  
• Fully keyworded and annotated image files with IPTC metadata including copyright statement.
  
• Standardized file naming convention. Each photographer has a different method for organizing their digital images. We've adopted a digital asset management system created by Peter Krough, author of The Dam Book. We ask that all your image files follow a strict naming convention to ensure seamless integration and administration. Here's an example of our naming convention: Tinacci_070822_8644.jpg. All our images will start with "Tinacci_". The middle six numbers are the date the image was taken in YYMMDD format. The last four numbers are the unique image number given to the image by the camera. My RAW files come out of the camera as "IMG_8644.CR2" with the digits incrementing per image.
  
• Your images cannot be listed with other stock photography agencies. Again, what sets our site apart from others is our exclusive content.
  
• Model and property releases for images featuring real people and places that are clearly identifiable. We never want to sell an image that features someone's likeness or a that of a property, corporate brand or intellectual property without written permission. While we don't ask that you submit the releases when you upload images for sale, we do ask that you have them available should we request them from an interested party.
• Have an existing mailing list you think would be interested in hearing about TrellisCreative.com? We can create promotional discount codes for your customers and even send out email notifications for you.

Ready to get started? Let's chat... call Jason Tinacci at 707-287-5397.

1. We create an account for you
   
2. Send us a CD/DVD of your images formatted as high-quality JPEGS in two sizes: Web: 800x600px @ 72dpi and Print: min. 8x10" @ 300dpi. We'll also send you instruction on how to manage your images through the administration website.
   
3. Supply us a short bio, contact info and photo for your Photographer Profile.
   
4. *Optional* supply us an email list you would want to notify of your stock photography and we'll create a promo code.

Thanks for your interest! We look forward to working with you.

Sincerely,

Jason Tinacci
Founder, TrellisCreative.com