Having taken your location images, the next step is to send them to us on a CD-ROM or DVD, clearly marked.

• Please send your images as JPEGs!
  Other image types are considerably larger, for no appreciable increase in quality. As an example, an image as a TIFF is likely to be about five times the size of the same image as a JPEG.

• Not too small!
  Your images will end up on our web site as 640 × 480 pixels, or 720 × 480 pixels, depending on the format of your camera (see diagram below), but please send them larger, at least 1000 pixels (it's pixels that matter, not DPI).

• Do not recompress!
  JPEG images use an extremely efficient compression technique, and do not need to be subsequently compressed again using another package, such as ZIP, Stuffit or BinHEX - recompressing them like this is likely to increase the file size.

• Do not package the JPEGs!
  We prefer simple, straightforward JPEGs, not embedded in other packages such as MS Word, Photoshop, PDF or Powerpoint. If you are providing captions, put them in a separate text or Word document on the disc.

• Mark the disc clearly!
  We do receive a lot of CD-ROMs, and obviously take good care of them, but an unmarked CD-ROM does stand a chance of becoming separated from its paperwork. Please use our on-line registration form, which will assign you a temporary registration number: marking your CD-ROM with this number will make life much easier for us.

• Sign the form!
  Our on-line registration form (available here) enables you to tell us about your property, but, very importantly, it gives us permission to place your images into the web library. Please print it out, sign it, and enclose it with your images.

Charges

Location Works makes its money from success: we earn when a location is used. Our web site is free to browse, we don't charge a membership fee, nor per click. We can only raise an invoice when one of our clients actually confirms a shoot or event. So we only do well when we are successful at what we do!

Conversely, the cost of running and managing our web library is kept to a minimum. Obviously we do have to charge, since we pay staff to process images and upload them to our web site. We put effort into ensuring each new location is presented as well as can be, that it appears in the right location categories, and that each of the images is tagged with the right keywords - our web library is finely tuned to meet the needs of our clients, who are location professionals needing the best location quickly.

If you qualify, we may invite you to join our exclusives club. Otherwise, alas, there will be charges...

But here again, we do our absolute best to keep costs to a minimum, and perhaps even waive our charges until you get your first job (i.e. our charges are deducted from your earnings on the first job).

Please, after completing our online registration form, send your pictures - or just a few samples - to register@locationworks.com and we'll get back to you letting you know what our charges may be.

One of the reasons that we keep our charges low is because it is not possible for us to offer any guarantees: the presence of your images in our library cannot guarantee that Hollywood will come knocking. The location business is too fickle for that, and our advice is not to register with any company that tells you otherwise.

Not all of the locations we receive do end up in our web location library - for a start, it takes time to prepare the images and upload them. However, even if your pictures do not end up on the website, our clients will be given every opportunity to consider your property.

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