Photo Submission Guidelines

We encourage each of you to submit your photos for future issues of Gift Retailers Connection.  We can't promise to use all of them but make every effort to use as many as possible.  Sometimes we will hold photos for future issues which will feature a theme that your photo represents.

Check out Coming in July/August to see what we will be featuring in the next issue.  But don't let that limit you.  Send whatever photos you may have.

We will occasionally have a photo design competition available for everyone to enter with prizes awarded.  Watch the magazine for these opportunities.

All photos should follow these guidelines:

1. If at all possible, send images in jpeg format straight from your  camera. Do not resize them before submitting.  If you have the ability to cut out the design from the background and enhance, feel free to do so.  Do not add any borders or text to the photos.

2. Do not crop

3. All gift basket design photos should be “unwrapped”.  We will occasionally use wrapped designs but unwrapped ones are preferred.

4. Use a white or light background when taking photos

5. Include all vendor sources used for each photo and a suggested retail 
    price.

6. Send a name for each photo (or we may assign one)

7. Include your name, company name, location, and email address with each design

8. Gift Entrepreneurs reserves the right to edit photos.

9.  Please note that Gift Retailers Connection is a copyrighted publication.  Photos submitted and accepted for use in that publication cannot appear in another publication without written permission without violating copyright laws.  Since you own the copyright to the photo itself, you may use it on your own website, just not submit it for publication elsewhere.

10.  We are unable to use all photos submitted but try to use as many different designers as possible in each issue.

11. Submit photos to editor@giftretailersconnection.com