1x is an online photo gallery and social community. What makes 1x different from most other photo sites is that every photo displayed has been selected by a professional curator. Only 1/20 photos uploaded are published, which has resulted in a gallery of world class photography. Many of the exceptional photos published on 1x can be bought as premium quality prints, delivered right to your doorstep.

Photographers published on 1x benefits from wide exposure with thousands of views on every photo. Magazines, photo agencies, galleries and big multinational companies, have found photographers on 1x and we receive a lot of requests about buying photos which we forward to the photographers. Many famous photographers who don't normally participate in photo communities have joined thanks to the high standard and vast exposure. We even offer personal homepages to showcase any work not selected fot the gallery.

Learning is one of our most important values. Since there are so many recognized and talented photographers on 1x, you will learn from the best. We have a unique critique forum, with especially assigned "senior critics" who provide expert feedback on your work. There is no better way for developing as a photographer than gaining honest critique on your photos. Our moderator team makes sure there is a high intellectual standard in critique and give tips about how to give feedback to others. The long, in-depth discussion at 1x, you rarely see on other sites.

1x is also a vibrant community, with an active forum where you can discuss photography or anything on your mind. We have many social tools like chat, messaging and a wall. It's a truly international community with more than 180 nationalities represented. On 1x you will make new friends from all over the world. Many of our photographers have met each other in the real world as well on regular meet-ups and become friends for life. Click here to join, its free: 1x.com/join

1x is a company owned by Ralf Stelander and Jacob Jovelou, based in Uppsala, Sweden. Send an email to support[at]1x.com, if you wish to get in touch with us with any general inquiries, business proposals or other questions.

Register an account, it's free, and send the photographer a personal message by clicking on the "Send mail" button below the presentation picture in the photographer's profile. If you are unable to reach the photographer, send an email to support[at]1x.com and we will help you to contact him/her.

Many of the extraordinary photos published in our gallery can be bought as prints to hang on your wall. What makes our prints special compared to other sites or regular interior design stores is that you won't find these kind of photos in other places. All photos are carefully selected by a team of curators, like in a very exclusive photo gallery, and the photos published are absolutely world class. If you buy a print from 1x you have a unique arts item, which you are not likely to see on someone else's wall. We give personal attention to every customer and follow up on every purchase to make sure that our customers are satisfied.

The three covers displayed at the front page of 1x are always available as prints. Click the "Prints" tab in the top navigation to browse our thousands of prints offered for sale. You can search by different categories, colors, sizes or make a search for virtually any keyword, just use your imagination. Click on names of artists to see all prints by a certain artist. You can also find prints by one of our photographer by opening up his/her profile and click on the prints tab there. If a photo published in the gallery is offered for sale there is a "Print available" button below it.

Prints are offered in four different sizes from small to extra large, to make it as simple for our customers as possible. They are printed on real matte photographic paper in premium quality. There is a 1/2" or 1 cm white border on the prints for easy framing.

We currently ship to the USA and EU.

Prices start at $49 / 49€ click here to browse prints! 1x.com/prints

Don't hesitate to send an email to support[at]1x.com if you have any further questions about prints!

Unlike many other photo sites, 1x uses professional labs, which print for photo exhibitions in galleries and museums. We are not using a standard solution, instead we have a personal intimate relationship with our selected labs, where every print is given extra time and care. To ensure top notch quality, the photo is first proofed by an 1x expert, proofed a second time by the staff in the lab and at last carefully inspected when finished printing. We print on real photographic paper using the latest state-of-the-art technique. We don't use inkjet printers at all, instead photos are exposed by lasers in huge, very advanced Lambda printers and chemically developed, much like traditional dark room developing.

Here's what one of our customers said: "The quality is absolutely upper class, compared to the fast suppliers in this genre. Colors are exactly what they are on my own display, the paper is good, quality convincing."

1x uses two respected companies for payments, Payer Financial Services and PayPal. No credit card numbers are stored on 1x servers and transactions are completely secure.

Prints are shipped in rolls and delivered right to your doorstep, usually in less than a week and 2 weeks at the maximum.

In order to offer your photos for sale as prints on 1x, you need the extra or pro membership. You only need to sell 2 prints in a year to pay for the whole membership cost. All you need to do after you have upgraded your membership is to sign the agreement and upload high resolution versions of th published photos you wish to offer for sale. 1x takes care of color proofing, printing, payment, shipping and customer service and you will receive 60% of the profit of each sold print.

We will help marketing your prints to our audience of 2-3 million monthly unique visitors and more than 100 000 registered members. We will also market prints in ad campaigns on other sites, social media and in home interior magazines to maximize your sales.

Make sure that you have the extra or pro membership, more info here. 1x.com/upgrade. Then go to "Account" --> "Print sales" to upload your photos in high resolution and sign the agreement. It may take a couple of days before your photos appear in the shop because they will first be tagged with keywords for easy searching and proofed by 1x staff. If you no longer wish to sell a certain photo, just uncheck the checkbox in "Print sales".

Don't hesitate to send an email to support[at]1x.com if you have any questions selling prints!

As soon as someone has ordered and paid a print from your earnings will appear in "Account" --> "Print sales". Earnings are paid out 4 times a year, in the last day of the following quarter. You need to have a registered PayPal account so we can transfer your money to you, go to "Account" --> "Settings" to enter your PayPal address.

Not at the moment, but we are planning to make a limited edition prints sales feature soon where you will be able to decide prices and sizes yourself. Later on, it will even be possible to print and ship them yourself on materials of your choice if you prefer that. Limited editions will not be exclusive to 1x so you can still sell the photo in other galleries, but you always have to keep track of how many copies you have sold in total, so the number of printed copies never exceeds the total number of copies in the edition.

As a member of 1x you can comment on photos, add them to favorites and collect them in albums. If you are a photographer you can upload photos to the curators and be published in the gallery if your photo is selected. Participate in our exciting discussion forums and make many new friends from around the globe. Follow your favorite photographers, ask the masters for advice about your own pictures and chat with friends about anything. Our critique forum is warmly appreciated by photographers who want to develop their skills, many of our members have found their own personal style and inner artist thanks to the help of fellow photographers and our especially appointed senior critics. Click here to join, it's free!

The different membership levels are free, basic, extra and premium. As a free member you can try out 1x. You are allowed to upload 10 photos in total, one per week. As a paying member there is no restriction on how many photos you can have in the gallery, just a weekly submission limit. Basic members have 5 upload slots every week, extra members 10 and pro members 20, which means you have many more chances of having photos published in the gallery.

As a basic member and above you get your own highly customizable photo homepage with unlimited uploads and complete control. This is a good compliment to your 1x portfolio since you and not the curators decide exactly which photos to display there. You can even choose to use your own URL, like http://yourname.com/. Have a look at some beautiful examples here: http://1x.com/homepage/

If you have the extra or pro membership, you can sell photos published on 1x.com as prints. All you have to do is upload the photos you want to sell in high resolution, we take care of the rest. Real photographic paper is exposed to lasers in high-end Lambda printers and chemically developed. This is the closest you will get to traditional dark room developing using digital technique. The quality is absolutely top class and we are co-operating with professional photo labs in the US and the EU, printing for photo exhibitions in galleries and museums.

All prints are color proofed first by an expert at 1x a second time at the photo lab and then further inspected after printing to ensure top notch quality. 1x handles marketing, payment and shipping of your prints, you just have to wait for the money. The photographer is entitled to 60% of the profit of each sales and you only have to sell 2 prints each year to pay for the membership.

With the pro membership it will be possible to sell limited edition prints and decide which sizes and prices to offer yourself. If you prefer, you can also do the printing and shipping yourself so you can easily sign the prints and decide exactly which materials to offer.

Paying members will end up closer to the top in the list of artists at 1x, which means that buyers are more likely to find your work. Pro members will end up even higher than basic and extra. Pro members also have a special pro-badge in our forum and in their profile page.

If you want to delete your account go to "Account" --> "Settings" and click on the link next to the text: "Want to delete your account?". There is a grace period of three months before your account will be deleted, because many people change their mind. To about the deletion process, just log in to 1x before the three months are up. When your membership has been ended you will not be able to return to 1x, because the curators don't have time to review the same photos again.

Included in the paid memberships is your own highly customizable professional photo homepage with unlimited storage and full control. It's an elegant way of displaying your portfolio to clients or showing photos to friends and family. Customize the logo, the top navigation, the background, the color theme and even make your own customized pages with an advanced what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor. Rearrange the order of your photos by dragging and dropping. There is no limit to how many photos you can upload and you decide exactly which photos to display. Organize them into albums, add a slideshow to the front page and use the optional embedded blog feature to inform your visitors about recent events. The homepage is very simple to set up and it doesn't contain a single ad. Paying members with 1x hompeages have a dedicated link to it below their presentation photo in their profile at 1x. Click here to see some elegant examples of the homepages.

The storage and number of uploads to your homepage are unlimited.

The standard URL of the homepages is http://yourusername.1x.com/ but if you have your own registered domain name, like http://yourname.com/ you can link it to your 1x homepage.

Make sure you are logged in to 1x and go to http://yourusername.1x.com/ to access your homepage. Then go to "Manage" --> "General settings" --> "Publish my homepage" and then click "Save changes".

Make sure you are logged in to your homepage and go to "Manage" --> "Help" for extensive information about all features on the homepages.

When a photo has been sent to the curators it will first end up in a waiting queue. In the next step, one of the curators will transfer the image to a personal queue. The curator can select the image for publication immediately or decide that it doesn't fit in the gallery right away.

If the curator needs additional feedback, the image will be sent either to the other curators for further discussion or to a member vote, where 100 members vote on each photo. Members have the opportunity to write comments in voting, remember that any comments are not written by the official curators, because they lack the time. The voting result is helpful feedback for the curators, but it never determines the final outcome. The final decision to select a photo for the gallery or not is always taken by one of the curators.

We don't judge over good or bad. 1x is an online arts gallery and the curators select photos which fit their artistic vision for the gallery. We are looking for variation, originality, mood, story and technical quality. Variation and originality are very important, when a certain motif has been published many times, it will be very hard to get it published again. Always try to find a new creative twist when you photograph something, for example we have several different photos of the Eiffel Tower published, even though it's one of the most photographed landmarks in the world.

Grain, blur, cut arms and legs, tilts and other imperfections can sometimes enhance a photo, but there should always be a point to using a certain effect. The photos should be artistic, but they should still be photos, pure digital art is for other venues. Only 1/20 of all photos uploaded to 1x are selected for the gallery so don't feel down if one of yours are not, it doesn't mean it's a bad photo, just that it doesn't fit this certain gallery.

Cliche motifs which we have seen many times before are usually not selected for the gallery unless they are truly outstanding. Some of these motifs are butterflies, dragonflies, ants, sunsets, piers, milky water, the person in the tunnel, the lonely tree, the fisherman throwing a net and the staircase. We rarely publish photos which fit better in a family album, like kids, pets and standard travel photos. Other motifs not rarely published are sculptures or other photos of someone else's art and overly commercial photos with obvious logos in them. Please don't upload any offensive material.

Go to "Account" --> "Photo directory" to see the status of your uploaded photos.

No, photos don't get stuck. It's just that certain photos more than others require a lot of discussion in the curator team whether it should be selected for the gallery or not. A decision is usually made in less than a few days, but up to three weeks is normal.

With hundreds of photos uploaded every day, unfortunately the curators don't have the time to comment on all photos.Instead, we have provided a unique critique forum with especially appointed "senior critics" who give expert feedback on your work. There might be comments from the selection process, but they are always written by voting members, not the official curators.

To upload a photo, go to "Account" --> "Upload photos". When the photo is finished uploaded it will appear below in a section called "Not ready". Click on the photo to enter information about it and then click "Send to curators" at the bottom of the page.

First of all you must be the photographer of all parts of your photo, using stock photos or computer 3d-rendering is not allowed. The file must be in jpg-format and smaller than 2 MB. The maximum width is 950 pixels and the maximum height 850 pixels. We recommend at least 800 pixels width for landscape oriented photos and 700 pixels height for photos in portrait format.

Borders are not allowed because they won't look good in our design. Copyrights, signatures or other text in photos are not allowed either, because they're too distracting. However if the photo is selected for the gallery we automatically add a copyright banner at the bottom of the photo.

As a free member you can submit one photo to the curators every week.

Go to "Account" --> "Photo directory" and click on the photo to edit the information about it.

Once the photo has been sent to the curators it's no longer possible to delete it. As soon as a decision has been taken it's possible to re-upload. However if it was not published in the first place, it's not likely to be published on the second try if you haven't made major improvements.

If you have made major improvements to a photo you are allowed to upload it again. However it must be the same image. Photos which were not selected for the gallery in the first place are rarely published on the second try. The feature is mainly intended for cases where a curator has left a comment that you for example should remove the borders and specifically asks you to upload the photo again. To re-upload a photo go to "Account" --> "Photo directory", click on the photo and click "Re-upload this photo".

It's not possible to delete individual photos on 1x. It's like being published in a magazine, once printed photos are not removed. We don't delete non published photos either because we need to keep a history so the same photo is not uploaded twice. However if you need to remove individual photos because of copyright or personal reasons, send an email to support[at]1x.com with your request. If you delete your account all photos will be deleted.

You are not allowed to download, screenshot or hotlink photos on 1x, but linking to the page where the image is displayed is always encouraged! You can share the image on StumbleUpon by clicking in the box to the right below the photo, or make a thumbs up if someone already shared it. You can share images on Facebook by clicking the link: "Click here to share this image on Facebook". You can also indicate that you like a photo in your Facebook profile by clicking the Facebook like button directly on the 1x image page below the photo.

At the moment it's not possible to send eCards or send photos as links, but we plan to make a feature like that.

How do I gain feedback on my photos?

Unfortunately the curators do not have the time to comment photos, because hundreds of photos are uploaded every day. There might be comments from the selection process, but they are written by voting members, not the official curators. Instead, take advantage of our unqiue critique forum, with especially appointed experts, senior critics, to develop your photographic skills. Another tips is to send a personal message to a photographer whose work you are interested in ask the how they are made. You will be surprised how willingly even famous photographers are to help you out.

Besides photo critique we provide an excellent photo tutorials forum where our members describe in detail how photos are made, everything from the initial idea behind the photo to the post-processing and how it was received. They often include pedagogic diagrams of the set-ups used to take the image. This is a very good resource for getting inspiration and finding out how to take a certain type of photo. If you have any questions which are not covered by the tutorial, just go ahead and ask it right in the same forum thread or send the photographer a personal message.

Please go ahead and share how one or more of your own photos are made, it will be greatly appreciated by your fellow photographers. If you don't know what to write here's a guide with a set of questions to start with: 1x.com/forum/site-news/26321

Go to "Forum" --> "How to" --> "Photo tutorials" to find out more.

Critique is give and take. The more critique you offer others the more happy people will be to comment on your own photos. To submit one of your own photos to critique your first need to comment on three other photos. The moderators make sure that all the posts in the forum are of a very high intellectual standard, make sure that you have read the guidelines for critique before you post in the forum. Go to "Critique" and click the link "guidelines for participating" in the message at the top.

When you have commented on three photos you are able to submit one of your own to critique. Click the button "Upload a photo for critique" at the top of the page. Before your photo appears in critique the post first has to approved by a moderator to make sure it fulfills all requirements of critique. Please keep in mind that the critique forum is not intended to finding out why a photo was not selected for the gallery, but a place to gain general feedback on your photos.

Critique is completely separated from the selection process, which means that you can upload any photo straight into critique, published, not published or a photo which has never been submitted to the curators. Free members are able to upload 2 photos for critique each week and paying members 5 photos each week.

Never hesitate to write in critique. Everyone's opinion matters. Even feedback from a beginner can be very interesting to a professional photographer, because most of the people who will watch the photo are not photography experts. The most important thing when you write in critique is that you explain why and how. Tell in detail why you like something about a photo and not just that you like it, or don't like it. Just saying that you like something is a nice compliment, but it doesn't help the photographer to develop. Please appreciate that this forum is solely intended for learning.

Also please keep in mind that critique is not intended for fining out why a photo was not selected for the gallery, but receive general feedback on photos. If you do not follow the guidelines for writing critique you might get suspended from critique for a limited period of time, several suspensions might lead to a ban from the forum. It's ok to write in any language, but please provide a translation in English as well.

Click here for complete guidelines about critique. 1x.com/critique/guidelines

Take advantage of our vibrant forum, where you can discuss anything, photographic or not, with people from around the globe. Many recognized photographers are members of 1x and they are always eager to help you out with photographic problems and questions. The forum is also nice for just hanging around and having a good time. To make a new forum topic, go to "Forum", click on one the forum sections and then the button "New topic" at the top.

At the top of the index page of the forum, there are links too see all topics you have posted in our started, all topics with posts that you haven't read yet and topics which you have bookmarked. To add a topic to your bookmark open it up and click "add to bookmarks at the bottom". If someone writes in the topic you will receive a notification in the small notification icon next to the envelope in the top navigation, so you can easily stay active in the discussion and keep track of new posts. Latest topics posted in are displayed to the right in the forum index page.

Make sure that you are logged in to 1x and click "Add to favorites" below a photo. The photos will appear in your "Favorites"-tab on your profile

Log in to 1x, open up the photo and use the albums panel below and to the right to add the photo to an existing album or create a new album. The albums you have created and the photos in them will appear in the "Albums"-tab on your profile.

If you are interested in a certain photographer and want to follow his/her work go to photographer's profile can click "follow" below the presentation photo. You will now receive a notification in your "News", easily accessed in the top navigation, every time the photographer has a new photo published. When you click on "News" recently published photos by the photographers you are following will be listed to the right.

Go to "Account" --> "Profile" and click the button "Upload profile picture". It should be a portrait of you and it should be 330 pixels wide and no more than 400 pixels high. It's highly recommended that you upload a presentation picture, so people can relate to you on your profile and when you write in the forum.

Go to "Account" --> "Profile" click the "Info"-tab and then the "Edit presentation" button at the bottom. Entering some information about yourself is very much recommended and will increase the interest and traffic to your profile page and portfolio

To be able to chat with someone and see certain private information on the profile page, you need to be friends. Go to the member's profile and click "Add to friends" below the presentation photo. If your friend request is accepted you will receive a notification, in the small icon next to the envelope in the top navigation and you will then be able to chat and see your new friend's online status. If someone else has added you to friends, you will see their friend request at the top of your notifications. Click the link in notifications to go to the chat settings page to accept or decline their requests. You can see who a certain person is friends on his/her profile.

All your online friends will appear when you click the chat bar in the bottom left of the page. Click on a name to open up a new chat with one of your friends. A new conversation will pop up to the right. Click on the name to close the chat window or hold the cursor over the name and click on the small x to close it entirely. Unlike some other sites, the 1x chat is very fast and reliable and a message is never lost. If you click on "CHAT" and then "Chat settings" you can manage friends and new friends requests. By unchecking the box next to the names of your friends you can control who can see that you are online. You can also disable the chat entirely if you want to be undisturbed.

The wall is a space on a certain member's profile with information about that person's activity. The wall can also be used for writing public messages to someone, like a guestbook. Notifications are updates about others' activity relating directly to you. News is information about activity by your friends not directly relating to you.

On every members's profile there is a wall which works like a guestbook where you can write public comments or questions to the member. You can also see what photos the member has commented and new friends the member has made. On your own wall you can write so called "status updates" to tell your friends what you are currently up to or ask them a question. Your status updates will be available in all your friends news. To remove something from your own wall, hoover the mouse over the wall post and click on the small x.

Notifications is a small icon next to the small envelope in the top navigation which give you updates about others' activity relating to you. For example if someone wants to be friends with you, if someone has commented your photos, replied to your comments or written in a forum thread which you have bookmarked.

In the top navigation and in your account there is a link called "News". This contains information about the activity of your friends not directly relating to you, for example if they have had new photos published, if they have commented someone else's photo, if they have written status updates on their wall and if they have made new friends. You can press "like" or "comment" to give feedback on most of your friends' activity in news, for example if you agree with someone's status update or want to answer a question that person has sent written on his/her wall. Recently published photos by friends and photographers you follow are listed to the right in news.

You can send internal private messages to any member at 1x using mail. To start a new conversation go to someone's profile and click the "Send mail" button below the profile picture. You can also click on the small envelope in the top navigation, "Show all" and then click the button "Compose message". Start type in the name of the person your want to get in touch with and then click on the name when it appears below. To add another person to the conversation, just start typing in another name in the box after you have selected the first person.

A red badge next to the envelope icon in the top navigation will indicate when you have new messages. Click the icon to open up a menu with recent conversations, unread messages are marked in blue. Click "Show all" at the bottom of the menu to open up your inbox. Click the "Sent mail" button to view sent mails, "Compose message" to start a new conversation or "Search" to search your inbox. To read and reply to someone's message click on it to open up the conversation. Click "Back to inbox" at the bottom to go back.

On each member's profile there is a tab called "Awards". The more active you are on 1x, the more awards you can achieve and the closer to the top in the list of artists your name will appear. Supporting 1x by upgrading to a paid membership will give you a high bonus which means that your name will appear before others, especially if you have the pro-account. To find out more about awards click on different member's profiles and see what different awards you can achieve.

Make sure that you are using the latest version of your web browser. We recommend the latest versions of Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, for worryless surfing on 1x.

Click "Sign in" at the top right of the page and then click the link "Forgot password". Your username and instructions about how to reset your password will be emailed to you. If you don't receive an email, please check your spam folder. If you entered the wrong email address when you registered your account or are no longer have access to your registered email address, please contact support and be ready to send us proof of your identity.

After you have registered an account, you need to activate it to gain certain privileges like writing in the forum and uploading photos. Therefore an activation email is sent out to the address you entered when you registered. If you did not receive the activation email, please check your spam folder. If that doesn't help click resend in the message at the top of the page. If you still don't have any luck, go to "Account" --> "Settings" and change to another email address and a new activation email will be sent out automatically.

First of all, please use either Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome and make sure that you are have upgraded to the latest version of your web browser. Secondly make sure that you have upload slots left. If you are a free member you can only upload 10 photos in total for review by the curators.

It's impossible to achieve a consistent look of your photographs because every computer, web browser, monitor, calibration and not the least our eyes are different. However, always convert your photos to standard sRGB (not monitor RGB) and make sure that the color profile is attached when you save files for 1x. Use "Save for web" in Adobe Photoshop when saving files.

For deleting photos, check the "Photos" section in this FAQ. For information about ending your membership please go to the membership section.

Before contacting support, make sure that your question is not already answered in this FAQ. If your question is not covered by this FAQ please ask your question in "Forum" --> "Support". Please search the forum before asking to make sure that the questions has not been answered before. If you still don't have an answer contact the official support by emailing support[at]1x.com.

It is strictly prohibited to advertise products, services, other sites, companies or causes on 1x or contact our photographers in order to make them join other sites, in all forms of communication at 1x, without a written consent from the site owners. Such behavior will lead to an instant and permanent ban and IP-ban from 1x.

Registering multiple accounts is strictly forbidden unless you have written permission from the site owners. Using multiple accounts to vote for your own pictures will lead to a direct and permanent ban. We use special tools to monitor and detect the usage of multiple accounts. If you can no longer use your old account because you have lost the username, password, or you have some other problem, don't register a new account, contact support.

All original source files for all parts of your photos must be photos taken by you and you are responsible for having all the necessary copyrights and other rights for displaying them on 1x.

Yes, you must be the photographer of every part of your photos. You are not allowed to use stock images, creative commons images, someone else's work or computer generated material as part of your images, even if you have the right to do so, unless you have the written permission of the site owners.

All parts of an image must consist of original photographic source files photographed by you, you are not allowed to use stock photos or someone else's work even if you have the legal right to do so, without written permission from the site owners. You are not allowed to use completely computer generated graphics in your photos, every part of your image has to start with a photograph. If a photo is a montage or contains serious editing it should be posted in the creative edit category and we appreciate if you leave a quick explanation about how the photo was made. Uploading a photo with a lot of editing to any other category than creative edit, unless it contains nudity and therefore should be posted in the fine art nude category, is considered a violation of the rules. If a curator asks how one of your photos is made you are required to answer truthfully and provide an original source file of the shot. When in doubt about the authenticity of a photo, the curators might chose not to publish it, so please provide an explanation if your photo looks edited or if you have done major editing, especially if it's not apparent. Writing that a photo is unedited or "straight from camera", when in fact it's not, is considered a serious violation of the rules.

Remember to always be friendly when you write something on 1x. Never write in anger or insult anyone, make sure to refrain from personal accusations and always use a polite language. When we comment on someone's photo we must be careful not to hurt their feelings, because photos are very personal. It's ok to point out things to improve in photo comments, but don't tear the photograph into pieces unless the photographer has specifically asked for serious critique. Remember to always write some encouraging words as well. It's fine to write in any language in photo comments, but it's always appreciated if you try to provide an English translation.

When posting in the forum or on someone's wall it's very important to be friendly and polite because misunderstandings can easily happen on the internet, where we only communicate in a written language without tone of voice and body expressions. If you are writing because you are upset about something, it's better to wait a day or two, when you can view things in a more objective manner. Never write in anger, insult someone or make personal accusations.

Another very important forum rule is to stay on topic or the forum will be chaotic and confusing. If you want to discuss something not related to the topic, start a new thread instead of hi-jacking someone else's. Before creating a new thread, search the forum to make sure that the topic hasn't been discussed before, your question might already be answered.

In the forum it's not allowed to discuss individual decisions in the selection process, because someone's feelings are likely to get hurt those discussions tend to create a bad atmosphere in the forum.

You have to write in English in the forum, but it's ok to write in another language as long as you provide a translation in English.

Comments left in member voting are anonymous, which can tempt some people not to be careful what they write under the cloak of anonymity. Comments are not anonymous to site crew however, except comments on a curators's own pictures. Because of the anonymity and that the photographer can not respond you have to be even more careful not to hurt somebody's feelings. When writing comments in voting, don't hesitate to criticize, tell what you think is wrong with the picture and how it can be improved, but remember to always write something encouraging as well. Make sure that comments are actually useful and will help the photographer to improve. Just saying "good" or "bad" won't help the photographer to develop. If you don't have any suggestions about how to improve the picture, instead tell how you interpret it or explain in detail what you like or don't like about it, which can be of great value to the photographer.

In the critique forum it's utterly important and a strictly enforced requirement to always give actual useful critique. Like in voting if you have no idea about how to improve a photo, instead explain what you like or don't like about it and why, and tell about how you interpret the shot. Never write that something about the photo is just good or bad. Instead, always explain why you have a certain opinon and do so in-depth.

When you post your own images in the critique forum it's required to write a detailed description about what kind of feedback you expect, why you submitted the photo to critique and your own thoughts about the photo. Also it's a of respect not to thank someone who has taken his or her time to comment on your photo or not taking the advice into serious consideration.

A common problem in the critique forum is that someone posts not because they are interested in improving a photo, but because it wasn't selected for the gallery and now the photographer wants to hear how good it is. If one of your photos wasn't published it's a good idea to wait a couple of days before posting it to your critique to let some stem off. We understand that it sometimes hurts when one of your photos are not published, because it's personal, but please remember we don't judge over good and bad.

Don't post to critique to get photos published on 1x, but rather to gain general advice about how to improve the photo as much as possible, which in turn will probably lead to a higher chance of being published. Some photos just don't fit the gallery though no matter how much you improve them.

When submitting a photo to critique be prepared that it might be blow to pieces and never be angry when someone criticizes your work. If you can't handle that, if you don't intend to write actual helpful critique on others' photos or if you post just to get pats on your back, you will ruin it for the others who are interested in serious critique.

Every kind of discriminatory statements because of gender, race, age, sexual orientation, religion, political views or else and all types of harassment are strictly prohibited in all forms of communication at 1x. If you are being discriminated or harassed or suspect that someone else is, please report it immediately to support[at]1x.com and we will sort out the situation. Everyone on 1x has the right to feel welcome and be respected for who they are.

Violating the rules above which we have set up to ensure everyone is respected, gets equal opportunities to make themselves heard and feel confident about themselves, will lead to a warning. Also an official apology is expected to everyone who has been insulted or offended. Even if someone is offended because of a misunderstanding, it never hurts to apologize to make them feel better again. If the violator does not apologize or agree to change his/her behavior, it will lead to a ban from the community. If someone who has already been warned makes the same mistake again it will also lead to a ban. If the first violation is very severe it might lead to a direct ban without a warning. If you have been banned from the site and have a paid membership, no money will be refunded, which is part of the contract signed when you registering an account. Bans are time-limited or permanent depending of how severe the violation was. We have the ability to make IP-bans so that it won't be possible to register a new account or connect to 1x at all.

Never download, copy, take a screenshot, reproduce or use a photo on 1x in any other way without written permission from the photographer. Permission to copy pictures is completely up to the photographer, who has the copyright of the photo. Contact the photographer by logging in to 1x and leave a message on his or her wall or send the photographer a private mail using the button on the photographer's profile page. 1x.com will follow up on any reported copyright infringement and we will advice our photographers about how to take legal action if necessary.

If you see your pictures somewhere on the internet and you did not grant the site permission to display them, it's a copyright infringement. However, keep in mind that it's impossible to protect your images from being spread if they are published somewhere on the internet. As long as your name is mentioned it can actually be useful free marketing of your photos. Always demand that you are credited and a link back to the original image if you find your photos on another site. 1x automatically ads a copyright border to the bottom of your published photos and we have prevented hotlinking and downloading of images for your protection. If you want your photos to be removed or if you have not received the proper credit contact the site owner and demand that your photos are removed immediately and threaten to take legal action if they are not.

1x only claims the right to display your uploaded photos on our site. 1x.com also claims the right to display small thumbnails of your photos on other sites, like Facebook, linked to 1x. 1x does not claim the right to sell your photos if you have not decided to participate in print sales. All rights still belong to the original copyright holder. It is not possible to delete individual photos from 1x.com, but if there are legal reasons, contact support with your request and we will help you out. If you no longer wish to be a member of this community, you can request deletion of your account and all your photos will be removed after a grace period of three months, so you have the chance to change your mind.

We strongly recommend that you get signed model releases from all models appearing in your photos if you are able to do so.

We don't claim any rights over high resolution uploads, we just store them. When participating in a book project, we will specifically ask for your permission to use a certain image. If you participate in print sales high resolution files are used for printing and might be used for marketing prints. You can remove a photo from print sales at any time by unchecking the checkbox in "Account" --> "Print sales". For extensive information about the terms and conditions for print sales go to "Account" --> "Print sales" and click "read and signed the agreement" to the right. Your high resolution digital files will never be sold or used for anything else than specified in the book and print sales contract if you have signed them.

You have the right to return photo books you are not satisfied with within 2 weeks and be granted a full refund if you live in the EU. Make sure you contact support[at]1x.com, before you send anything back, so we can give you a unique returnal-code. As soon as the book is returned to us we will issue a refund. Prints are not refundable because they are print-to-demand and we can not sell it to someone else if it's returned. Memberships and homepages are not refundable because it's a service which is being consumed as soon as you start using it.

You can complain about faulty books or prints within 6 months. Always contact support by email before sending back any faulty goods and include pictures of the damages. If the the good was defect from the beginning you have the right to complain within 3 years, but you have to prove that the damage was not caused by you, if you wait more than 6 months. Please contact us as soon as possible if you discover any defects or faults with your goods, send us a picture and description of the damage to support[at]1x.com and we will solve the problem together to your satisfaction. if the print or book was defect when you received it we wil send you a new one at no extra cost after it has been returned.

You have the right to return defect books and prints within 1 month. Memberships and homepages are not refunded. Make sure to contact support[at]1x.com as soon as your discover any damages to your goods and include pictures of the damages in the email. Don't send anything back before you have contacted support and received a unique returnal-code. If the goods were damaged when you received them we will deliver new goods to you after they have been returned at no extra cost. We want our customers to be satisfied and we will do our best to help solving any problem.

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If you live in the EU, all prices includes 6% sales tax (VAT) on books and 25% sales tax on memberships and prints. For customers outside the EU, no sales tax is included in the prices displayed on the site. There is a 9,75% sales tax on prints shipped to California, USA.