Lucas... here is how the process works
--You upload a new image for screening to be accepted or not based on the criteria...
On A.net home page, you click on PHOTOS > UPLOAD YOUR PHOTOS
another sub-menu will appear... ignore it and just click Upload Your Photos. The one link in the sub-menu you should memorize or refer to very often is:
http://www.airliners.net/faq/rejection_reasons.php
--After agreeing to the rules page that comes up, (if you don't, you have to either close the browser, the tab or click on a new link or bookmark) you will receive the upload page
--MAKE SURE YOU SELECT A FILE in the file browse field. If you don't, A.net does NOT remember any of your entries and you will have to reload the page from scratch again.
The most important point here is to fill out as much as possible. Most important is to get the registration and airport code correct.
The database will auto-fill most of the details for you correctly. If not, I suggest you DO NOT TRY to do it on your own until someone has shown you how to do it the first few times. Either ask here or ask in the A.net forums.
The DATE of the image is VERY IMPORTANT to fill as it will not do it for you.
Adding a remark is encouraged but absolutely no necessary (encouragement is from me, not A.net)
Select whether or not you want to WATERMARK your image or not (I encourage you to do this and place it somewhere on the image where it isn't too distracting)
Give the page a once-over and hit the big long submit bar at the very bottom of the page and let er rip!
The resulting page lets you verify the information and double check everything.
It also VERY IMPORTANTLY gives you an opportunity to further categorize the image being uploaded such as:
Night Shot
Cockpit View
Tail Shot
Cargo Plane
Prop Plane
Bizjet
etc. etc. be careful and take your time. I suggest you look at already accepted photos of the same registration and select the same categories that were selected for that other image.
Once you're happy, hit the add button once again and
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The wait begins. Once the image is screened, it will be either ACCEPTED or REJECTED.
If ACCEPTED, it will go away from any queues and live in the main database. It will now expose its unique ID and live among the rest of the photos as any other photo. It then begins a life of collecting views. Each time your photo is viewed, it gets demographic and other metadata information tagged with it.
If REJECTED, the photo is placed in a special TEMPORARY rejection area of the site and will be there for about a week or so before it AUTOMATICALLY gets DELETED from the A.net system. This area is useful to see the categories you selected as well as any messages the screeners left for you to know why it was rejected.
--TO EDIT and RE-UPLOAD the same image, you must think of it as a COMPLETELY BRAND NEW upload, ignore the previous rejected image altogether.
--The RE-UPLOAD function, as Pete stated, is solely for RE-UPLOADING a freshly and BETTER edited version of an ALREADY ACCEPTED photo in the database. I would NOT make this decision lightly... if the new image is found to be of worse quality, it will be rejected and your chances of the original being retained are in danger. I assume this would be useful for old scans or photographs that could be better edited today with better software and tools.
I hope that helps ... feel free to ask. That is the reason for this forum
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