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UPDATE Gallery Guidelines - Updated Dec 2024

VickiStegall

VickiStegall

Administrator
Designer
CHEERY O
Hi everyone!
  1. All layouts uploaded to the Oscraps Gallery must contain at least 50% Oscraps products *that are currently in the store (a template equates to 15%) - see FAQ Sheet in Post #2 for more information.

  2. Please credit ALL the products you have used, for a non-Oscraps designer please mention their name but not their store and do not link to a non-Oscraps designer

  3. Please ensure that any photo you use is NOT copyrighted and if applicable, provide the appropriate credits for it - as of Dec 12 December 2024, please credit the source of your photo see FAQ below.

  4. Please post only 5 layouts per day.

  5. The size of the layout has changed so ALL layouts should be around 250kb - as of December 15 2024
    Layout dimensions can be in a square format ie. 600px x 600px OR 800px x 800px OR any rectangular format
    Please disregard the 1000x1000 1mb noted on the Gallery Home page!

  6. No outside linking (please don't post links to products or services sold outside of Oscraps)

  7. Please refrain from "drive-by layout dropping" - meaning do not post layouts in our gallery to simply fulfill your CT requirements. Please join us in the forum and introduce yourself and participate in challenges so we can get to know you better.

  8. Oscraps reserves the right to delete any layout at their discretion not following these guidelines above.

  9. Oscraps is considered a friendly, family environment where we want everyone to feel comfortable and safe, therefore, no nudity, obscene, racist, unlawful, abusive, discriminatory, offensive, defamatory and inciting political or religious material will be tolerated.
Refer to FAQ Sheet below for further information.

Please indicate below that you have read and accepted the new guidelines.
Looking forward to meeting our new members!
Vicki & the Cheery O's
 
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Gallery Guidelines FAQ SHEET​

All layouts uploaded must contain at least 50% Oscraps product *that are current in the store (please see point #3 below). A template equates to approx 15% of products used.
  • If you are using an Oscraps template for instance, you still need to use some Oscraps product to bring the percentage up to at least 50% Oscraps content. Non-Oscraps products can be used but please make sure that the min. 50% of Oscraps products used on your layout are products that are *currently available in the store at the time of you posting your layout.
  • The 50% Oscraps product guideline only applies to general gallery posting. Please follow individual challenge requirements which normally are using 80% Oscraps products currently available in the store. Designer Challenge requirements are governed by the designer but to actually post in the gallery it needs to meet the 50% Oscraps products requirement.
  • *The Freebies that are available to you in the Oscraps HAPS newsletter are okay to use in your layouts, even though not all of them are available in the store. Please credit the freebie like this "Oscraps Haps Newsletter Freebie - insert Product or Designer Name" when uploading your layout to the gallery.

    As an example, in one of the newsletters there was a cluster which I created using the Oscraps Live Live Mega Collaboration kit. You would credit this as "Oscraps Newsletter Freebie - Live Life Mega Collab"

Please credit ALL the products you have used, including non-Oscraps designers but not their store.
  • When uploading a layout to the gallery please credit all products used, including non-Oscrap products. For non-Oscraps content credit the designer but do not name or advertise any other store except for Oscraps.

Please ensure that any photo you use is NOT copyrighted and if applicable provide the appropriate credits for it.
  • Be aware that a lot of images from sites such as Pinterest and Google Images are subject to copyright and should not be used in a layout and uploaded to online galleries, including the Oscraps gallery!
  • Starting from Dec 12th 2024, all photos should be credited with its source as shown below:
    • Photo: My own (this applies to photos that you, your family or your friend as taken)
    • Photo: Stock/Pixabay (this applies to all stock type photos from places like Pixabay, Unsplash etc. these ae considered to be uncopyrighted and free to use).
    • Photo/Image: From Products listed. (this applies to any photo or image you have used that came with the products you used to create your layout.)
  • All images owned by the US government are in the public domain as are those for many US States. Until 1 Jan 2025 for works before 1978, works published before 1929 or created for hire before 1904 are in the public domain. Here is a helpful link: https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-duration.html. So for these types of photos you could add the line Photo: Public Domain

Please post only 5 layouts per day (24hr period).
  • Your uploaded layout is counted as one upload no matter how many other galleries you add it to.
  • After the layout is uploaded you can use the Edit link under the layout to add your layout to additional galleries if you wish.
  • To replace just the image/layout (and not any text etc), use the Change Media link and not the Edit link.
  • Note: In the new gallery software, your layout is NOT automatically added to the Members Gallery, you need to add it yourself.
  • Please find more details on uploading layouts to the gallery in our help section NEED HELP WITH OUR SITE
Oscraps reserves the right to delete any layout at their discretion.
A message via conversation will be sent to the member uploading a layout not fitting the updated gallery guidelines, asking them to either remove the layout or edit the content. If no reply is received after 7 days then the layout will be removed.
  1. From February 1 2021 layouts that don't meet the updated gallery guidelines will be removed and a Conversation sent to the member, advising that their layout was removed.
  2. The member is most welcome to re-upload their layout after editing.
  3. Repeated offenders will unfortunately be banned.
Please remember that you are posting your images on the internet.
A reminder that while the Oscraps gallery isn't a giant platform like Facebook, it is a public forum so your images will be indexed by search engines like Google, etc. If you do not want something to be forever preserved on the web, please don't post it. Oscraps does not have control over that aspect of being on the internet.
 
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Read and understood 50% in the gallery

Does this include the challenge requirements or are they still to have 80% Oscraps products? If the change applies to the challenges then hosts need to change that in the challenge rules.
 
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