Searching

The Photoline Archive offers two modes of Searching its records - Quick Search and Advanced Search.
Quick Search is available at the upper right of any page. To use, type in your term and press ENTER or click on QUICK SEARCH.
Quick Search will then scan the database for every instance of your search term and display it. For instance searching for "F" will show every instance of this, including inside image descriptions, photographer names and the like.

Advanced Search is also available at the upper right of any page, to access it click on ADVANCED SEARCH.
The Advanced Search page will then display, letting you search specific areas of the archive for your search term. For instance, searching "F" in "Locomotive ID" will only search for Locomotives with the character "F" in their ID.

Both Quick and Advanced searches allow for spaces or no spaces in search terms. For example, searching F13 will return results including F13 and F 13 and visa versa.

Browsing

The Photoline Archive can be browsed by Collection (a series of photos attributed to a single person or organisation) or by clicking any of the images on the home page.
The best way to view the archive is via the Search functions, which will yeild you specific results.

High Resolution Downloads

The Photoline Archive provides High Resolution copies of photos in the archive where possible. Due to the cost of providing these, we limit all Registered Users to ten (10) downloads per calendar month.
If you require more than this, we offer additional downloads after paying a small fee on our Subcriptions page, with a range of options depending on how many additional High Resolution images you may require.

Uploading

The Photoline Archive relies on its users to contribute photos from their historic (pre-2006) photo collections.
To Upload an image to the Photoline Archive, you first must be a registered user of the site. You can register by Clicking Here or from the Login page.
Before uploading, be sure to read thoroughly the terms to which you are agreeing to share the image.

You Must
• Have Permission to Upload the Image
• Not treat the Photoline Archive as a Cloud Service
• Grant the Photoline Archive specific rights in regards to using the image and;
• Grant the Photoline Archive the ability to charge for access to the high-resolution copy of the image.

If you agree to the terms, you must check the checkbox to acknowledge you have agreed to them, and then you will be presented with a box to select your image for upload.
Standard Users are granted ten (10) uploads per calendar month. See 'User Account Types' below for further information.

Once the image has uploaded to our Server, you will be presented with a form to fill out the image details. All of the fields are optional, so if you do not have that information you do not need to add it.
Once completed, click the "Add Details and Continue" button at the bottom of the form.
A new page will load, asking you to select or verify the Creative Commons Copyright Type you wish to attribute to this image. Select the relevant type then at the bottom of the form click "Apply License and Add to Archive"

Your image will now become available to users of the Photoline Archive.

User Account

Once Registering with the Photoline Archive you will be able to Login by clicking Login from the top menu.
The Login page asks for your username and password, enter these values and click "Login".

Once logged in you will be taken directly to you User Account page. From here you can make changes to your account details (E-Mail Address, Name(s), Password) or Delete your account by clicking on the button labelled "Click Here To Make Changes" below the welcome information.
Below this is displayed your account information, including your account type - see 'User Account Types' below for further information - and how many uploads you have remaining for the calendar month.

You will also find a "Subscriptions" panel. This panel displays how many high resolution downloads you have remaining for the calendar month and provides information on how to get more from the Subscriptions page if required.

User Account Types

In order to manage usage of the Photoline Archive, we have created three different "User Types", they are as follows:
• Standard User This user is the typical user of the archive, with a small collection of images they wish to add. They are limited to 10 uploads per month.
• Advanced User This user has a large collection of images they wish to add, they have unlimited uploads to the archive per month.
• Researcher The Researcher account is for users that have an extensive historic collections they wish to add to the Archive OR for those with a research background. This account allows users to comment on photos in the archive to discuss what is in the photo, or any inaccuracies with the data included, and to suggest improvements to the record.


From the "user Account" page a user of any type can contact the Photoline Archive administrators and request a change to their account by clicking on the "Click Here to View or Change Account Types" button on the User Account page.
On this page, a user can select which type of user they wish to have their account changed to, but must provide a reason why this change is required.
The Photoline Archive administrators will then approve or deny this request at their sole discretion.