• enter a keyword, artist name or style
• click categories listing on the right
• view portfolios by using the browse button

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I get my link added to Folioplanet.com?
How do I add a thumbnail icon next to my link?
How do I get a Portfolio on Folioplanet?
I found my link listed, how do I add a description?
I have a page on a 'Portfolio' type site, can you link to it?
Does Folioplanet have any requirements for listing?
Do you publish statistics about traffic to your site?

Questions about Stock Finder

Is Folioplanet a Representative or Stock Agency?
Does Folioplanet guarantee delivery and availability of artwork?
Does Folioplanet take a commission on stock sales?
Why do you allow Reps and individuals to have your stock catalogs on their own site, don't you want to keep art directors on Folioplanet as long as possible?
I'm an artist, how do I get my images into Stock Finder on Folioplanet?
What is Foliosearch?
How do I get started with Foliosearch?
How can Reps join Folioplanet?

Tech Support/ Lost Password

I forgot my password, can you email it to me?
I updated my listing, but it hasn't been changed on Folioplanet, what's up with that?

Uploading Images

My image is showing up as a broken icon, why?
When I try and upload I get an error telling me the file size is too big, why is that?

Answers:

How do I get my link added to Folioplanet.com?

Once you review our submission guidelines, register as a new user and then you may submit a link.

How do I add a thumbnail icon next to my link?

First log in and then go to 'Modify a Link', you will be able to purchase the Featured Artist upgrade from there. If you do not have a link listed yet, please submit your link first.

How do I get a Portfolio on Folioplanet?

First log in and then go to 'Modify a Link', you will be able to purchase a Portfolio upgrade from there. If you do not have a link listed yet, please submit your link first.

I found my link listed, how do I add a description?

If your link is already listed, Register here and follow the instructions on the 'Thanks for registering' page.

I have a page on a 'Portfolio' type site, can you link to it?

No. To keep the quality of our directory high, Folioplanet.com no longer lists "sub-domain" sites. For example: freesites.com/~mypage or myname.freesites.com will not be listed.

Does Folioplanet have any requirements for listing?

Yes, read our submission guidelines.

Do you publish statistics about traffic to your site?

Folioplanet.com recieves hundreds of thousands of hits each month, but we only track the number of people we send to individual web sites. Click on the title of any link and you will see the number of links that site has recieved.

Questions about Stock Finder

Is Folioplanet a Representative or Stock Agency?

No. We are not a Rep, we are not a Stock Agency and we do not review portfolios. If you are an artist and would like to be on Folioplanet go here.

Does Folioplanet guarantee delivery and availability of artwork?

Folioplanet does not sell stock illustration. Folioplanet provides a central place where art buyers can search through many individual's stock illustration at once. Each individual artist is responsible for the delivery, pricing and all other aspects of selling their own stock illustration.

Does Folioplanet take a commission on stock sales?

No.

I'm an artist, how do I get my images into Stock Finder on Folioplanet?

Read about Foliosearch here.

How can Reps join Folioplanet?

Reps can have a free search page if 5 or more of their artists sign up for Foliosearch. We also offer a special artist Representative Pricing plan, find out details here.

Why do you allow Reps and individuals to have your stock catalogs on their own site, don't you want to keep art directors on Folioplanet as long as possible?

Folioplanet takes no commissions. It does not matter to us where our customers are making their sales.

What is Foliosearch?

Foliosearch is the software that allows your work to be on Folioplanet, and on your own site. For details Folioplanet go here.

How do I get started with Foliosearch?

1. First, gather your images together that are available for reuse. You may want to review the contracts that you signed to make sure that you have the rights to reuse your images.
2. At this point it is a good idea to make a CD of all of your high resolution digital files so that it is easy to find the original image when a client wants to buy the image. If you are not a digital artist, or not able to scan your work in yourself, you will need to have your work scanned by a photo lab like Customprocess.com.
3. Resize your images so that they will be no larger than 350 pixels on any side, and are less than 50K in filesize. You can use Adobe Photoshop to batch resize you images, or if you have Adobe Image Ready, Mac OS 8.6 or later, you can use this OSX Photoshop 8 droplet or this OSX Photoshop CS droplet. Just drag your images onto the droplet, and Image Ready will do the rest.
4. With Foliosearch you can upload 10 images at a time. View the demo here.
5. After your images are up, you can use the foliosearch™ interface to keyword your images. Checkboxes makes this task easy, and best of all you only have to keyword your images once! The results of careful keywording can last for years as your clients continue to find uses for images that you uploaded long ago.

Tech Support/ Lost Password

I forgot my password, can you email it to me?

If your are a LinkOwner, Featured Artist, or have a Portfolio go here and enter your email address.

For security reasons Foliosearch and Foliomanager users must call us at 301.942.4850 oremail us to recover those passwords.

Lightbox users can email us or just create a new Lightbox, they're free!

I updated my listing, but it hasn't been changed on Folioplanet, what's up with that?

We update our site every day, changes will not show up immediately unless you do a search. Searches provide "live" results, so you should see you updated info when searching.

Uploading Images

My image is showing up as a broken icon, why?

By far the most common cause of a broken image icon is an improperly named file. Stick with simple names like "thumbnail.jpg". Do NOT use spaces, special characters like &, #, etc. and do not use more than one period. All images should end with ".jpg" or ".gif" and be saved as in the proper .jpg or .gif format.

The second most common reason for broken image icons is when the images are CMYK or saved as a Photoshop file. Remember to use the "Save for the Web" function in Photoshop and to name the image properly as mentioned above.

When I try and upload I get an error telling me the file size is too big, why is that?

Our software checks to make sure that images are saved as well-compressed .jpgs or .gifs in order to keep our site fast. Be sure to save your image as a "low" or "medium" quality .jpg so that it is compressed properly.