Share your breathtaking photo with other photographers

Do you have a breathtaking photo that you wish to share with other photographers? Maybe we can help.

Now you have the opportunity to submit your photo with your watermark to BlueMelon. Your photo may appear in such places as the preview account, preview slideshow, facebook, or similar. This is an outstanding chance to present yourself and your photography for free. Just send your presentation shot to photographs@bluemelon.com and include a note that we can use it on bluemelon.

New Plans are here

Continuing in our efforts to simplify our services and make them even faster and nicer to look at, we have improved the subscription program. When you renew your plan, sign up or subscribe for additional services now, you will be offered all the options in one place.

Now you need only to subscribe for a storage plan to get the basic functionality. Additional features can be purchased in optional packages; each package is apropriately named and contains the respective tools. You can subscribe for either the Customization Package or the Business Package or both of them.

Furthermore, with the new system of subscriptions, you can sell your photos starting at 75 USD per year. The whole comparison with pricing is available at the Feature Overview.

New and improved Single Photo View

Welcome to the improved single photo view. From now on, the photos take all the available space of the window – exactly as it should be – there are no advertisements, no jumping windows, only a photo and a chosen theme in the background.

Once you move your mouse or perform any other action, two simple borders and a few other options appear. After a few seconds of inaction all of these options slowly fade out.

The upper border includes navigation options including photo numbering and various other. The bottom border provides you with the title of the photo and options including statistics, "Like" or "Comment", if enabled.

The photo itself is displayed in the largest enabled size with all the protection you are used to. If the photo was commented, or featured products have been activated, all these elements are displayed in a side panel.

The improved single photo view is full of details like a mouse cursor changing to an arrow for navigation once you move it to the side or the option to click the picture to return to the album view.

Wire Transfers availabe for Payouts

Photographers can now request their payout also via wire transfer. BlueMelon charges $45 fee per each wire transfer.

This option is thus especially suitable for photographers requesting large payouts. Depending on your PayPal fees for receiving funds and your bank's fees for incoming wires, wire transfers could be a better option for amounts larger than $2000, but you have to check your fees to calculate the exact amount.

Of course, we continue our free PayPal service.

Export Visitor Registrations as CSV

Following our user´s suggestion, it is now possible to export CSV (Comma-Separated-Values) files from your Visitor Registrations. You can save email, name and phone number, if included, for all your registered visitors to your hard drive at once.

The feature is available by going to "Visitor" >> "Visitor Registrations". At the bottom of the page is located the "Download CSV" button that starts a downloader of your choice.

Category support added to FTP Upload

Seeing the FTP use spread so rapidly, we have decided to help it to recognize the complete album-category hierarchy.

Since FTP itself can not distinguish between albums and categories as it knows only folders, the only way to go was to use a fixed prefix for categories. We have chosen the prefix (CAT). Now, thanks to the prefix, you can work with your complete category and album structure. This prefix is displayed via FTP only and is not a part of the category name.

This improvement makes it possible to create an album in the correct category and upload photos to it without even opening the bluemelon site.

Here is a list of what you can do with FTP now :

• Create new albums and categories
• Rename albums and categories
• Move albums and categories
• Delete empty albums and categories
• Upload to any of your albums

To create a new category, you must use the category prefix (CAT) to inform the system that you are creating a category and not an album. The prefix will not be included in the category name outside the FTP client.

Please note that creating or moving categories or albums within an album will not work. Categories or albums can only be created in a category.

Also, please note that uploading is possible only to albums. Uploading to a category will result in an error.