What is the difference between public and hidden images?

• Public images are shown on your profile and throughout the site, with no restrictions. This helps your images to be seen by others, and gets some good exposure for your work.
• Hidden images do not appear on any pages UNLESS they are entered into contests, in which case they may appear within the context of that contest's pages. Hiding some of your images can be suitable if you have sensitive work, want to keep a lower profile on the site, or want to only show a particular subset of your work to other members.

Where will hidden images be shown?

Hidden images will not be shown anywhere on your Photocrowd profile page, or on any of the communal pages such as Best Images or Newest Images.

They will however be shown in the context of contests that you enter them into. At that point they will be shown as an entered image, will be rated by the crowd if that contest has crowd-rating, and will be assessed by the judge if there is a judge. Your hidden image’s result will ONLY be displayed within the context of that contest and not across the rest of the site. For example, hidden images that do well will not get shown on the awards page of your profile or on the Best Images page.

If you enter a hidden image into a Photography Award, it is usual that the image would only then be shown on Photocrowd if it is given an award of some kind.

Please note that hiding an image on Photocrowd does not mean that you are the only person that can access that image. Every image uploaded to the site has a publicly accessible URL, and so whilst the image may not be shown on any pages of the site, the URL could be accessible by other means, for example if the URL is shared.