- Before you start the image upload process, please read the How to Enter section of the site, and the Categories page.
- Please read the rules and check that your images are eligible.
- Then read the content of this page
Image sizes for uploading
Uploaded images for competition entry should be in jpeg file format at resolution 72dpi. The maximum file size for uploaded images is 3 MB at 72dpi (this will be lower than the original image size and resolution). Please make sure that the image you are uploading is no longer than 2000 pixels along its biggest size at 72dpi. If the image is bigger the system may attempt to upload it, but it will not then show in your entry. If you have this issue with an upload, please check the dimensions of the file you are trying to upload – some files can be within our 3MB limit at 72dpi but be larger than 2000 pixels along the longest size, and this can cause upload issues.
Finalist high res images for all categories – the ORIGINAL images (not the files you upload) must ideally be high enough resolution to be printed at at least 45cm (a minimum of 5000 pixels) along longest length at 300dpi. If you are unsure about this, please contact us.
Scanned images – if you have shot your images on negative or transparency and then scanned them, you can still upload them for any category except Smart Shot.
The online entry process
Once you are ready to proceed, please register and login or, if you are already registered with us, login to your account. IMPORTANT: If you were registered for a TPOTY award before 2021, you will need to re-register as we introduced a new upload system in that year. If you registered for the 2021, 2022 or 2023 TPOTY awards, your login should still be valid.
Once logged in, follow the instructions on screen to enter the awards. Once your payment is received (young TPOTY is free to enter) you will be able to upload your images.
If you need to amend an uploaded image (once you have completed that submission), please contact us.
A reminder re digital manipulation
You may use digital manipulation to optimise an image, and you may crop an image but you are not permitted to add or remove key elements of the composition. Brightness, contrast, colour balance can all be adjusted. Dust spots and minor elements etc. can be retouched. Images can be sharpened before printing.
Manipulations which could realistically be achieved in a darkroom will be accepted but the judges have the discretion to reject any image which has been, in their opinion, over-manipulated, removing the integrity of the original image.
No AI generated images will be accepted or eligible for an award or prize.
Composite or montaged images, from more than one original image are not eligible – this includes images shot at different exposures/dynamic ranges and combined out of the camera. Images stitched to form a panoramic image will be accepted provided that the entrant declares, at the time of submission, that the final image has been produced in this way. Multiple exposures ‘in camera’ is permitted.
Entrants who are shortlisted will be required to provide the original image file (RAW or jpeg as shot) and highest resolution version of their image for final judging and for the exhibition, if selected.
Where an original jpeg is provided, it must contain the original camera metadata and the judges may ask for the frame before and the frame after the shortlisted image.
By submitting your entry you are confirming that your image/s are eligible under our digital manipulation rules. If they are subsequently discovered not to be, they will be disqualified.
Our sponsors and partners
It would not be possible to run Travel Photographer of the Year without the support of our sponsors and partners, and we are hugely grateful for their involvement each year. Click the logo to learn more about each of Travel Photographer of the Year’s sponsor and partners.