Documentation index
Every guide organized by section.
Getting started
- Creating an accountA user account on Picstar is your public profile as a photographer. From it you can enter contests, join associations, compete in leagues…
- Setting up your profileOnce your account is created, you can complete and update your profile at any time. Go to Settings and open the General tab.
- Contacting PicstarIf you can't find the answer in the documentation, write to the Picstar team from the contact form.
- Asking PixelPixel is Picstar's AI assistant. Ask it how something works and it answers from the manual, linking the article each answer comes from.
For photographers
- Joining an associationFrom the Picstar home page you can explore the associations registered on the platform. Each association has a public page where you can…
- Entering a contestFrom the Picstar home page you can see the available contests. You can browse active contests and filter them to find the one you're…
- Entering photography leaguesA league is a recurring photography competition organized by an association, made up of several monthly themes. Unlike a one-off contest…
- Viewing your results and awardsAll your activity on Picstar is recorded on your public profile, visible to any user of the platform. To access it, go to the menu and click…
For association administrators
- Creating an associationAn association is the space from which photography contests and leagues are organized. It has its own public page where photographers can…
- Setting up the associationFrom the admin panel you can edit all the association's details and configure billing. Go to My associations → the ⚙️ gear icon to access it.
- PricingCreating and running your association on Picstar is free. See what each plan includes and how paid contests work.
- Billing and paymentsTo be able to charge membership fees or paid contest entry fees, the association must connect to Stripe, the payment platform integrated into…
- Managing administratorsAn association can have several administrators. This is useful when more than one person needs to manage contests, configure the association or…
- Managing membersFrom the association's admin panel you can view, add and remove members, as well as check their subscription status.
- FederationsA federation brings together several associations. Both its own members and those of the associations that make it up take part as members in its social contests.
- Creating a contestA contest is a one-off photography competition organized by an association, with categories, jury and awards. Unlike a league, a contest…
- Creating a paid contestPaid contests let you charge participants an entry fee. To publish them you need two things: purchased tickets and having…
- Creating a leagueA league is a recurring photography competition organized by an association, made up of several monthly themes. To create one, go to My associations,…
- Creating a paid leagueA paid league works exactly like a free league, with the difference that participants must pay an entry fee in order to…
- Viewing contest participantsView the full list of participants in a contest, choose which columns to show, sort by any of them and download the data as Excel or CSV.
- Contest toolsDownload the results, the participant list and the photographs of a contest, and send invitations, all from a single panel.
- Remote contest votingRemote voting lets each juror vote from home independently. The Salon Chairman is responsible for closing the process…
- In-person contest votingIn-person voting takes place in a physical room. Unlike remote voting, in this mode only the Salon Chairman can access the…
- Voting for a league in remote modeVoting for a league works similarly to a contest, but with one key difference: results are managed by theme (one for each…
- Voting for a league in in-person modeIn in-person voting for a league, the whole jury gathers in a room and the Salon Chairman is the only one who manages the voting from their…
- Downloading the photographsHow to download the photographs entered in a contest or a league theme as ZIP files, filtering by awarded or selected works.
- Voting offline and rehearsing the voteDownload the vote before the event to vote in a room without wifi, and rehearse the in-person vote with the real contest before judging day.