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Photo service for Napa County has been discontinued and will be discontinued for all counties within BAREIS service region as of May 31, 2007.

Photo instructions are found on your input sheets under "Photo." You may choose one of the following, when adding your listing to the system:
Y – Take primary photo Choose this option, and the BAREIS photographer will automatically take a photo of the property. The first photo is free of charge.
N – No photo requested No photo will be taken. The listing will appear without a photograph.
S – Photo submitted You will take responsibility for providing BAREIS with a property photo. You can load a digitized photo yourself by following the directions below. To submit a non-digitized photo, please write the MLS# on the back of the photo in ballpoint pen (no felt-tip or rolling-writer pens) and mail to the address below. The first photo loaded by BAREIS is free of charge, any subsequent photos loaded by staff will be billed quarterly at $3.50 per photo. 

Loading Photos on the Rapattoni MLS system

The following instructions may help aid in loading a photo onto Rapattoni.

When you upload a picture to the MLS, if the picture width exceeds the following limits, the software automatically reduces the size of the picture proportionately.

  • Photos must be in JPEG format
     

  • The photo file name should be the MLS number. Do not include any hyphens, spaces, dashes, commas and periods (other than the period before "jpg"). This is how a file name should appear - 20312345.jpg

  • The maximum width for property pictures is 400 pixels and  300 pixels high
     

  • The maximum width for personal (agent) pictures is 200 pixels

If your picture width matches or is less than the maximum, the system does not resize it during the upload process. Picture dimensions are listed in pixels, not inches, because they are displayed on screen rather than printed. MLS pictures have a resolution of 72 pixels per inch.

After inputting a listing and clicking on Submit, a message will appear stating that you have successfully loaded the listing onto the MLS database and give you an MLS number. Underneath the message are headings that you can choose to make additional changes to the listing and add a Broker Tour and/or Photo.

To load a listing photo - click on Upload under the Pictures heading. Next, click on Browse. This opens the files on the computer from which to select the photo to be loaded. Once the photo has been located, highlight the File name then click on Open, and then click on Upload Picture.


Submitting Non-digitized Photos:
You may submit your own non-digitized photos by sending them to the address below. Be sure to write your name, listing address and MLS# on the back of the photo in ballpoint pen.

Mail all photos to:
Attn: Stephanie Merrill
BAREIS MLS
153 Stony Circ., Ste. 200
Santa Rosa, CA 95401 		Email your photos to:
stephanie@norcalmls.com
To email photos, use JPEG format no larger than 400 X 300 or 65k. Use the MLS number as the file name (e.g., 9800xxx.jpg) and send it as an attachment.

Please direct MLS photo questions to Stephanie Merrill, 707-575-8000 x122 or 1-800-776-5252 x122.

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