Flickr members are now invited to submit a portfolio of ten images for consideration to become a contributor to the Flickr Collection on Getty Images. 'If your work catches the eye of a Getty Images editor you'll receive an invite via Flickrmail to join the Flickr Collection on Getty Images,' says Getty.

In the past, Flickr members could set their account settings to reflect that they wanted to be contacted by Getty Images, but could not proactively present a portfolio of photos for consideration, according to Getty.

Once a member has submitted 10 images, the Getty creative team will evaluate them on style, subject matter and technical skill. 'If some or all of the photos - or other images from your photostream - are selected for the Flickr Collection on Getty Images, you will receive an invitation,' says Getty.

For more details, visit www.flickr.com/groups/callforartists.

The partnership was struck last July, allowing Getty to license selected images from Flickr (with the photographers' permission). In return, Flickr agreed to make images available for licensing only through Getty.

In the eight months before launch, Getty's editors browsed through more than three billion images from Flickr's 47 million members in order to make their selection. 'Our editors have chosen 147,000 Flickr images to date for the collection,' said Andy Saunders, vice-president of Creative Imagery at Getty, in March. 'We have more than 10,000 images actually accepted.'

Once the images were selected, photographers received an invitation, via Flickr, to participate in the collection. In order to have the selected images included, photographers were asked to ensure that they had model releases as well as high-resolution versions of the images. They were also asked to sign a contract giving Getty exclusive licensing rights for the selected pictures for two years.

Flickr members were then asked to transfer the images to the Getty website.