University Marketing and Communications provides countless visual assets every year to many departments at Michigan Tech. We make these visuals available to our community via PhotoShelter, a digital asset management platform that allows faculty, staff, and students access to the best images we have to offer.
Public Access
Public access to image galleries is limited to curated galleries featuring the best of the best images and campus events with broad appeal, such as Winter Carnival and Commencement Ceremonies. We highly encourage using these images for university presentations, news stories, publications, and more. Requests for off-campus access are handled on a case-by-case basis.
PhotoShelter Instructions
Sign In
- Go to the image database landing page.
- Campus members with a Michigan Tech username and password should log in using the button in the top right corner.
Search
The search function on the landing page allows you to search by image name, date, and keywords for photos and videos that are visible to you based on your permissions. Click the button next to the search bar to activate AI search functionality, which will let you search based on image recognition for items and faces.
For campus users who are signed in, a wide selection of assets are available to view and download. For public users, the search on this page will show images available in the public galleries, such as Best Of photo galleries and large events like Winter Carnival and Commencement.
Galleries
The Galleries Tab, located at the top left of the screen, offers another way to browse the images available to you. Instead of searching, you can look through the folders available to you, organized by categories and colleges.
Image Details
When you select an image, the righthand side of the screen will show details about the file. This includes the name of the file, copyright information, when the photo was taken, the image size, and keywords that have been added to the file. Keywords can be clicked directly to search for more assets tagged with the same keyword.
Downloading
When downloading images, you have the option to download entire galleries with one click using the Download All option at the bottom of the screen. You can download select files by following these steps.
- Hover over each image you want to download and check the selection circle.
- Click Download on the popup selection menu that appears on screen.
- A dialog box will prompt you to select the image format and optionally crop the image
in the interface to save you from needing to do so afterwards.
- Please note that for Modern Campus CMS use, download the JPEG - XL (4800 px) size.
Workspaces
Workspaces are collaborative folders that you can create to quickly access photos from multiple folders all in one place. You do not need to create workspaces to download images, but often times projects done in collaboration with UMC will use a Workspace as a central location to share and approve images.