PhotoShelter

Create your free account
Go to https://umaine.photoshelter.com. The landing page features a large tan building with white blossom trees in front of it. The UMaine logo will be in the upper left corner. Click “LOGIN” in the upper right corner. If you’ve already made an account (for example, you may already have access to UMaine’s galleries), you can enter your username and password. If you don’t have an account, you will see a text link to “create a free account”. Use that link to create your username and password and then login to the platform.
 
Navigate to the UMaine Extension gallery
If you are still on the home page, click “Galleries” in the top menu, next to the UMaine logo. You should see your invited galleries on the left side of the page which should include “UMaine Extension”. Alternatively you may see a button for invited galleries in the middle of the page. Use either option to find the UMaine Extension gallery and click on it.
 
Find photos
There are multiple Remsberg collections categorized by year and a staff collection (currently just a placeholder). You can either browse the different collections or use the search bar at the top right. When you type your key word(s) in the search field, simply hit enter to perform the search (there is no “search” button). Note that you can toggle the AI search feature on or off. If AI search is off, Photoshelter is searching the metadata attached to each individual photo. If AI search is on, Photoshelter is using its AI function to scan the visual content in each photo. For example, if you search for “Cumberland” without AI search, your results will include all photos that include the word Cumberland in the metadata (for example, boxes of blueberries taken at a farm located in Cumberland). If you perform the same search with AI turned on, it’s not using the metadata and therefore can’t find the blueberries photo based only on the visual content. While AI would be good for straightforward visual cues like “sunset” or “smiling faces”, words that aren’t likely to be in the metadata, it has a harder time with more abstract key words like Cumberland.