Doctor Photo Gallery Guidelines & Policies

All uploaded photos MUST:

• Have proper patient consent for online use.

• Reflect the doctor's personal work administering a medical treatment or procedure

• Reflect the core treatments offered by the doctor's specialty designation and board certification

• Contain photos of only one patient per upload with a maximum of four comparable before and after views (e.g. before and after side view and before and after front view)

• Be less than 6 MB in size and in .png or .jpg format

• Comply with RealSelf policies, guidelines, and terms of service

Photos and captions will NOT be published if they contain:

• Unnecessarily exposed genitalia or breasts

• Graphic photos of minors (under age 18)

• Promotional materials, such as patient testimonials, special offers, self-promotion, website URLs or conjecture regarding patient satisfaction

• Poor quality or resolution

• Borders, odd shapes, decorative backgrounds, digital enhancements, airbrushing or watermarks obstructing treated body area or which include website URLs.  

• Personally Identifiable Information (PII) including file names, names, titles or physical features unrelated to the procedure. 

RealSelf reserves the right to:

• Block Personally Identifiable Information from photo submissions

• Crop or edit photos to remove unnecessarily exposed genitalia or breasts 

• Remove photos that we determine, at our sole discretion, to be inappropriate and/or in violation of the RealSelf Photo Guidelines or the RealSelf Terms of Use.   

• Modify these guidelines at any time without notification.

Questions? Please contact us at expert@realself.com or 206-624-9357