How to Make a SweepWidget Photo Voting Contest

In this article, we will show you how to make a stunning photo contest with SweepWidget! You will learn how to let photographers upload a photo or video. Then, you’ll see how your audience can view, sort, and vote on their favorites. Once the contest concludes, you can either have the person with the most votes be considered the winner. Or, you can have it so you randomly or manually selected the winner from a judging panel. Let’e start!

View a live example photo voting contest

Create the photo contest

First, you’ll need to click on the New Photo Contest link in the left nav bar of your SweepWidget account.

Next, you’ll start with the Entry Form Info and fill out the basic details for your contest e.g. title, description, start/end date, rules, prizes, language.

After that, click on the Photo/Video Upload Options tab. From here, you’ll select Upload a File From Device button.

Next, you can say what the photographer must upload e.g. a picture of mountain, a photo from an event, a picture of their cat, etc.

After that, you can optionally set custom form fields for the photographer to enter in the Login Fields tab e.g. address, age, etc.

In the Design tab, you can also customer the style of the widget.

The next important step you’ll want to do it click on the the Voting Settings tab. In here, you can customize the settings for the people who will vote on the photos/videos.

Lastly, you can also customize the security settings in the Security Settings tab.

Enter the live photo contest

Now that the contest is live, you can view it! Here’s an example of how the landing page might look.

You’ll notice an Upload a Photo button in the top right. This is for photographers to click on so they can upload their photo or video.

From here, they can enter their name/email and upload their photo or video.

How do people vote?

For people who want to vote, they can simply click on any image in the gallery and vote! They’ll be required to log in VIA Google, Facebook, or X. You can set how many times each person is allowed to enter and if social media authentication is required (this is recommended to prevent cheating / duplicate entries from the same people).

That’s the basics! We hope you enjoy the SweepWidget photo contest tool!