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The Crestock Photoshop Contest 2006 is now over

How the Contest Works

This contest is free to enter – and each week for four weeks, the judges will pick five photos from our image library. Your entry must be based on one or more of these photos, but you are free to do with them whatever you like. You may also use other elements in your design, as long as one of the source images can be recognised as a central part of your design.

There will be one forum post per week containing the images. The entries will be automatically uploaded to this thread, and the voting process will begin.

Please note that to enter the competition you MUST submit your entry via the 'submit your entry here' links on the contest pages, NOT via email or as individual forum posts.

Only registered members will be able to vote, and if you have an image in the contest, you will not be able to vote for any of the entries. (Any votes you cast before you become a contributor will automatically be cancelled if you submit an image to the contest.)

The Judges and the public will cast their votes, and the entry with the highest score will win. The winning entry will hold a high level of creativity, technicality and incredible visual impact, be it pure eye candy, or maybe with a twist of humor.

So amaze us or make us laugh – or both. It's up to you and your skills, creativity and imagination – But whatever you do, don't miss out on the action!

Full Rules and Conditions

1. The competition is free to enter.


2. The competition is open to any and all Adobe Photoshop user, at any skill level. However, employees and staff of Crestock, judges of the competition, and their families are not eligible to enter.


3. Contestants must sign up in the forums to join.


4. Contestants may submit one entry per week and submitted as follows:
   
   • An image size no larger than 1200px-wide or 1200px-high @ 1Mb Max. JPEG Only.
     
   • Must be based on one or more of the stock photos chosen by the judges
     


5. Contestants may submit for all 4 weeks.


6. The judges will cast their vote on a scale from 'no vote' to 10.


7. The public will cast their vote on a scale from 'no vote' to 10.


8. From week 3: the judges' votes count 60%; the public votes count 40% (previously 50/50 split).


9. The judges' votes will be based on the following criteria:
   
   • Creativity
   • Technicality
   • Visual impact


10. The submission with the highest score wins. If there's a draw, the judges' vote gets preference.


11. We reserve the right to remove any public votes deemed suspicious or insincere. Our decision in this respect will be final, no discussion or correspondence will be entered into.

The winner will be announced in the forums each week, so make sure to check back!

Deadlines & Entry Rights Information

All entries must be submitted before each week's deadline. Once an entry has been submitted it cannot be changed, so make sure you submit the correct and final version of your image.The deadlines can be found here.

Crestock.com assumes all entries are original creations and are the works and property of the entrant, with all rights granted therein. However, Crestock reserves the right to freely publish the winning entries online or in other media. Crestock.com is not liable for any copyright infringement on the part of the entrant.

Modifying, enhancing, or altering someone else's existing artwork does not qualify as an original creation - excluding Crestock stock photos.

Disqualification

Entries not complying with the contest rules are subject to disqualification.

We want this to be a fair and just competition, so we will not tolerate systematic attempts to increase the score for own entries or to rate down competing entries. We have a comprehensive system in place to log and monitor voting patterns. Winning entries will be manually reviewed, and entries where voting abuse is detected WILL be disqualified.

In plain English: you cannot win the contest through vote-rigging, so please don't spoil your chances of winning by resorting to unfair means.