To enter your images for the Club Contests
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Three Easy Steps
- Title your digital photos (jpg images only up to 4 images)
- Note: JPG is the only type of digital image that is acceptable (not BMP, GIF,TIFF, etc.)
- Place a space between each word, all CAPITAL letters for title, and type in .jpg extension
- Ex: NATURE TULIPS by John Doe.jpg
- Resize your photos (using your photo editor or similar software*)
- Resize the image to 1024 pixels x 768 pixels
- Horizontal side no larger than 1024 pixels and vertical side no larger than 768 pixels
- No adjustment of DPI (dots per inch) resolution of photos necessary
- NOTE: Each properly resized image will be approximately 1/2 MB (megabyte)
- E-mail you photos Send all in one e-mail To:dpi-compete@naples.net
- Include in the body of the e-mail:
- Name of club: DPI-SIG
- Name of maker: your first and last name
- Photo title (of each image)
- Class / Division: A (Advanced) or B (Beginner) / Color or Mono
- Indicate number of images entered
* Examples are: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Elements, Adobe Lightroom, Faststone Image Viewer, etc
The Club offers competitions to its members four times a year. The fourth competition consists of the images awarded honors during the first three competitions. For the year-end completion, all members who have won honors in the first three are invited to participate.
Club Competition Schedule
| # | Competition Date | Judge | Submission Deadline |
| 1 | __/__/____ | __________ | __/__/____ |
| 2 | __/__/____ | __________ | __/__/____ |
| 3 | 10/14/2010 | TBA | 09/30/2010 |
| Year End | __/__/____ | __________ | __/__/____ |
BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR PHOTOS, review the above procedures.
- Only members in good standing with DPI-SIG may compete
- Five-year Rule: Images must be taken within five (5) years
- All images must be the work of the maker.
- Previous awarded Images may not be entered again.
DPI-SIG Club Competition Guidelines
- Advanced amateurs or professionals (Class A)
- Beginning amateurs (Class B)
- Class “B” competitors can be advanced to Class “A” as their work improves.
Two (2) competition classes:
- Color
- Monochrome
- Each class / division will be judged separately.
- We accept 4 images irrespective of the number which are in color and monochrome.
- There will be a single judge from outside of our club for each competition.
- If there is no judge available or if the Club chooses not to select an outside judge, then three (3) members in good standing will be selected to judge a competition and will excuse themselves from judging their own work.
Two divisions for competition:
- Technical Quality
- Impact
- Artistic Merit
Scoring-Images will be judged on:
- Image Entry Labeling, Sizing, and Deadline
- Each image file should be labeled as follows:
- Class-Category-YourName-Title
- Example: “B-Monochrome-JoeSmith-Egrets in Flight”
- Each image should be sized 1024 X 768 pixels
- All four images MUST be JPEG (.jpg) files
- and be attached all submitted images as a single e-mail entry to: