Projected Image Submission Guidelines

Images must be submitted on or before the last day of the month. All images must be submitted by email to sopadigitalsubmissions@gmail.com . Images submitted must follow the guidelines listed below.

Two images in the General Category, two images in the Assigned Category and two images in the Creative Category (This category will not be judged in 2008, but will be for display in the meetings). A maximum of six images may be submitted each month, two in each of the three categories.

CREATIVE CLASS depicts subjects in a substantial departure from realism through the use of various nonstandard techniques and controls. Examples are abstracts, derivations, diffraction, distortions, black light, bas-relief, impressionism, symbolism, montage, dye coloring, color key, multiple exposures, solarization, posterization, tone separation, surrealism and unreal color. In essence, when the obvious purpose of such techniques are to alter reality to the point where the pictures is non-objective or abstract in quality.

1) ENTRY BY EMAIL
a) When making your image submissions to the Electronic Imaging Division your
email is your entry form, you are required to do the following when entering:
i) In the subject line of your email put only the complete filename (see #3 below on image file naming conventions) of your image.
ii) Attach only ONE image per email. A maximum of 2 images per class may be submitted per entrant, per competition.
Please send separate emails for each entry.
b) Send email with image attached to the specified email address.

2) IMAGE FILE SIZE
a) The images must be in jpg format.
b) The maximum dimension is 1024 pixels.
c) Resolution set at 72 dpi.
d) Images may not be larger than 350kb; a jpeg compression of 9 or 10 usually is best.
e) A maximum of 6 images may be submitted per entrant (2 per class).
f) The images must be sent on-line by email to the specified email address.
g) Entries must be sent one at a time.
h) You will only receive one receipt per day for your submissions.

3) IMAGE FILE NAMING CONVENTIONS
a) The image filenames shall use the following convention:
i) For GENERAL Entries (G)
FirstnameLastname_YourClubsInitials_Title_G.jpg
(example: JohnDoe_SOPA_PrettyFlower_G.jpg)
ii) For ASSIGNED SUBJECT Entries (A)
FirstnameLastname_YourClubsInitials_Title_A.jpg
(example: JohnDoe_SOPA_PrettyFlower_A.jpg)
iii) For CREATIVE SUBJECT Entries (C)
FirstnameLastname_YourClubsInitials_Title_C.jpg
(example: JohnDoe_SOPA_NicePattern_C.jpg)
b) Change each of your entries file names before attaching and sending as per
above convention (each file you send must have a different “title”).