Ok, so you want to participate in one of the Pxleyes photoshop contests and don’t know where to start? Here’s a quick and easy introduction on how to get started.
Before Participating…
First things first! Before participating in any contests, it is important to read the FAQ and Guidelines! Yes, it’s a long and boring text, but it will certainly help you to have more fun and get more out of your stay here!
Step 1: Determine Contest Level
First of all, if you’re a new member, you will have to start with beginner or any-level photoshop contests.
PXLEyes works with a level-based system. The more you win, the higher your level will become. Everyone starts with level 1. Advanced contests on PXLEyes are for people with higher levels.
On the screenshot below, you can see where the required level is mentioned. “any-level” basically means: everyone can participate, no matter what level.
When a contest says level “10+” it means that your level has to be higher than 10 in order to participate. When it says “10-“, your level has to be lower than 10 in order to participate.
After you found a contest you want to participate in, simply go to the contest page to download the image if it’s a source contest, or read the theme if it’s a theme contest.
Step 2: Navigate To Upload Page
So you’ve selected a contest with an interesting source image or theme, you made an entry for it and you want to upload it. Simply click on the contest thumbnail and you’ll end up on the contest page.
There you will see a button with the photoshop feather on it. Simply click on that to go to the upload page.
Step 3: Upload Your Entry
On the next screenshot you can see how the upload page looks.
- 1. Give a title to your entry.
- 2. Describe some things about your entry. For simpler entries in a beginner contest, you can describe here how you made your entry.
- 3. Click the browse button and select your image from your harddrive.
- 4. In this comments box, you can chose: public (all comments from other users can be seen by everyone), private (only you can see comments from other users on your entry), no comments (other users are not allowed to comment on your entry, only vote).
- 5. Save full resolution. It is recommended to do this, so people can judge your work in more detail.
- 6. It is always recommended to upload a step by step guide. A step by step guide shows all your intermediate steps, from when you started to work on your entry until the final result. To do this, save all important steps as seperate images when you’re working on an entry. Note that In a beginners contest it is allowed to skip the step by step guide for simpler entries. However, it’s important to mention all techniques used
in the description box in this case! - 7,8,9,10,11. If any of these things are present in your entry, you can tick the boxes. If you do so, people can vote on them. This is completely optional, if you just want your entry judged on a 1-100 scale only, simply leave the boxes unticked.
- 12. If you decided to upload a step by step guide, you’ll need to do it after your entry is uploaded. So it is recommended to publish the entry later, after your step by step guide is uploaded aswell.
- 13,14. You have to tick these boxes in order to upload your entry. Make sure your entry complies with them, otherwise your entry will be pulled from the contest.
- 15. Add extra words here to describe your entry. This is simply used for search functionality.
- 16. Finally, you’ll see 10 boxes where you can post urls. If you used other images to create your entry, it’s very important to provide links to them. It’s impossible to judge an entry properly without knowing what sources were used. If you used no external sources, you can leave these boxes empty. (The anchor text is the text that will be used for your link.)
Step 4: Finalize Upload
Ok, so all fields are ready? Simply hit the “upload image” button. When your image is uploaded, you’ll see the following screen. If you’re going to make a step by step guide, you can do so now.
Step 5: Create Step By Step Guide
The steps upload process is similar to the entry upload process. Simply describe what you’ve done in your step and browse to the step image on your harddrive. Even with the steps, you can provide possible source urls that were used. When you’re done with this step click the “upload step info” button and you’ll be asked if you want to upload another step.
Step 6: My Contests
When you’re done with all the steps, you can still make changes to your entry. Simply go to “my stuff” -> “my contests” and you will see your entry.
Step 7: Making Changes To Your Entry
Under “my contests” you can do the following things:
- 1. Make changes to your entry. For example: add sources, change description, change title, etc…
- 2. If you ticked the checkbox to publish your entry later, click this button to publish it now. When you publish an entry, it will appear on the right side of the PST website, below “latest entries”.
- 3. You can either add more steps to your step by step guide, or make a new one.
Step 8: Watch Comments And Results
And you’re done! Contests run for an average of 10 days and people will be able to vote and comment on your work… You can follow up your comments under “my contests” or on the contest page.
Good Luck!
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About MrMonty
My favourit step is ….STEP 8……I enjoy it a lot
( 231 days ago )Hi well first I just want to ask if in the contests we can use filters of any kind or is it banned? It because I use a filter called cracked and a user postted me a message telling me that I should not do that. Anyway I did not know about it. I´m apologize for do that and also you can take off my image if you want. I just wanna know what functions I can use to edit an image so this do not happen again.
Thank you for your attention and I will not use filters again xp well see ya.
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