This site is created for following purposes:

• Photoshop contests: There are 2 types of contests. Contests with a given source image and contests with a given theme. Users submit their photoshopped images in these contests. Later on, people can vote on these entries to determine a contestwinner. Great prizes can be earned in these contests. Below, you can read more on how to participate.
• Art portfolio's: with your personal albums, you can organize and share your photoshop images.
• Photoshop tutorials: Improve your photoshop skills by reading our exclusive PS tutorials! Each tutorial is linked to a practice contest where you can 'test-run' your new skills.

No. Photoshop artists help making this a great website, so we will keep everything free of charge.

Yes, you can earn real money in various different ways:

• End in the top 3 of a photoshop contest. The higher the level, the more you win.
• Subscribe and win a jackpot contest.
• Challenge someone for a 1vs1 contest for a amount of credits. The winner earns the credits from the loser of the 1vs1 contest. (go to 'my challenges')
• Write quality photoshop tutorials. The higher the quality of your tutorial, the more you earn. (go to 'my tutorials')

If you have any questions or problems with registration, uploading images, ... simply send a mail. Also, suggestions for improvements are always welcome. Send your e-mails to support@PXLEyes.com

Go to the registration page and fill out the form with your desired username, password and e-mail. Registration is free and takes only a few seconds. After signing up you will receive an e-mail to activate your account, so make sure to use a valid e-mail address. (avoid using free e-mail addresses such as hotmail, yahoo, ... as they might block out certain e-mails.) Please note that multiple registrations per ip-adres to manipulate contest results will be logged. After you activated your account, you can log in and start.

When your account is active, you can start creating your personal albums in the 'my albums' section, practice your skills with the photoshop tutorials, win prizes in the contests, vote and comment on other images, ... Please make sure that all images are owned by yourself and not copyrighted by someone else. If you do have copyrighted images, you will need permission from the owner. We do not allow images with watermarks.As a registered member you can also participate in the contests.

With this card you can keep track of your history on this site. You will see the following numbers:

• Talent: your talentpoints are calculated according to how many contests you win and how accurate you vote. While your talent goes up, you can participate in advanced and pro contests to win bigger prizes.
• PXLEyes Points: your PXLEyes points show how active you are on this site. You will get extra advantages in the future when your activity goes up.
• Activity Rank: your activity on this site compared to others.
• Albums: the number of photoshop albums you have.
• Album Entries: the number of images in your albums.
• Contest Entries: the number of images you submitted to the contests.
• Votes Placed: the number of votes you placed in the contests.
• Vote Percentage: the percentage of images you voted on since you registered.
• Vote Power: this number indicates how important your vote is(min. 0, max. 3000) Please read below how votepower works.
• Comments Placed: the number of comments you placed in the contests.
• Contests 1st place: the number of contests you ended on first place.
• Contests 2nd place: the number of contests you ended on second place.
• Contests 3rd place: the number of contests you ended on third place.
• Average Score: the average score over all contest entries you ever submitted.
• Top 3 Percentage: the percentage of your images that ended in the top 3 of a contest.
• Total Credits Won: the total amount of money you ever won on this site (100 credits = $1).
• Total Credits In Account: the total amount that is not paid out to you yet (100 credits = $1).
• Thumb Up Comments: the number of comments you placed that received a thumb up. The author of an image can approve your comment if he/she thinks your comment is useful.

Apart from these numbers, your profile shows your contest portfolio (all finished contests), your albums, the latest comments you received and the latest comments you placed.

In a photoshop contest people manipulate existing images to something completely different in photoshop. Once a new image is manipulated, it gets submitted for the contest. From that point, other people can vote on the image. At the end of a contest, the image with the highest score wins the contest. We have two types of contests:

• Contests with a theme: in these contests a certain theme is given. You can make an image from scratch or manipulate an image in photoshop to match the theme. No input image given here.
• Contests with an input image: in these contests we provide you a hi-res image to manipulate in photoshop. Basically, you can do whatever you want with the image. Just try to impress as much as possible for the best results.

In most contests, you can win credits. 100 PXLEyes credits are worth $1 (USD). The higher the contest level, the more you can win. (see lower on this page). You can use your PXLEyes credits to participate in special jackpot contests, to challenge other members or make a request to payout your credits. To avoid any 'hit-and-run behavior', you'll have to meet the following requirements before requesting a payout of your PXLEyes earnings:

• 1) A balance of $20 or more in your PXLEyes account...
• 2) A minimum of 3 entries that finished in the top 3 *OR* 3 published tutorials under your name.

When you have a balance of $20 or more in your account, you can request a payout by sending a mail or PM on the forums. Usually this payout is done with paypal, but if you prefer a different method or paypal is not available in your country, simply explain it in your mail!

Each week(on thursday) we start at least 8 different contests. A few theme contests and a few contests with a source image. Apart from these regular contests, we sometimes start big prize contests and custom contests.

Most contests run for 10 days. Once a new contest starts, you have 8 days to submit your entries. After these 8 days, the contest goes into 'vote only' mode for 2 days. After these 2 days, the contests ends and the winners are announced.

Using your own images in your contest entries is the safest. For images from other sites, there are some rules.

General copyright rules:
- If there's an explicit copyright notice on the site of the image or on the image itself, don't use it.
- If the image is copyrighted in the form of a free license, you can use it if the source site clearly mentions this.
- If the owner of the image requires you to ask permission, include proof of this permission with your submission on PXLEyes, either in the description, the comments or the stepsguide of your entry.
- If you have doubts if something can be used or not, search something else instead. It's better to play safe if you want to keep your entry in the contests.
- Some images on sites don't mention anything about copyright. This does not mean it can be used by anyone for any purpose.

What else can NOT be used in your entries?
- Cartoons from magazines, cartoon screenshots from tv, cartoons from other websites, ...
- Movie posters and movie screenshots.

The best places to find quality high resolution images can be found on royalty-free stock image sites. You can find a whole list of them on our resources page.

Most contests are free for all contests, which means everyone can participate and win the credits. However, few contests work differently:

• Free For All Contests: Everyone can participate and win credits.
• Beginner Contests: Only users with a level lower than 10 can participate.
• Leveled Contests: For leveled contests there is a minimum level requirement to participate. Prizes in these contests are higher than in regular contests. Raise your level by winning contests and by voting accurately.

• 1. register for free
• 2. click on an active contest you want to participate in.
• 3. click on the 'add an entry for this contest' link.
• 4. upload your image.

Yes. Each contest has a maximum number of entries, but this is more than 1 in most cases. But remember, quality is more important than quantity!

Contest winners are determined by voting on a 1-100% scale and by voting on specific aspects like perspective or colors. Each registered user can place a vote per image and the weight of this vote is determined by the votepower of the user. Please read below how to gain votepower. When the contest ends, the image with the best score wins the contest. In case of a tie, the image with the most votes wins. The winner of a contest will be announced on our news page each time a contest ends.

Each user has votepower. Votepower represents the importance of your vote. The higher your votepower, the more important your vote. When a new user signs up, he/she starts with 0 votepower. Once the new user has 7 finished entries, he/she can start gaining extra votepower by voting accurately. Your vote counts as 1 vote when you have 100 votepower. When you reach votepower 400, your vote counts as 4 seperate votes, and so on ... A votepower of 199 or lower means your vote counts as 1 seperate vote. A votepower below 100 does not count in the final result.

The votepower algorithm takes multiple factors into account and adjusts from time to time. In general, your votepower will increase when you take the time to evaluate entries carefully and vote accordingly. It is not encouraged to just vote a 100% on the entries you like and 1% on the entries you don't like. This is not accurate voting and will result in losing votepower.

Activity points represent how active you are on PXLEyes. For every action you perform on the site, you get some points.

• Upload an entry to a contest, a challenge, a chainchop or the art grid: 50 points
• Upload an entry to an album: 25 points
• Comment on contests, contest entries, album entries, tutorials, challenges, quicktips, profiles and suggestions: 10 points
• Write a tutorial: 100 points (after approval)
• Write a quicktip or step by step guide: 25 points (after approval)
• Vote on contest entry or tutorial: 10 points
• Suggest a contest: 10 points

Talentpoints are a measurement of how often you win on PXLEyes. Your talentpoints are linked to a certain level. The more talentpoints you get, the higher your level. A higher level allows you to participate in high level contests, which have bigger prizes than the normal contests. In the following table, you can see how much talentpoints are needed to get to each level: Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 4 Tier 5 Tier 6 Tier 7 Tier 8 lvl 1: 0+ lvl 2: 30+ lvl 3: 40+ lvl 4: 50+ lvl 5: 60+ lvl 6: 80+ lvl 7: 100+ lvl 8: 120+ lvl 9: 140+ lvl 10: 160+ lvl 11: 200+ lvl 12: 240+ lvl 13: 280+ lvl 14: 320+ lvl 15: 360+ lvl 16: 440+ lvl 17: 520+ lvl 18: 600+ lvl 19: 680+ lvl 20: 760+ lvl 21: 920+ lvl 22: 1080+ lvl 23: 1240+ lvl 24: 1400+ lvl 25: 1560+ lvl 26: 1880+ lvl 27: 2200+ lvl 28: 2520+ lvl 29: 2840+ lvl 30: 3160+ lvl 31: 3800+ lvl 32: 4440+ lvl 33: 5080+ lvl 34: 5720+ lvl 35: 6360+ lvl 36: 7000+ lvl 37: 7640+ lvl 38: 8280+ lvl 39: 8920+ lvl 40: 9560+ When a level 12 contest starts for example, you will need to have 240 or more talentpoints in order to participate. Besides that there are 'free for all' contests (anyone can participate) and beginner contests(only users with level 10 or lower can participate).

Earn talentpoints by winning contests You can earn talentpoints by ending in the top 7 in a contest. The higher your entry ends, the more talentpoints you earn. Also, the higher the contest level, the more talentpoints can be earned. The following table show the amount of talentpoints that can be earned in all the different contestlevels. The horizontal indexes represent the contest level (1-25) and the vertical indexes represent the final rank (1-7) of an entry. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1 35 37 39 41 43 45 47 49 52 54 57 60 63 66 69 73 76 2 30 32 33 35 36 38 40 42 44 47 49 51 54 57 59 62 65 3 25 26 28 29 30 32 34 35 37 39 41 43 45 47 49 52 55 4 20 21 22 23 24 26 27 28 30 31 33 34 36 38 40 42 44 5 15 16 17 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 27 28 30 31 33 6 10 10 11 12 12 13 13 14 15 16 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 7 5 5 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 9 9 9 10 10 11 Example: Your entry finishes third in a level 15 contest means that you will earn 49 talent points. Earn talentpoints by winning 1vs1 challenges You can also earn talentpoints by challenging other users for a 1vs1 contest. The higher the level of your opponent, the more talentpoints you earn if you win the challenge. The following table shows how many talentpoints you win for each opponent level: lvl 1: 1 lvl 2: 2 lvl 3: 4 lvl 4: 8 lvl 5: 16 lvl 6: 18 lvl 7: 20 lvl 8: 22 lvl 9: 24 lvl 10: 26 lvl 11: 28 lvl 12: 30 lvl 13: 32 lvl 14: 34 lvl 15: 36 lvl 16: 38 lvl 17: 40 lvl 18: 42 lvl 19: 44 lvl 20: 46 lvl 21: 48 lvl 22: 50 lvl 23: 52 lvl 24: 54 lvl 25: 56 lvl 26: 58 lvl 27: 60 lvl 28: 62 lvl 29: 64 lvl 30: 68 lvl 31: 76 lvl 32: 84 lvl 33: 92 lvl 34: 100 lvl 35: 140 lvl 36: 180 lvl 37: 240 lvl 38: 300 lvl 39: 380 lvl 40: 500 Earn talentpoints by writing quality tutorials For each accepted tutorial you earn credits and talentpoints. The more complex tutorial, the more you earn.

If your website or company wants to advertise on this site or wants to have a company logo contest, you can do this by offering a valuable prize to the winner. Apart from your prize offer, sponsoring is free. Go to this page to make your request.

So, you have made some great photos yourself and want them as a source for a contest? Or you have a cool a idea for a theme contest? Go to this suggestion page and share it with everyone!

The images you made that are not meant for the contests, you can upload in your photoshop albums.

There is no limit on the amount of images in your albums as long as all images are legal and copyrighted by yourself. We reserve the right to take legal action against any illegal activity on this website.