TUTORIALS

Competition Entry Tutorials

Here you'll find some useful information for creating your entries.

How to Check Your Awards Entries

 
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00:00 Introduction
00:35 Preparing Your Images for Submission
00:53 Checking Document Dimensions in Photoshop
01:28 Verifying Colour Profile
01:51 Ensuring High-Quality JPEG Format
02:10 Checking Metadata
03:02 Troubleshooting Common Issues
06:26 Final Recap and Submission Guidelines
07:25 Conclusion and Contact Information

 

How to Resize your Images

 
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00:00 Introduction to Image Resizing for Awards
00:35 Understanding Competition Rules
01:10 Resizing Images in Lightroom
01:51 Exporting Images from Lightroom
03:04 Resizing Images in Photoshop
03:46 Saving and Finalizing Images in Photoshop
04:19 Conclusion and Excitement for Entries

How NOT to Strip the Creation Date of Your Entries

 
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0:33 What is a Creation Date?
0:55 Why do we need to see the Creation Date?
1:06 How the Creation Date can be stripped from the jpeg
1:30 How to export with the metadata from Lightroom
2:31 How to save with the metadata from Photoshop
4:26 What to do if your JPEG doesn’t have the Creation Date
4:55 How to manual verification of your entry
5:26 Quick recap
5:50 Goodbye and good luck!

What Makes an Award Winning Image?

 
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00:00 Introduction: What Makes Images Competition Worthy?
00:12 The Myth of No New Ideas
00:31 Uniqueness and Emotional Response
01:33 Technical Perfection in Portraits
01:59 The X Factor
2:35 Attention to Detail
03:58 Judging Criteria Overview

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