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COMPETITION RULES 2007-2008

 

SLIDE COMPETITIONS

  1. All slides must be correctly spotted, titled and bear the authors name. Titles may be read out during projection.
  2. Unless otherwise stated all entries must be handed in to the Competition Secretary at least one meeting prior to the competition date.
  3. Members may enter up to a maximum of 4 slides in each competition with the exception of TOP 20 see rule.5.
  4. Main competitions that are connected to the Annual Colourslide Trophy shall be judged by a method that will yield five top placings. 1st Place shall be awarded
    10 points, 2nd Place= 7 points, 3rd place=5 points, 4th Place=3 points and 5th Place=1 point
  5. A maximum of 9 slides (3 in each subject) may be entered in the TOP 20 SLIDES Competition. A Panel
    of 5 members will award points out of 10 to each entry. The member with the highest aggregate total will be awarded the trophy

 

PRINT COMPETITIONS

    TOP 20 PRINTS

1.     The competition will consist of 5 rounds held throughout the season

2.     Members may enter up to a total of 3 images in each round

3.     Images should not have been used in any previous MIPS competition or a

Previous round of TOP 20.

4.     Print size shall be a minimum of 24 sq.inches (150cm) and a maximum of 48 sq

     inches (311 sq.cm)

5.     Mounts should not exceed 12x10 inches (300x250cm)

6.     A panel of 5 judges made up of club members will judge each round and each judge shall award each image marks out of 10. Judges may not award points to their own entries.

7.     All rounds of the competition will count towards the Peter Cowper Memorial trophy.

8.     Closing dates for entries are as published in the programme.

 

    MAIN COMPETITIONS

1.     Members may enter a maximum of 3 prints in each competition

2.     Prints must be mounted. The minimum mount size is 12x10 inches and the maximum size 20x16 inches

3.     Main competitions may be judged by club members or a visiting judge. In all cases competitions shall be judged to yield 5 top placings. Points will be awarded as Slide rule 4. In the case of a tie each entry shall receive full marks for that place.

4.     All points will count towards the Annual Print Trophy

 

   PRINT/SLIDE OF THE YEAR

1.     Members may enter a maximum of 3 prints and/or 4 slides which may have been used in previous competitions throughout the current season

2.     The competitions shall be judged by a visiting judge

3.     The winner of the competitions shall be awarded the Print/Slide of the Year trophy

 

 

Preparing Digital Images for Projection

This procedure is based on Photoshop, but other image editing progs. will have very similar facilities.  The Society’s projector displays an image of 1024 pixels wide by 768 pixels high (XGA) and is calibrated for sRGB colour space
1. Edit image in your editing programme and crop as desired.  Do not resize yet, but “Save As” in an appropriate file for your masters, using a lossless format such as PSD or TIFF.

2. Convert the image colour space to sRGB (if not already in that colour space)
With the image open in Photoshop 7 or CS, choose Image > Mode > Convert to profile
With the image open in CS2 or CS3, choose Edit > Convert to profile
In Convert to Profile dialog box select as follows:-
Destination Space ........................ sRGB IEC61966-2.1
Engine ........................................... Adobe (ACE)
Ensure that Black Point Compensation is ticked
Ensure Flatten Image is ticked to flatten any layers and eliminate any channel masks

3. Adjust Image Size in Pixels
Choose Image > Image Size
In Image Size dialog box select as follows:-
At the bottom left ensure that Constrain Proportions and Resample Image are both ticked
At top enter 1024 as pixel width.  If this results in pixel height becoming more than 768 then change it to 768, and width will reduce in proportion.  Ignore figures in Document Size.
At the bottom, select method for resampling image.  Bicubic Sharper is optimum for reducing image size, Bicubic Smoother for increasing image size.  If your programme does not have these options use Bicubic.

4. Check Image Mode.  
Choose Image > Mode and ensure settings are RGB color and 8bits/channel

5. Save and Name File in JPEG

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