AquariumLife Aquascaping comp 2010.

For a few years now we have been having an end of year scaping competition, people submit a photo of their scape then members of the forum judge the winner via a poll. Please observe all the rules/conditions below, we will again be asking you to submit entries via email, we would appreciate if you could, to the best of your ability keep your scapes anonymous.

past years can be seen here:
2007
2008
2009


FIRST PRIZE
$200

SECOND PRIZE
$100

THIRD PRIZE
$100

FOURTH-TENTH PRIZE
You will recieve only one of the following
1 year premium subscription
2011Aquariumlife calendar
Aquariumlife cap
AquariumLife Tshirt

please note that only premium members are eligble to recieve prizes, non premium members will recieve a years premium subscription.

TO ENTER
*Email your tank photo to Admin@aquariumlife.com.au
*Before you email your photo make sure you're 100% happy with it. Once we have it we will not change it.
* Most important Make sure you send your nick/Login name along with it.

RULES
Please ensure you read and understand all requirements for this competition. Failure to follow the rules may result in disqualification.
If you have any questions about how this competition is run, please start another thread or send a private message to Aquarium Life staff.

* This competition is open to all registered Aquarium Life members.
* Only active members of Aquarium Life are elligible to vote in competitions.
* Prior to declaring a winner Aquarium Life staff will review the results and reserve the right to disqualify any entry suspected of infringing rules or interfering with the voting process.

Competition entries must be recieved before midnight on the 31st December 2010

ENTRY CONDITIONS AND REQUIREMENTS
* You may submit one entry. It must be your own work not previously entered in a competition.
* Your entry must be a single photo. No collages or multiple image entries will be accepted.
* Please choose your final entry carefully, it may not be changed after you have submitted it.
* Please size your image between 640x480 & 1024x768. Previews may be a maximum of 400 pixels along longest side.



IMAGE ENHANCEMENT RULES (what you can and can't do in Photoshop etc.)
* You may rotate, crop and resize the image.
* You may adjust brightness, contrast and gamma values.
* You may adjust levels, hue, saturation, curves or sharpen the image.
* You may add a simple border to your entry.
* You may add a small credit to your image - no username sigs please.

* You may NOT use filters, blurs, layers or other effects not specified above.
* You may NOT add any elements to the original photo.

* Any modification you make must be applied to the entire image. Enhancing specific regions is not permitted and can be detected.
* You must be able to supply the original raw image upon request from Aquarium Life staff.