Contest Rules and Details
Popular Photography & Imaging's
Digital Wizard Contest
Winning Photos will be published in the July 2007 issue. Cash prizes will be awarded for the Grand Prize, First Place, Second Place, Third Place, and Honorable Mention.
Before you enter, please read these contest rules:
1. To enter the contest, participants must download at least 4 (or as many as 12) of the 12 images in the Digital Wizard section of www.PopPhoto.com, and combine them, edit them, enhance them, or in any way manipulate them using image-editing software. An element of at least 4 of the provided images must be used in an entry. No images other than the 12 provided may be used, though effects contained in software, as well as so-called "filters" and "plug-ins" are permissible. You can enter more than once.
2. Entries must be received as JPEGs, either by e-mail or by mail on CD-ROM or DVD. E-mail entries must be sent to DigitalWizard@hfmus.com. Mailed entries must be sent to Digital Wizard Contest, Popular Photography & Imaging, 1633 Broadway, New York, NY 10019. All entries must include the entrant's name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Entries must also include the name of the image-editing software used. All entries become the physical property of Sponsor and will not be returned. Entries may be submitted after January 26, 2007, noon (ET) and must be received no later than March 31, 2007, midnight (ET).
3. Entries must be sized to exactly 8 inches on their shortest side, at a resolution of 300 dpi. Files sent by e-mail should be named with your e-mail address, omitting the @ symbol. (I.e., if the your e-mail address is superphoto@aol.com, the entry should be named superphotoaol.jpg; multiple entries should be named superphotoaol1.jpg, superphotoaol2.jpg, etc.) Files sent by mail should be named with your full name (i.e., JohnSmith1.jpg, JohnSmith2.jpg, etc.).
4. Contest is open to amateurs and pros. To be eligible to enter, you must be 18 years of age or older at the time of entry and a legal resident of 50 United States or D.C. Employees of Sponsor, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Inc., publisher of Popular Photography and Imaging magazine and PopPhoto.com web site ("Sponsor") and their immediate families are not eligible to enter or win.
5. The staff of Popular Photography & Imaging magazine will judge the qualifying entries and rank them in descending order from the best entry. Entries will be judged equally on creativity, technical expertise, and aesthetic value. The decisions of the judges are final. The top five ranked entries will receive the following cash prizes: #1 ranked entrant -- Grand Prize, $1,000; #2 ranked entrant -- 1st Place, $300; #3 ranked entrant -- 2nd Place, $200; #4 ranked entrant -- Third Place, $150; and #5 ranked entrant -- Honorable Mention, $100.
6. Winners will be notified via e-mail or mail on or about May 10, 2007. Winners may be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility, grant of rights, and a publicity and liability release within 14 days of notification, or alternate winners will be selected (alternate will be next highest-ranked entrant). By entering this Contest and/or accepting a prize, you agree to allow Sponsor to use your name, city and state, voice and image in connection with publication of your winning entry and for promotional purposes (except where prohibited), without review, notification or approval.
7. By entering this contest, you agree to abide by the rules of this contest and to accept the judges decisions as final. You further agree that your entry is your own original work. Submission of an entry and/or acceptance of a prize grants Sponsor, and third parties authorized by Sponsor, the exclusive, perpetual right to publish, use, edit, adapt, modify, excerpt and/or copy the entry for any and all purposes in any and all media currently in existence or hereafter developed without further compensation to you, which includes, but is not limited, the right to publish the entry in Popular Photography & Imaging magazine and on popphoto.com and to use your entry as we see fit in exhibitions and promotions of Popular Photography & Imaging magazine.
8. Income, and other taxes (if any), on the value of the prize are the sole responsibility of the winners.
9. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.
10. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any person tampering with the entry process, the operation of the web site, www.PopPhoto.com, or who is otherwise in violation of the rules. Sponsor further reserves the right to cancel, terminate or modify the Contest if it is not capable of completion as planned due to, for example, infection by a computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention or technical failures of any sort. In the event of early termination of the Contest, winners will be selected from all eligible entries received at the time of termination in accordance with the judging procedures described above. In no event will Sponsor be responsible for any damages or losses arising out of access to and use of the web sites or the downloading from and/or printing material downloaded from said site. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete or misdirected entries. In the event of a dispute concerning the identity of a person submitting an online entry, the entry will be deemed submitted by the person in whose name the e-mail account is registered.
11. Winners' List available upon request after May 12, 2007. Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Sponsor: Popular Photography and Imaging Magazine -- Digital Wizard Contest 2007/Winner's List, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Inc., 1633 Broadway, New York, NY 10019. Residents of VT may omit postage.
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