Contest Rules Page
Just a few guidelines for contest submissions:
1. To participate in Cutcaster’s contest you must have an active account with Cutcaster. Sign up for Cutcaster here if you don't.
2. You must hold the copyright to the photograph and/or vector you are submitting.
3. You must have a signed model release for any person or people in the photograph
4. Your contest submission must be within the contest theme
5. The photograph and/or vector must meet Cutcaster current submission standards and guidelines.
6. Once a photograph and/or vector has been submitted and accepted you will not be allowed to withdraw that submission until after the contest.
7. The contest does NOT require you to submit only exclusive content. All content can be submitted on an exclusive or non-exclusive basis and you will be paid out accordingly. It doesn’t matter if your content is marked off as exclusive or non exclusive. The judges will not look at that.
8. We never take ownership of your content.
9. All photographs and/or vectors must strictly be followed by Cutcasters contributor agreement: http://www.cutcaster.com/info/contributor.
10. Submissions to the contest will be open for 30 days from the contest start which will start on Oct. 20th and go through Nov. 20th.
11. The winner(s) will be announced no later than 3 days after the contest closing date and will be announced on the Cutcaster home page, as well as, an entry on the blog and a personal email to the winner(s). The winners will be paid out immediately.
12. 3D will be considered in the photographs contest and not in with vectors.
Cutcaster.com reserves the right not to choose any of the submitted entries for general reasons such as: poorly keyworded, quality, noise, purple fringing, out of focus, poor composition, copyright/trademark infringement, poor lighting, distorted pixels, or images that are not relevant to the contest theme.
How Cutcaster will choose the winners (1 $50 winner in the photography category and 1 $50 winner in the vector category for a total of 2 winners).
Photograph category:
1. Quality – Submissions with the best quality will be moved to round 2 for judging. The better the quality photograph, the better your chances of winning. Quality control will consist of: lighting, noise, artifacts, pixel quality, composition, focus, purple fringing and KEYWORDING. Poorly keyworded content will not be accepted.
2. In round 2, the winner will be chosen based on overall theme/concept and uniqueness by the Cutcaster editorial team.
Vector category:
1. Quality – Submission with the best quality. Quality will be measured by: details (the more the better), style, execution, uniqueness, and complete compositions. We will also be checking to make sure all paths are closed, there are no unnecessary shapes or points in your outline, all fonts have been converted to paths/outlines and that the vector has not been autotraced. Poorly keyworded content will not be accepted.
2. The highest quality submissions will then be moved to round 2 where the winner will be chosen based on overall theme/concept, uniqueness and complexity by the Cutcaster editorial team.
GOOD LUCK!!!