CLOSED: 2.0 Advanced Competition 125

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This week's theme in detail, brought to you by last week's winner, Peter:

"Michel Vaillant is the title of a French comics series created in 1957 by French cartoonist Jean Graton and published originally by Le Lombard. Michel Vaillant is best known for driving 80's, 70's, 60's, 50's race, rally, F1, Le Mans, kart and rally cars.

Sooo... what do I want? Simple: Rally Cars on Rally tracks, Karts (the GT and Red Bull karts are also included) on Kart Tracks, European Race Cars (including Ford Mark IV and Chevrolet Corvette StingRay Racer Concept '59 and the two Chaparral standard's) and F1 cars on European World Tracks and on European City tracks, American race cars (except Ford Mark IV and Chevrolet Corvette StingRay Racer Concept '59 and the two Chaparral Standard's) on American World Tracks (the Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe '64 must be only on Daytona tracks), Le Mans cars only on... Circuit De La Sarthe.

Give a "old touch" to your photo. ;)

AND DON'T forget, must be a 80, 70, 60 or 50 race (Le Mans or Rally) car.”



CARS: See above
LOCATIONS: See above
PHOTOTRAVEL: No
UNIQUE RESTRICTIONS: See above


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Please, ensure you read and understand all requirements for this competition. Failure to follow the rules may result in disqualification. If you have questions, start a convo with me.
This Thread will answer many possible questions you may have.

  • It is recommended you host your image on ImageShack, Photobucket, or Flickr.
  • Not sure how to post a thumbnail or preview image? Read this sticky!
  • Please use a clickable-preview to full-size, not a separate text link for it;
    it makes poll creation much easier!
  • One entry per user. It must be your own work, and never previously used in a comp.
  • Do not ask other users to choose your entry.
  • Absolutely no hybrid, hacked cars, or cars obtained through such means.
  • Mark your FINAL ENTRY clearly, with red text. On H2H weeks, which side, as well.
    Unsure how to? Copy and paste the following:
    [COLOR="Red"]FINAL ENTRY[/COLOR]
  • You may change your entry once. Do it clearly; edit out your previous entry, and
    either post the new one in a new reply, or in place of the original.
  • When submitting, use either a thumbnail or a preview image, linked to the full-sizer.
  • Preview images can not exceed 500 pixels in either direction.
  • A preview image must be representative of the full-size image. Do not add effects to it.
  • Do not post "Honourable Mentions" or outtakes - just your Final Entry, that's all.
  • Winner gets to choose the following week's theme, as well as the Top 20. Every fourth
    week, the poll will be H2H style: entries must choose a "team", leading to two 10-picture,
    4-day polls. The winners from each faces off in a final 48 hour poll.
  • Winners cannot enter in their own theme!
  • The Host may ask for the original image and it must be submitted if so.
    It's recommended to save the original image (preferably in-game) until week's ends.
Failure to follow these rules will result in ignored entries and/or disqualification!

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What you may not do to a photo:
  • Alter the geometry of the car. No stickers, or body modifications not available in game.
  • Add shapes or objects from outside of GT5, signatures excepted.
  • Tying into the above: signatures only, no image titles or other typographic elements.
  • Add lens flares or "artistic" filters to image.
  • Remove items from shot (scenery, other cars).
  • Use more than 1 image (HDR, photo-stitching, multi-exposure).
  • "Creative cropping". The main "image" must be four-sided, with 90-degree, upright corners.
  • Selective car colour changing: masking different parts to create racing stripes or similar.

What you may do to a photo:
  • Crop and/or resize an image.
  • Adjust the level or curve values.
  • Alter the colour tone of the image (gradient maps, photo filters, colour balance, etc).
  • Car body colour change (all stickers/design features must remain, see "Remove Items" rule).
  • Adjust brightness, contrast, exposure, shadow/highlights.
  • Enhance shadows or highlights (dodge and burn tools in Photoshop, for example).
  • Add noise and/or diffuse glow.
  • Add a post-game tilt-shift blur, or apply a motion blur to a stationary Photomode shot.
  • Make use of Layer Blend Modes.
  • Use a Sharpening filter and/or tool.
  • Remove or modify license plates - it must be hand-drawn, no importing real ones.
  • Remove the GT watermark.
  • Add a personal signature.
  • Clean up or fix jaggies, texture pixelation, or colour separation.
  • Add a vignette effect.
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06.16.16
[20.00 GMT]
 
Competition News:
On the eve of E3, and with us hitting the big 125 milestone, I thought now was as good of time as any to make this announcement: this will be my last week as host of the GT6 Photomode Competitions. It's been a constant for over 5.5 years, but my job as Editor-In-Chief of the blog means I can't dedicate the necessary time to it.

@Nato_777 will be taking over in the interim, as he's been an exemplary pillar of the community with the competition hosting for nearly as long as I've been doing it!

There are plans afoot for the inevitable GT Sport iterations of the comps, with some changes to the formula. We'll talk about that closer to November.

I'll be popping in from time to time to keep an eye on things, and close/sticky the threads. A big thank you to Nathan for offering to take the reins, continuing to serve what's easily my favourite part of the GT community. Thank you to all of you for making these so much fun over the years.

-Kyle
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I thought I had broken rules with the colouring of it, my mistake. All back on there now. 👍 Also working on a heavy muscle car entry! :cheers:
 
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