CLOSED: Secret Santa Competition Week 88

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Further explaination of the theme as described by zzz_pt.

"Take 2 cars for a romantic ride... and have fun!!!"


Cars: Any Premium Cars.
Locations: Any track you want.
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, send me a Private Message.

This Thread will answer many possible questions you may have.

  • Entries for the competition this week must be sent to the Judge zzz_pt Via
    Private Message and not posted in this thread, any pics posted in this thread will not be
    considered for the poll.
  • Your PM must consist of a preview image no bigger than 500px at the largest side with a
    direct link to the full size image.
  • Your first entry will be your last, you will not be allowed to change your entry so be happy
    with it.
  • One entry per user. It must be your own work, and never previously used in a competition.
  • Do not use a photo from your Gallery or post your photo shoot in your Gallery until after
    the competition (and poll if you made it) has closed.
  • 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.
  • Winner chooses the following week's theme and becomes Judge for that week.
  • Winners cannot enter in their own theme!
  • The Judge will select their favourite 15 entries and PM to the Host for the poll.
  • The poll entries will then all be hosted by me so that links cannot be traced to the owner
    of the photo.
  • 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.
  • It is recommended you host your image on ImageShack, Photobucket, or Flickr.
  • It is also recommended to turn on the "privacy" of your entry image. Flickr users will need
    to provide the judge with a direct link to the fullsize image when set to private as the link
    used with the Share option won't be accessible to the judge/host.
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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.
  • Add a signature or personal watermark.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • Scale or enlarge rims.
  • Remove or modify license plates.
  • Remove the GT watermark.
  • Clean up or fix jaggies, texture pixelation, or colour separation.
  • Add a vignette effect.
Failure to follow these rules will result in ignored entries and/or disqualification!
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Monday 04.02.13
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^ hehe that would be coll :D


Seriously, 3 entries. :S I don't know is this already happened but 3 entries in a week is weird.
 
I'm coming! ;) But seriously, seems that lately less and less people participate in comps, especially this week. :crazy:
 
Entry sent ..not completely satisfied but I haven't had much time to spare
 
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My personal entry for the SSC has been sent to zzz_pt right now... (that's how long I can write such a simple thing :D)
 
thanks : )

Nathan recommend me to keep this comp open for another 24h :)
 
I have to close 1 hour sooner than 20:00 GMT (I have to go out to hospital right now...)

So: Competition Closed.

Thanks everyone for participating (very nice entries...I'll be sending the poll to you Nathan as soon as I back home and have some minutes to do it).
 
:S Something happened to my message inbox... I delete all my SENT items and I lost all you entries in my INBOX... I don't get it. I have 18 messages in the Inbox but none of them are the entries. They all disappeared!

I'm sorry for this. I really don't know what happened. :S Please send your entries to Nato_777 directly (since we have just 13 entries you all make into the poll).

I did sent 2 or 3 to him, but my box got full and I had to delete some sent messages :S

It's been a bad week for me (my father is in the hospital since last week)...so I'm no sure if I made some mistake. I'm really sorry for this situation. :/
 
🤬 happens! Sorry to hear about your father, I hope he gets well soon.
 
Thanks guys - I have 11 of the 13 entries now, I'm still missing DarkR's and another one (which I don't know who it belongs to). I will most likely just post the poll once I receive DarkR's entry so as not to hold up the proceedings too much.
 
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