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December 2005
Holidays

Awards Ceremony

General Greetings

UKTony	UKTony	Sarah	Janee	TomH

TomH	Joanne	Norma	Norma	Pernel

susan from nerk	wi	wi	Dorothy	6ferrets

GrBear	GrBear	Pauline Barnes	Joanne	Merf

Merf	Kim Sallaway	Kim Sallaway	Alice	Alice

Justlees	Justlees

Hanukkah

Janee	Caroled	susan from nerk	GrBear	Kim Sallaway

Kwanzaa

susan from nerk	Kim Sallaway	Kim Sallaway

New Year

UKTony	Norma	Norma	Pernel	GrBear

Dorothy

Christmas

UKTony	Nik	Tom	TomH	Pernel

Joanne	Janee	Bina Khosh	6ferrets	Norma

Norma	Pernel	Pernel	wi	Krisse Hill

Wannabe	Nik	6ferrets	GrBear	GrBear

Joanne	Chris I	Stephanie Hobson	Stephanie Hobson	Chris I

Marc	Marc	Merf	Merf	Kim Sallaway

Kim Sallaway	Dorothy	Alice	Justlees	Justlees

Holiday Stamp Sets

UKTony	Joanne	Joanne	Norma	susan from nerk

wi	Chris	Caroled	GrBear	Min

Kim Sallaway	Shirley	Dorothy

Entering

This Challenge is open to learners of all levels, using any digital medium. There is no charge for entering. But you do have to follow the rules.

Deadlines:

This Challenge is being announced on Saturday, 3 December 2005.
Entries will be posted beginning on Tuesday, 13 December, and all entries are due by Monday, 26 December, 2005 at 15:00 GMT.
Voting will commence on 26 December after 16:00 GMT.
All votes are due by Wednesday, 28 December, at 15:00 GMT.

See the full rules.

Why should you do this?

To get experience
Force yourself to do some art
Fun & excitement
Feedback from others
The Trophy!

Naming Files

Please name your images in LOWER CASE (<--that isn't lower case) as follows:

Begin with the category in lower case:

g -- General Greetings
h -- Hanukkah
k -- Kwanzaa
n -- New Year
x -- Christmas
z -- Holiday Stamps

Add a zero 0.

Give a serial number. So if this is your 2nd entry in the New Year category, you will name this entry n02.jpg.

Note: If you do not name your files correctly with the category letter, I will guess what category the entry should go into. If I can't guess, then your entry may be disqualified. If it is discovered that you have put your entry into the wrong category, your entry will be disqualified or moved, at my sole discretion.

Sending Files

Please use Challenge Entry as your Subject line.
ATTACH (do not embed) your jpg files to an email.

Check your images by clicking on the attachments before you send, just to be sure that you're sending the right one!
In this email, tell me the name you would like to use for your entry, when I put the names on at the end of the Challenge.
Send to me at the address on the slip of paper below. You may send all your images in one email, or you may use separate emails.

Clicking this paper will fill in only the Subject on your email. You must fill in the address yourself. That's a zero following my 2nd e, and there is no "y" in "janee." (I do this to foil the spambots and it works beautifully!)

Challenge Guidelines for December:

The myJanee.community Message Board will work just as I describe HERE. Please note that posting your statement is part of participation in the Challenge. If you do not post a statement, you will not be eligible for a Trophy.

At the time that I post the entries, I will send you the MyWork password, and you use that whenever you talk about your own work on the board. The idea is to keep the identity of the artists secret till after the voting.

Publicity and emails. I will send one email to you when I post your entries. I will send out a mass email when it is time to vote. I will send a mass email announcing the Awards.

I WILL NOT be posting entries on Saturdays or Sundays.

I'll send you an email just after I post your entry. So, if you send it on Friday afternoon, you should expect an email from me by about 15:00 GMT on Monday.

In general, you should email me if you do not get an email acknowleging your entries within one full day of when you send them (excepting weekends).

If you don't hear from me after that, your email box may be full. Check this and then email me again.

Time frame. (All times GMT)

This Challenge is being announced on Saturday, 3 December 2005.
Entries will be posted beginning on Tuesday, 13 December, and all entries are due by Monday, 26 December, 2005 at 15:00 GMT.
Voting will commence on 26 December after 16:00 GMT.
All votes are due by Wednesday, 28 December, at 15:00 GMT.

Once your entries are up, you'll make comments on your own entries, using the MyWork login name, and comment on the other entries, using your own login name.

Your Artist's Statements must be posted by 16:00 on the entry due date. Entries which have no Artist's Statement won't get votes. If you don't have an Artist's Statement by the close of voting, you will not be eligible for a Trophy, even if you get enough votes.

Image and filesize restrictions. I'll be setting up this Challenge using Photoshop's Web Photo Gallery feature.

Please send me your final images with the longer side measuring at least 600 pixels. If you send it smaller, it will be enlarged for the gallery and this won't be good. If you send it larger, no crisis.

Photoshop will be making the thumbnails, so ... you don't need to make them!

As far as filesize, I'll be running the Web Photo Gallery with a quality of 5. My goal is to have images that are about 60K. Images that are less complex will have smaller files. Images that are more complex will have larger files. Of course, it is my hope that all of the images look as good as possible.

Because there will be an extra layer of compression with this extra file-save, I'll allow you to submit image files that are up to 120K.

Please don't send PSD files.

Keep in mind that this Challenge is about YOU, what you can do, what you can learn from others, and what you can teach them. I look forward to working with you on this Challenge!

Voting

Vote when I tell you to, and not before:

In general, I will ask for (n/10) + 1 votes, if n is the number of entries in a category.

Vote by sending an email to Janee at the email address below!

Who can vote?

Only people who have entered this Challenge, or people who have an invitation from Janee to be a Blue Ribbon Judge, may vote in this Challenge. If you want to vote, but have not been invited, email me and ask.

Click for full Voting Guidelines.

December Challenge Topic & Rules

Topic... Holidays

For this Challenge, for the first 5 categories, you're to create images that you would put on a holiday card. These 5 categories represent the different holidays. General Greetings cannot look like any particular holiday, so while holly and pine are ok, Santas and Christmas trees are not for this category.

For this Challenge, you may have up to eight (8) entries altogether, and NO MORE than two (2) entries for any one category.

The categories are these:

g -- General Greetings
h -- Hanukkah
k -- Kwanzaa
n -- New Year
x -- Christmas
z -- Holiday Stamps

Besides our holiday categories – General Greetings, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year, and Christmas, we’re also going to have a category for Holiday Stamps!

Stamps need to be in a block of 4 different designs. You can have them all for the same holiday, or for different holidays. Use stamp borders and money denominations. If you want to use a country name, you may use myJanee.com, or another country.

I am the sole judge of whether something will be posted or not. If you have a question about the appropriateness of your entry, the answer is no. :)

What you may NOT depict is the usual taboos -- slurs against any particular group or nudity that you'd get in trouble having on network TV.

If you are using any images which are not original to you, you must disclose this in your Artist's Statement in the Community Message Board.

Size Matters!

Image Size	File Size
600 pixels or more on longer side	120K MAX

Questions? For full rules, go here.

Summary of Entry Requirements:

Follow the topic
NO more than stated limit for entries in a category
Correct entry sizes
File names in correct format
Your Artist's Statement in Message Board before voting period begins
Comments to the other artists on the Message Board
Vote when it is time.
If you are chosen to receive a Trophy, plan to do an acceptance picture and speech.

Enter or vote by emailing Janee.

I hope you enjoy being part of this Challenge!

Always me,

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