Dates
Photo Submission: Now – January 2, 2020, 23:59 (GMT -8, Los Angeles)
Voting Period: Now – January 6, 2020, 23:59 (GMT -8, Los Angeles)
Review Period: January 7 - January 9 , 2020
Winner Announcement: January 10, 2020
Upload Process
Edit your people and portrait photos in PhotoDirector and upload the Before & After photos.
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Step 1
Edit
Edit a photo using PhotoDirector.
Photo must contain an exclusive contest watermark to be eligible for this contest.
How to add the watermark for:
Step 2
Submit
Fill out the entry form and upload your before & after photos to the submission page.
Step 3
Display
After the approval process, your photos will be displayed the contest gallery for others to view and vote.
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Submission Guidelines
Submission Guidelines
- The 'After' photo should be edited using features in PhotoDirector.
- Eligible After Photo must contain contest watermark.
- Both color and monochrome images will be accepted.
- File size: Entries should not exceed a combined file size of 20MB.
- File format: JPEG / 150 dpi recommended.
- Each participant can submit up to five entries.
- Entry is limited to original works that have not formerly been displayed or exhibited and to which the entrant holds all applicable rights.
Entries that are not eligible will be rejected due to the following reasons
- The 'Before & After' photos are too similar.
- The 'After' photo does not include an exclusive event watermark.
- The photo is unrelated to ‘People & Portraits’.
- The photo is identical or similar to other works submitted.
- More than five entries have been submitted.
- The photo submitted does not comply with the event rules.
- The photos have been previously submitted or had won prizes in other contests, i.e. similar works.
- By submitting your photos in this contest, you automatically allow CyberLink to feature your photos on CyberLink newsletters, blogs, official websites and other social media pages.
- Contest winners may be requested to provide higher resolution images for publication and other online displays in relation to the contest.
Panel Judging & Audience Voting
Prize : The ‘Grand’, ‘2nd’, ‘3rd’ & ‘Merit’
- The ‘Grand’, ‘2nd’, ‘3rd’ & ‘Merit’ Prize Winners will be judged by professional photographers and multimedia editors based on the following criteria:
Photography & Editing Skills
Prize : ‘ Audience Favorites’
- Number of votes for each photo is calculated based on the total of likes caculated by Facebook.
- One Facebook account may only vote for each photo once.
- For Audience Favorite's award, in the case that there are multiple photos with the same number of votes, there will be a random draw for one winner.
- Any use of robotic, repetitive, automatic, programmed, script, macro, or any other automated means or similar entry methods or agents for voting is not permitted and will result in the disqualification of all votes received through that method.
Prizes
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Grand Prize
GoPro HERO8 + Director Suite 365
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2nd Prize
Wacom Intuos Wireless Graphics Drawing Tablet + Director Suite 365
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3rd Prize
DJI Osmo Mobile 3 + Director Suite 365
Merit Prize x 6
Director Suite 365
Audience Favorites x 3
PowerDirector 365 + PhotoDirector 365
All 365 series software prizes will be a free one year subscription.
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