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Final round of Season 05 of The Photomode Tournament. Make sure you understand the theme requirements of your match.
You can see each dashboard update by clicking in either: PMC or 2.0
PMC
[Click to raise dashboard]
Give your best to win the PMC side of the Tournament
CARS: Any
LOCATIONS: Any
PHOTOTRAVEL: Yes
UNIQUE RESTRICTIONS: None.
Get a crazy, mean up close and wide angle shot of any car at speed
CARS: Any
LOCATIONS: Any
PHOTOTRAVEL: No
UNIQUE RESTRICTIONS: See above.
2.0
[Click to raise dashboard]
Give your best to win the 2.0 side of the Tournament
CARS: Any
LOCATIONS: Any
PHOTOTRAVEL: Yes
UNIQUE RESTRICTIONS: None.
Take a shot of any car skidding backwards. What you do is while traveling fast in a straight line, turn left/right real quickly and brake or use the parking brake and take a shot while the car is facing the opposite direction. Or driving backwards and swinging the car around, which is sometimes easier to accomplish.
CARS: Any
LOCATIONS: Any
PHOTOTRAVEL: No
UNIQUE RESTRICTIONS: See above
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.
All entries must be submitted by P.M. to Nicknamealguem . Please, fill in the following form:
Private Message Requirements:
- P.M. Title: Photomode Tornament Final Entry;
- P.M. Subject: Image in either thumbnail, preview or just a link to the full size.
Entry Requirements:
- 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!
- One entry per user. It must be your own work, and never previously used in a competition;
- Do not ask other users to choose your entry;
- Entries may not be changed after submitting;
- All entries within the rules will go into poll;
- You may not post your image elsewhere, until the poll closes down, nor add any identifying element to it.
- 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.
PMC (blue)
- No post-GT5 editing, besides proportionally resize and rotate, is allowed.
2.0 (red)
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Add a personal signature.
24.12.12
[12.00 GMT]
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Whether or not I will like any shots I take for it may be another matter though.
So good luck to you too.
