Specktra introduces all new Tutorial Contest


The Specktra.net team brings you an exciting feature of this forum: tutorial contests! Forum members are encouraged to participate in and vote on the best monthly tutorial. Each month a winning tutorial will be selected by members to be featured on the website.

The winner of each month's contest – as decided by YOU, registered Specktra.net forum members – will receive a prize. The prize will include a $25 Gift Certificate to an online e-retailer, as well as an upgrade for a Bronze Supporter Premium Member subscription to the forum. If an international member outside of the US/Canada wins the contest then they will be sent a paypal payment equal to $25USD + the Premium Member Bronze Supporter subscription.

So, here are the rules!


Tutorial Contest Rules:

1. The Contest will begin on the first day of the month, and run to the end of the third week of the month. Please do not post entries into the Contest forum before the 1st day of the month. Any tutorial that is submitted before the 1st of the month while the voting process for that month is still underway, will be automatically moved out. Members must post their tutorial in this Tutorial Contest Entries subforum. If you posted it in the wrong section and would like to enter, you must send me a private message to have it moved to the Entries forum. You may post as many tutorials as you like in the regular Tutorial sections, but only ONE tutorial can be submitted to the subforum to participate in the monthly contest. The tutorial must be entered before the voting period starts! If you post the tutorial too late, it will not be eligible for that month.

2. During the last week of each month, members can then vote which tutorial they liked the most. Your vote should be based on how helpful the tutorial was, and other factors such as creativity, thoroughness of instructions, etc.

3. Your vote must be cast as follows: There will be a separate voting thread created by staff stickied at the top of the Tutorial Contest subforum. The voting will be done by poll, which will allow for annonymous voting. Simply click on the username who would like to vote for and submit. The winner will be announced at the end of the month. All Contest tutorials will be moved to the regular tutorial forums once the contest is over at the end of each month.

4. The tutorial must be new. You cannot re-use one of your old tutorials. You must post all the images with instructions in your thread on Specktra, you may not post a link to the tutorial on an off-site, such as your personal blog or website.

5. Photoshop and other photo manipulation software must be kept to a minimum. Your makeup may not be digitally altered or enhanced. You may use Photoshop to:

- adjust the lightness / darkness of an image.
- crop/resize/rotate your images
- sharpen as necessary
- you can post one fun photoshopped picture of the finished look, as long as you still post an original version of the final face for voting.

Please note: The maximum height of a pic should only be 800 pixels or less. The width may be 640 pixels or less. If your pictures are larger, please use thumbnails or resize your images.

6. The tutorial model does not have to be yourself; you may apply the makeup on another person, as long as the makeup is done by yourself.

7. Video Tutorials are now admissible.You may post a video tutorial from a site such as Youtube, by embedding the video into your post. To do this, simply copy the url of the video directly from the address bar on your browser, and paste it directly into your thread without any additional tags, it will be automatically formatted into your thread. Video tutorial submissions must still provide one picture of the final look in the post for voting purposes. The maximum height of the picture should be 800 pixels or less. The width may be 640 pixels or less. The video may not exceed 10:59 minutes in length, this includes for Youtube Partners.

8. If in any given month there is only one entry, the tutorial contest will be rolled over and extended for an additional month. There must be at least two entries for the voting to take place. This is to maintain at least a bit of competitive element in what is, after all, a contest.

Remember, these tutorials are for fun and for helping out other makeup fiends, they are not popularity contests, so please be fair and honest in voting, and most of all, HAVE FUN! Only your imagination and creativity are your limits!

Please refer to these helpful threads how to post thumbnails of larger images, and how to take better pictures of your makeup with your camera:

Thumbnails How-To
Camera How-To

We look forward to your entries!




Note: Specktra staff reserves the right to change or add to the rules as deemed necessary, so please take note if there has been a rule update.

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