Digital assessment guidelines

Digital Assessment Guidelines

The rules applying to the number of entries allowed are the same for both print-based and digital-based assessments. You may submit a maximum of three images and there are no restrictions as to whether they are colour or monochrome and whether or not they are in the set subject or open subject categories. There are four categories in total including Set Colour, designated “SC”, Set Monochrome “SM”, Open Colour “OC” and Open Monochrome “OM”.

Please note that as far as pointscores are concerned, a set subject award is worth more points than an equivalent open subject award.

Deadline

The deadline for the assessment can be found here on the website or in the club's Facebook pages. In the event you cannot find a published dealine it is safe to assume your digital images must be uploaded by 6:00 pm on the last Friday of the preceding month.

Destination

Images are to be uploaded into your private member’s Dropbox folder which was allocated to you when you joined the club. These Dropbox folders and any images contained therein are stored in the cloud and can be accessed by the committee for purposes of collating and presenting to the judge. After the assessment they will be deleted from the folder so that it will be empty for the following digital assessment.

File Format

In order to keep file sizes manageable, please upload JPEGs only. Your software can export your image to or save as a jpeg file. The best option when exporting or saving is to choose the maximum quality setting. These files will display just as crsiply and cleanly as other file formats.

File Size

Image size is not critical because they will all be seen on the same sized viewing screen and, unless you have severely cropped your image there will be plenty of pixels. In terms of image dimensions, no more than 3000 pixels wide or 2000 pixels deep will be more than sufficient for a high resolution screen while keeping your file size manageable.

File Resolution

How many pixels per inch do I need? Unlike the printed image, the viewing screen is subject to hardware technology limitations. Your screen (and likely that of the judge’s screen as well) is probably not capable of showing more than 200 pixels per inch. Consequently there is no point in specifying more than 200 ppi.

File Naming

All images will need to be given a title and there are two things we need to know about your image

• The first is which category it will be judged in, and
• the second is a descriptive title of the subject.
• Your name does not need to be appended to the title because only your images will appear in your dropbox folder.
• Examples
  • SC-Seacliff Bridge.jpg (A colour jpeg image of the Seacliff Bridge in the set colour category)
  • SM-My pet dog.jpg (A monochrome jpeg image of my pet dog in the set monochrome category)
  • OC-Dad.jpg (a colour jpeg image of Dad which is not in the set subject category)
  • OM-Rotten Apple.jpg ( a monochrome jpg image of a rotten apple which is not in the set subject category).