2008 Horsetopia Calendar Guidelines (don't post photos here)

**Horsetopia-Annie** · 03-10-2007, 09:55 AM

Hi everyone!

It's time to get going on the 2008 Horsetopia Calendar Contest. The guidelines are slightly different from last year so please read carefully. If you have any questions, please feel free to reply below. Do not post your entries in this thread, they will need to be emailed to us (see more info below). You can enter as many photos as you'd like, but please make sure they meet our criteria before sending them in.

1. Photo must be high quality and digital. This means about 1612x1024 pixels or good enough for an 8" x 10" print. If you submit a photo and the resolution is too low, we won't be able to consider it.

2. Photos must include at least one horse as the main subject. (no people in the photos, please!)

3. Photos should be visually stunning and horizontally oriented (the photo should be wider than it is tall). You've all seen plenty of calendars -- photos should be clear and should have a great background (or at the very least, the background should be clear of trash and/or manure)

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4. You must own the rights to the photo. The photo must be taken by you (or a family member). Winners for each month will be asked to sign a release form, giving us permission to use the photo in a commercial capacity. You will not have to sign over your rights to the photo, but you will need to agree that Horsetopia.com can use any photo you submit in our promotional materials or in the Calendar. Calendars will be sold towards the end of 2007 and we will do our best to find a low-cost distributor.

To help you get an idea of the quality we are looking for, please, see the winners from last year here: http://forum.horsetopia.com/viewtopic.php?t=14161

To submit a photo, please email it to Horsetopia.Calendar@gmail.com -- we will post the photo within a week or two of receiving it, if it meets the above criteria. Please make sure to include your forum username in the subject line of the email! Depending on the quality and quantity of photos received, this contest may remain open for quite some time.

This contest will not affect our regularly scheduled monthly photo contests. Additionally, you are free to submit photos to both contests simultaneously. If you have any questions, please feel free to PM Horsetopia-Annie. Now, get out there with those cameras!

Please remember, do NOT post your photos in this thread. You need to submit them by email to Horsetopia.Calendar@gmail.com with your forum username in the title of the email.

treasure1 · 03-10-2007, 01:28 PM

Oh I love the Calander...Here I go with my camera again

paige5785 · 03-10-2007, 05:33 PM

Oh I'm so excited to be apart of this year's calendar team. I want to wish everyone that enters good luck, and I hope we get LOTS and LOTS of GREAT photos to choose from!

to a new year full of lots of GREAT new pics

**Horsetopia-Annie** · 03-10-2007, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by paige5785

Oh I'm so excited to be apart of this year's calendar team. I want to wish everyone that enters good luck, and I hope we get LOTS and LOTS of GREAT photos to choose from!

to a new year full of lots of GREAT new pics

Many thanks to Paige5785, Applejack, Kelly4NC and Lady_MCSE for volunteering to help out with this project! With their help we we definitely not be able to do another calendar.

horsey-gal · 03-10-2007, 09:04 PM

Oh, now I have something to look forward to, can't wait to submit some photos and see what everyone else chooses

TXCowGrl82 · 03-18-2007, 03:44 PM

How long will you be accepting pics for the calender? I know you need time to get everything set up, but hopefully we'll have a couple months so things can start turning green again. And sorry if you said it and I missed it.

paige5785 · 03-18-2007, 06:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TXCowGrl82

How long will you be accepting pics for the calender? I know you need time to get everything set up, but hopefully we'll have a couple months so things can start turning green again. And sorry if you said it and I missed it.

We will be taking pics untill november then we will be voting in december.

ilovepaints1 · 03-26-2007, 09:41 PM

Im not good at understanding all the resolutions and stuff. So my 640 x 480 pixels pics wouldnt work?

**muttduck** · 03-27-2007, 05:48 AM

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Originally Posted by ilovepaints1

Im not good at understanding all the resolutions and stuff. So my 640 x 480 pixels pics wouldnt work?

Once they blow it up to 8x10 size, it will either blur or pixellate (look like lots of colored squares are in the pic, instead of smooth lines and even color blending.)

When you go to email a photo file that you want to submit, attach the original file that is saved in your computer, not one that you've shrunk to post here, nor one you've cropped down to a smaller size. (Dial-uppers, this takes FOREVER!)

Most digital cameras that are 3 MegaPixels or greater will take high resolution shots that are perfect for the calendar.

sugarsgal · 03-27-2007, 09:25 AM

I didn't know that my camera had a setting for this

For those that are not technology smart like me

you can actually set your camera to take higher resolution pictures through the menu set up. I guess I should have read the manual when I bought it over 1 year ago

No wonder I was getting over 200 pictures on a 128MB card

**muttduck** · 03-27-2007, 02:35 PM

My 256 MB card gets about 80 high resolution pics, from a 6.0MP camera.

**Promise Ranch** · 05-17-2007, 01:43 PM

So... Is 1600 x 1200 high enough?

I know you said, "This means about 1612x1024 pixels"...

It's close.

cowgirlatheart72 · 05-21-2007, 04:55 PM

ok i am lost, i wanna post a pic but don't know where to post it, could someone please help me? thanks

paige5785 · 05-21-2007, 08:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Horsetopia-Annie

To submit a photo, please email it to Horsetopia.Calendar@gmail.com -- we will post the photo within a week or two of receiving it, if it meets the above criteria. Please make sure to include your forum username in the subject line of the email! Depending on the quality and quantity of photos received, this contest may remain open for quite some time.

This should clear things up for you.

cowgirlatheart72 · 05-21-2007, 09:54 PM

oh duh, now i fele stupid

n thanks paige

guess it helps to read all the way down first huh.....lol

paige5785 · 05-22-2007, 06:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cowgirlatheart72

oh duh, now i fele stupid

n thanks paige

guess it helps to read all the way down first huh.....lol

It's perfectly ok! That's what I'm here for!!

mdvaden · 07-16-2007, 11:30 PM

I just emailed an image of two horses and a blue peacock.

Some folks at the HGTV forums thought it would be a good calendar image. It's my favorite pic from the past year, at least.

paige5785 · 07-31-2007, 10:54 AM

And it was an absolutely stunning pic! If I'm not mistaken, it should be in the submitted entries thread for everyone to see.

paige5785 · 08-04-2007, 09:06 AM

Everyone needs to re-read these guidelines for submitting photos. We've had alot of great photos that didn't meet these requirements. Please take a look at them again before submitting photos!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Horsetopia-Annie

1. Photo must be high quality and digital. This means about 1612x1024 pixels or good enough for an 8" x 10" print. If you submit a photo and the resolution is too low, we won't be able to consider it.

2. Photos must include at least one horse as the main subject. (no people in the photos, please!)

3. Photos should be visually stunning and horizontally oriented (the photo should be wider than it is tall). You've all seen plenty of calendars -- photos should be clear and should have a great background (or at the very least, the background should be clear of trash and/or manure)

.

4. You must own the rights to the photo. The photo must be taken by you (or a family member). Winners for each month will be asked to sign a release form, giving us permission to use the photo in a commercial capacity. You will not have to sign over your rights to the photo, but you will need to agree that Horsetopia.com can use any photo you submit in our promotional materials or in the Calendar. Calendars will be sold towards the end of 2007 and we will do our best to find a low-cost distributor.

To help you get an idea of the quality we are looking for, please, see the winners from last year here: http://forum.horsetopia.com/viewtopic.php?t=14161

Thanks for everyones' contributions to the calendar!

Lady_MCSE · 08-16-2007, 11:25 AM

Regarding this Requirement:

1. Photo must be high quality and digital. This means about 1612x1024 pixels or good enough for an 8" x 10" print. If you submit a photo and the resolution is too low, we won't be able to consider it.

I'm going to give you some real really basic hints or tips here, with some links for further reading at the end of my post. But that is NOT to say you have to become a camera (or computer) expert just to send in your photos!

The photo has to be taken with a camera that can take pictures of at least 3.1 Megapixels (the bigger the megapixel number the better!)
It's probably best not to crop or rotate or resize or try to remove a date stamp before you submit - you may make the image too small to accept.
Don't submit your photo by uploading it to Photobucket first, they will shrink it to 800x600 which is too small.
If you don't know what your pixels are for a photo, sometimes you can look at the size of the file, and it probably has to be at least 400kb in size.

03-10-2007, 09:55 AM
Horsetopia-Annie Administrator Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,667	2008 Horsetopia Calendar Guidelines (don't post photos here) Hi everyone! It's time to get going on the 2008 Horsetopia Calendar Contest. The guidelines are slightly different from last year so please read carefully. If you have any questions, please feel free to reply below. Do not post your entries in this thread, they will need to be emailed to us (see more info below). You can enter as many photos as you'd like, but please make sure they meet our criteria before sending them in. 1. Photo must be high quality and digital. This means about 1612x1024 pixels or good enough for an 8" x 10" print. If you submit a photo and the resolution is too low, we won't be able to consider it. 2. Photos must include at least one horse as the main subject. (no people in the photos, please!) 3. Photos should be visually stunning and horizontally oriented (the photo should be wider than it is tall). You've all seen plenty of calendars -- photos should be clear and should have a great background (or at the very least, the background should be clear of trash and/or manure) . 4. You must own the rights to the photo. The photo must be taken by you (or a family member). Winners for each month will be asked to sign a release form, giving us permission to use the photo in a commercial capacity. You will not have to sign over your rights to the photo, but you will need to agree that Horsetopia.com can use any photo you submit in our promotional materials or in the Calendar. Calendars will be sold towards the end of 2007 and we will do our best to find a low-cost distributor. To help you get an idea of the quality we are looking for, please, see the winners from last year here: http://forum.horsetopia.com/viewtopic.php?t=14161 To submit a photo, please email it to Horsetopia.Calendar@gmail.com -- we will post the photo within a week or two of receiving it, if it meets the above criteria. Please make sure to include your forum username in the subject line of the email! Depending on the quality and quantity of photos received, this contest may remain open for quite some time. This contest will not affect our regularly scheduled monthly photo contests. Additionally, you are free to submit photos to both contests simultaneously. If you have any questions, please feel free to PM Horsetopia-Annie. Now, get out there with those cameras! Please remember, do NOT post your photos in this thread. You need to submit them by email to Horsetopia.Calendar@gmail.com with your forum username in the title of the email. __________________ Annie Horsetopia.com

03-10-2007, 01:28 PM
treasure1 Yearling Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: South lyon, Michigan Posts: 899	Oh I love the Calander...Here I go with my camera again __________________ RIP: Neverskiphercolor

03-10-2007, 05:33 PM
paige5785 Kid Safe Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 5,264	Oh I'm so excited to be apart of this year's calendar team. I want to wish everyone that enters good luck, and I hope we get LOTS and LOTS of GREAT photos to choose from! to a new year full of lots of GREAT new pics

03-10-2007, 09:04 PM
horsey-gal Coming two Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Valley, N.S Posts: 1,656	Oh, now I have something to look forward to, can't wait to submit some photos and see what everyone else chooses

03-18-2007, 03:44 PM
TXCowGrl82 Greenbroke Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Huntsville, Texas Posts: 3,243	How long will you be accepting pics for the calender? I know you need time to get everything set up, but hopefully we'll have a couple months so things can start turning green again. And sorry if you said it and I missed it.

03-26-2007, 09:41 PM
ilovepaints1 Long Yearling Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,072	Im not good at understanding all the resolutions and stuff. So my 640 x 480 pixels pics wouldnt work?

03-27-2007, 09:25 AM
sugarsgal Started Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,715	I didn't know that my camera had a setting for this For those that are not technology smart like me you can actually set your camera to take higher resolution pictures through the menu set up. I guess I should have read the manual when I bought it over 1 year ago No wonder I was getting over 200 pictures on a 128MB card __________________ There is no such thing as an Ignorant horse, there are only Ignorant people!

03-27-2007, 02:35 PM
muttduck Super Moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Central Kentucky Posts: 6,225	My 256 MB card gets about 80 high resolution pics, from a 6.0MP camera. __________________ "No more lives torn apart, that wars would never start, and time would heal all hearts... Everyone would have a friend, and right would always win, and love would never end... This is my grown-up Christmas list. " ~ Amy Grant

05-17-2007, 01:43 PM
Promise Ranch Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: North Texas Posts: 1,482	So... Is 1600 x 1200 high enough? I know you said, "This means about 1612x1024 pixels"... It's close. __________________ Crafty Cowgirl - We have the perfect gift for the "Horse Crazy" girl in your life! Handmade Horse Treats also available!

05-21-2007, 04:55 PM
cowgirlatheart72 Halter broke Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Waverly, Iowa Posts: 78	ok i am lost, i wanna post a pic but don't know where to post it, could someone please help me? thanks __________________ Horses......If god made anyting more beautiful, he kept it to himself. Author Unknown

05-21-2007, 09:54 PM
cowgirlatheart72 Halter broke Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Waverly, Iowa Posts: 78	oh duh, now i fele stupid n thanks paige guess it helps to read all the way down first huh.....lol __________________ Horses......If god made anyting more beautiful, he kept it to himself. Author Unknown

07-16-2007, 11:30 PM
mdvaden Newborn Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Oregon Posts: 4	I just emailed an image of two horses and a blue peacock. Some folks at the HGTV forums thought it would be a good calendar image. It's my favorite pic from the past year, at least.

07-31-2007, 10:54 AM
paige5785 Kid Safe Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 5,264	And it was an absolutely stunning pic! If I'm not mistaken, it should be in the submitted entries thread for everyone to see.

08-16-2007, 11:25 AM
Lady_MCSE Greenbroke Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Shytown, IL Posts: 3,508	Regarding this Requirement: 1. Photo must be high quality and digital. This means about 1612x1024 pixels or good enough for an 8" x 10" print. If you submit a photo and the resolution is too low, we won't be able to consider it. I'm going to give you some real really basic hints or tips here, with some links for further reading at the end of my post. But that is NOT to say you have to become a camera (or computer) expert just to send in your photos! The photo has to be taken with a camera that can take pictures of at least 3.1 Megapixels (the bigger the megapixel number the better!) It's probably best not to crop or rotate or resize or try to remove a date stamp before you submit - you may make the image too small to accept. Don't submit your photo by uploading it to Photobucket first, they will shrink it to 800x600 which is too small. If you don't know what your pixels are for a photo, sometimes you can look at the size of the file, and it probably has to be at least 400kb in size. Further reading: Wikipedia, on pixels and megapixels - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel About.com, a buying guide on cameras that talks about megapixels - http://cameras.about.com/cs/choosing...megapixels.htm Microsoft, on Printing Great Photos - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...stquality.mspx If anyone would like some personal tips\pointers\help with this, please feel free to PM me. (Windows people anyway . . . ) I do computer support for a living. And of course, if you have any doubts about whether it's big enough, just send it on in!!! __________________ Yes I can spell the way Webster tells me to. But why? I might spell correctly Tuesday thru Wensday tho.