Ladies and gents, we have a graphics challenge for you! The 2006 SidCity.net calendar is on the horizon, and we thought it would be nice to have a couple of months feature work by SidCitizens. Interested? Here are the particulars:

Submission Deadline: Sunday, October 30, 2005
Submission Protocol: Post your entry here, no wider than 600px, by the deadline. You may include a link to the larger size if you'd like.
Dimensions: 2300x1800 pixels, 200dpi
Format: .jpg or .png
Content: Well, Sid, of course. Because of copyright limitations, photos of Sid from his movie and television roles are off limits. We realize that this means a healthy chunk of the really good photos are unusable, but since this will be an item that we're selling, we have to be careful about copyrights. However, other photos are acceptable, and any of his quotes from interviews can be used. The quality of the printing is very good, so feel free to be as complex or as spare as you wish.
Voting: We will hold an open vote to choose the winners from Monday, October 31-Wednesday, November 2, 2005.
Prize: Fame and fortune! Well, sort of. Your entry will be published in the 2006 SidCity.net Calendar and you'll receive your very own copy of the calendar.
Examples: Here are a couple of months for the new calendar that are already finished, just to give you an idea (clickable):






We look forward to seeing what you come up with - GOOD LUCK!

Today's actually 26th October as I've re-edited this post to include my actual working calendar page, so the site wont be clogged up by the old work. For those of you who have just arrived here, my calendar page would only appear on my MAC and nothing else .

Thanks to Mel for helping me out with this.

AUGH! Is it just me, or is it unavailable? I can't see it...(but I bet it looks good!)

I know it's strange isn't it? I was doing this on our family computer which is a PC and it wasn't showing up at all. Then when I went on my MAC to check to see why it wasn't working it showed up perfectly. It is a JPEG image so goodness knows why it doesn't show up on a PC. If anyone can solve this mystery (and get my image to work) I'd be forever grateful.

Roxi, if you want to email the image to me (mel@sidcity.net), I'll upload it to our server and see if that works.

Oh, so I'm not going crazy (er)!
Rock on (does coldplay rock?)

Vi

Roxi is it hosted on an image hosting site like Photobucket or something like it?

Usually I put it on my own webspace at my website at www.roxi.co.uk - it's not actually on display there it just remains in the folders of the site. Anyway, even though I had uploaded my images there I still couldn't view them (that red x mark would appear ) so as a last resort I tried Photobucket. Unfortunately the same result showed there. I came off the PC and went on my MAC after that to see if it worked there and bizarrely enough it did, can't understand that really .

Anyway, it's all being sorted so hopefully you'll see something soon.

I don't get it, either. The image she emailed to me showed up fine on my PC. Unfortunately for Roxi, I'm a grammar fiend and am making her redo the text to include proper punctuation before I get it uploaded to our server.

What are you, Aunt Josephine?

lol she asked me to shoot her but I'm too nice, I hugged her instead!

Hey, show some respect for your elders there little one! Or at least for our fearless leader.

Sorry ma'am.
You're right, I am the youngest person on this forum.....

Okay, my first one might be considered for January? You judge.

Question: By saying that other photos than from movies and televison are okay, does that mean we can actually use every photo on the internet which is not copyrighted? So, does this include every convention photo from the sidcity gallery, for example?

Ulli

Answer: Yes.

Nice composition work mrsjack, I like it very much!

Be sure to scroll up to the top of the thread to see Rocksea's contribution which she edited into her original post.

Thanks Roxi! I like yours up there as well. Great idea.

Here's an offering for, well, we all know which month this could possible go in.


I have the 1072x768 size saved in my files but, unfortunately, I cannot figure out how to be able to click on the image for the larger version, so it must stand as is.

Oh, I'm having so much fun seeing what y'all come up with!

And mrsjack, your new sig is fabulous.

So here is my try. Which month.. well, I don't know.



Click on the pic for the big version.

I hope I have done everything the right way. If not, tell me please.

And can I post another one if I am able to finish it until Sunday?

Okay....this is my suggestion. From a person who also does not know how people put those amazing effects in their pics. I have only what was included in the win xp package. But I like the man in a suit.(use your imagination...)



larger version

First time I try to insert an image on the new board. Hope it works.

Ulli

You bet. Submit as many as you'd like.

I'm really enjoying seeing everyone's work; we're going to have some great entries to vote on!

Great stuff Takaya and ulli!

Will someone please tell me how to post a thumbnail size that when you click on it, opens another window with the full size version? The old ways don't work here for me.

Been working on this one all day in between teaching. I was inspired by the gorgeous fall day outside my window.

That's wonderful!

Now it becomes more and more difficult to decide which one I like most.
I like them all!

Ulli

And another try... this is really fun!



Again click on the pic for the bigger version.

Photo removed to free up memory.

Hi

Can I just praise the wonderful standard of the graphics. I am really enjoying the talents displayed from you all.


You all deserve a round of applause


All the best

Jude

Wow, Carol! Your's had me in stitches (I'm not sure why I found it so funny; I just did).

Mel, is it legal to have a guy's picture with Sid for the calendar that has positively nothing to do with Sid?

Carol, this is really great!
Some of the pics I've never seen before.
Great work!

Ulli

Probably. Also, we don't want photos of other people - we want Sid! Get out your cropping tools and see if you can crop the random guy out of the picture.

No, it's not like the other guy was in the picture its just...well...never mind.
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First of all I have to say that everyone of you has done a great job.

The 2006 SidCity.net Calendar will be wonderful.

Photo removed to free up memory.

Carol

Yah Carol! Legal loophole!!!!
Rock on!
Vi

They are all so good, it's going to be really hard to choose!