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In order to generate funds to cover the cost of
hosting our servers, we have opened a new Cafepress Shop, and we
want the community to help us design cool and unique XOOPS images for
t-shirts, mugs, caps, etc.
We hope to have lots of winners as we need many designs, so open up your
favorite graphic editor and bring out the artist in you!
The prize for winning will be fame and fortune as people all over the
world will wear your design and drink from your scribbles...
Of course you'll have to hand over all copyrights for your design to the
XOOPS Foundation to be able to participate...
There are no deadlines on the 'contest' as we know deadlines are
creativity killers, but we would love to see some first designs in
January. So work in your own pace, and create the 'WOW' effect with your
design :)
Rules:
- Use any graphical software to do your magic but
make sure it complies with sizes and formats as described below.
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Design must use the official XOOPS Logo (click here for the
Official Logo
Kit )
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Copyrights must be handed over to the XOOPS Foundation, which hopefully
will benefit from your creativity and help us all!
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Accepted winners will need to provide us with editable files (e.g. PSD),
so we could make changes if needed
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Max file sizes:
JPG - 7 MB / PNG - 4 MB
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No deadline!
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Submissions to be sent to: xoops-design [at] googlegroups.com
About Formats
Recommended Formats:
- PNG - Portable Network Graphics format is a completely
loss-less compression. Gradients come out much smoother and do not
have the distortions that may appear in a JPG. PNG is our
recommendation for image uploads.
- JPG - JPG's support over 16 million colors, but slightly
"distort" the image to compress the file size. For photos, the human
eye cannot tell the subtle changes in color, but along straight edges
and in pictures with large solid colors, distortion becomes very
apparent.
The following formats have long uploading times and are not
recommended:
- PSD - PhotoShop Document supports millions of colors. This
file format also has exceptional image quality, but it does not
compress your file so file sizes will be large and uploading times
will be long.
- TIFF - Tag Image File Format is similar to a PSD file but
the layers are flattened. Uploading times will be long.
- BMP - MS Windows Bitmap Format - Saves your file pixel for
pixel, Supports Millions of colors, the drawback is extremely large
file sizes, which translates into extremely long upload times.
- AI- Adobe Illustrator Not Acceptable
- EPS - Encapsulated PostScript - Supports Millions of color
and must be saved in Bitmap Form. Vector form is not acceptable.
Whichever format you decide on using, save all files in RGB color
mode.
About Sizes
- Print the picture yourself on your own printer at the same size
you want it to appear on your products. If it looks "chunky" or
"dirty" on your printer, it will look "chunky" or "dirty" on your
products too.
- If you save using JPG format, try using the lowest compression
setting possible. Where this setting is located varies with different
image software, but they should all have a 1-100 compression factor
that you can set. Lower compression means less distortion. If you have
the choice of having no compression at all that would be ideal.
- On colored fabrics be aware that any white in your image will show
as the color of the fabric. White ink is not possible in our current
dye sublimation process. Also very light colors may be affected by the
color of the shirt.
- When creating graphics, try to reduce as much white space around
the image as you can. Creating extra white space around the image will
prevent the image to print its maximum size.
More about formats and sizes
here! Read about
Product Templates
here!
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