Supplementary Notes for Submitting PDIs

PROCEDURE FOR ENTERING PROJECTED DIGITAL IMAGES FOR INTERNAL COMPETITIONS.

This document is intended to help members to enter their PDIs in a satisfactory manner and answer the most popular questions. This procedure supplements the competition rules only and does not replace them.

1. All images entered must have maximum dimensions of 1024 pixels wide x 768 pixels high in a JPEG (.jpg) format. I suggest that image Compression is set at max or 12. They should also be saved with a colour space of sRGB. See ‘Colour Space’ topic below for further information. Images entered with a larger size or settings other than above may be either rejected or unsatisfactorily altered by the DiCentra competition software.

2. The file name for each image should be in the format “N_Title.jpg” where N indicates your order of preference of the image, followed by underscore ¬(+’-‘ keys), and Title is the chosen title of the image. So for example filenames of images could be “1_Sunset View.jpg”, “2_West Front Lincoln Cathedral.jpg” and so on. Please note that there is no requirement for your name in the file name as this will be deduced from either your folder name (option B), or your email address and salutation (option A).

3. You can enter your images in either of the following ways. The email (option A) is the preferred one.
Option A: Email your entries suitably formatted etc., to Michael Turner at micheal.turner10@ntlworld.com and the subject line should be ‘Competition entry’. This will ensure that all entries can be clearly identified. These must be sent by midnight on the Wednesday before the competition (i.e. two days later than option B). Michael will acknowledge receipt of entries as soon as possible.
Option B: Bring your entries suitably formatted etc., and located in a folder with your name as the folder name, on a memory stick. This must be brought to the club meeting one week before the competition date where it will be loaded onto a computer.

4. Michael Turner will work with members to resolve any problems with entries. He will also email ALL members, by Friday before the competition, with a list of the names of photographers having submitted entries. This will give a chance to resolve any missing entries before the competition itself.

COLOUR SPACE.
This phrase describes how the colours in your image are reproduced either as a print or displayed on a computer/projection screen. Either medium has limitations and has to make compromises to resolve them. These rules are defined in colour profiles. For prints you should normally use the Adobe RGB colour profile or similar. However when projected, as in DPI competitions, you should use a sRGB colour profile (e.g. sRGB IEC 1966-2.1). Such a change may slightly alter the appearance of your image and in this case you can take the opportunity to alter the Colour Balance and/or Levels and saving before you send off your entry.

You can change your colour profiles by the following actions-

In Photoshop (CS2).
• Open your image.
• Menu: Edit/Convert to profile.
• Source Space Profile: your existing profile (e.g. Adobe RGB). If sRGB you do not have to proceed further.
• Destination Space Profile: Select a sRGB profile (e.g. sRGB IEC 1966-2.1) from drop-down menu and then click

In Elements (v3.0).
• Menu: Edit/Color Settings
• If ‘Limited Color Management’ option is selected you do not have to proceed further.
• If ‘Full Color Management’ option is selected you should instead select ‘Limited Color Management’ option and then click .

Other photo editing software may do this in a similar way.


Please contact me if you have any queries on the above.

Jeff Royce
Updated September 2011