The Post-Processing Challenge #1

**Donald** · 18th February 2011, 02:17 PM

The closing date for entries into this thread is 18 March 2011.

The purpose of the challenge is to provide all members with the same image and, with it, an opportunity to explore and develop their post-processing skills and to examine and learn from how they and others approach the task. Although there will be a vote, the idea is not to be competitive, but to engage in a learning process. So, discussions and exchanges of views as we go along, are encouraged.

The culture and values of CiC as embraced by its members makes the need for over-formalisation of procedures & guidelines largely unnecessary. However, we cannot always know who is joining the forum and some formalisation is required, particularly to protect the work of the person who has offered the image for post-processing.

These procedures are:-

You download the image, process it and then post it back up to this thread.
Photographs should be posted in this thread before the closing date (don't leave it too late).
No voting allowed for your own entry.
Each entrant will be allowed one submission.
All entrants must work on the file made available for download (at the bottom of this post). Any other image posted into the thread will be deleted.
Entrants may use appropriately licensed images to assist in the creative process (the original image must remain recognisable).
The image file made available for the challenge will remain the sole property of the person who made it available for the purpose, under a Creative Commons SA Licence. A full copy of the licence can be viewed HERE
Any person downloading the image offered for editing in this challenge, whether they submit an entry in the challenge or not, is deemed to accept the terms of the licence and to be bound by it.
A decision to pursue a claim against anyone breaching the terms of the licence shall be a matter solely for the copyright holder; i.e. the member who offered the image for download in this challenge. ‘Cambridge in Colour’ cannot be held responsible or liable for any breach of the Creative Commons SA Licence.

NB - The best way of dealing with this formality is to resolve that the only thing you will do with the image you downloaded is work on it for entry in this challenge and that you WILL NOT use it for any other purpose.

Voting, Choosing the next image file and telling us How You Did It:-
When announced, voting (open to any member) will be by Private Message (PM) to Donald, over a period of two days or so. This will ask you simply to say which you think demonstrates best PP skills and artistic presentation. Automated voting may be introduced at a later stage.

The ‘winner’ of one challenge will be asked to provide an image for the next challenge, or delegate that ‘honour’ to a Mod. The ‘winner’ will also be invited to tell us what they did (so keep a note).

The image file:
The file for this challenge has been provided by sonic4spuds (Will). A zip folder containing a RAW and PNG file can be downloaded via this link. If you have problems via that route, then try this. A JPEG copy of the image can be found here.

Have fun ... and good luck!