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After much deliberation and reading and rereading of the previous thread that got way out of hand. I have decided to change the rules of the contest. I listened to what everyone had to say, and thought about it ALL night long, and I have come to a decision. I WILL allow changes to color (saturation, hue, white balance, etc), I will allow changes to sharpness, brightness, contrast, etc. I will allow noise reduction. I will NOT under any circumstances allow pictures that appear unnatural, or that has had the colors changed so much that they do not resemble anything near what you would see with your own eyes were you there. I will not allow cropping, cutting, cloning, pasting, borders, or anything else that in ANY way shape or form changes the photo.
This is how the rules will be listed:
Image Modifications:
Minor digital enhancement is permitted, but images that have been significantly modified or appear unnatural will be disqualified.
Not Permitted:
No borders or frames may be added to images.
Adding or replacing elements in an image is not permitted.
Artistic filters are not permitted.
Permitted Modifications:
Images may be cropped and rotated as necessary.
Images may be resized as long as the aspect ratio is maintained
Red-eye removal and spot editing
One-step enhancement (such as "AutoFix", "QuickFix", "Auto Levels", etc.)
Use of filters to sharpen, soften, blur, despeckle, or remove noise.
Use of corrective functions to improve the natural appearance of the image, such as levels, contrast, brightness, curves, intensity, tone, hue, saturation, lightness, value, color balance, and tint.
I hope that will work for everyone. I was truthfully just trying to keep things as simple and fair as possible for everyone. It seems that is just too hard to do, so instead I give. You can do whatever you feel you need to in order to get the picture you want the way you want it, and it will be left to the voters to decide if they want to vote for entries that have been "tweaked". Because the option is I try and police the editing which is just not going to happen, or I risk alienating all of the entrants who shoot in RAW and don't have any non-edited photos to enter, and I don't want to do that either. Is it fair to all of those without the expensive cameras or editing equipment, probably not, but I don't know what else can be done.
In all honesty though, it's not like I am changing the way the contest has been running over the past 2 years anyway. The "tweaked" photos were still being entered and those without the ability or know how to do the same were still entering photos, so I hope everyone will still continue to do so. Truthfully, I absolutely LOVE running this contest. I don't want to stop doing it anytime soon. I hope that everyone will continue to enjoy it also and continue entering their photos for everyone to see and enjoy!!
Dana
This is how the rules will be listed:
Image Modifications:
Minor digital enhancement is permitted, but images that have been significantly modified or appear unnatural will be disqualified.
Not Permitted:
No borders or frames may be added to images.
Adding or replacing elements in an image is not permitted.
Artistic filters are not permitted.
Permitted Modifications:
Images may be cropped and rotated as necessary.
Images may be resized as long as the aspect ratio is maintained
Red-eye removal and spot editing
One-step enhancement (such as "AutoFix", "QuickFix", "Auto Levels", etc.)
Use of filters to sharpen, soften, blur, despeckle, or remove noise.
Use of corrective functions to improve the natural appearance of the image, such as levels, contrast, brightness, curves, intensity, tone, hue, saturation, lightness, value, color balance, and tint.
I hope that will work for everyone. I was truthfully just trying to keep things as simple and fair as possible for everyone. It seems that is just too hard to do, so instead I give. You can do whatever you feel you need to in order to get the picture you want the way you want it, and it will be left to the voters to decide if they want to vote for entries that have been "tweaked". Because the option is I try and police the editing which is just not going to happen, or I risk alienating all of the entrants who shoot in RAW and don't have any non-edited photos to enter, and I don't want to do that either. Is it fair to all of those without the expensive cameras or editing equipment, probably not, but I don't know what else can be done.
In all honesty though, it's not like I am changing the way the contest has been running over the past 2 years anyway. The "tweaked" photos were still being entered and those without the ability or know how to do the same were still entering photos, so I hope everyone will still continue to do so. Truthfully, I absolutely LOVE running this contest. I don't want to stop doing it anytime soon. I hope that everyone will continue to enjoy it also and continue entering their photos for everyone to see and enjoy!!
Dana
I promise to edit everything as necessary once I get a chance to post it all on the "OFFICIAL |RULE". However, since you had to ask, yes you can still crop your images. But no cutting, cloning, pasting, borders, or anything else that in ANY way shape or form changes the photo.
but i enjoy voting and the contest in general so thanks for all your efforts.
! 
I'm hoping this won't come up again for a while (because you know it will - I think the next debate should be about whether images shot using image stabilization should be allowed, or perhaps only hand held shots, nothing on a tripod 
