General Compo Guidelines

I wrote this up to make my own life a bit easier (being the webmaster of this site) and to improve the quality of compos in general - so that YOU can get the results FASTER and with LESS MISTAKES. The advices are for both participants and judges.

Participants:

1. it is not difficult for you guys to save your picture either as GIF or JPEG and it simplifies my life a lot - since I don't have to do any conversions (with possible degradation of image quality) before I put your work on the web.

2. name your pictures "handle.jpg" or "handle.gif" - not "handle_compotopic.gif" or something like that. This reduces the number of possible errors errors during judges.

3. please keep the size of your picture down - at least less than 640x480. This is for two reasons: one is the amount of diskspace, and two is that shareware Alchemy does not process the pics larger than that. (I use Alchemy to do the conversions and thumbnails)

Judges:

1. If some one did not follow the naming conventions I meantioned above could you please name the files properly yourself before mailing the results to me?

2. When creating the results.txt please follow the following format:

//name of the compo:
30min pixel compo, 30min trace compo, etc.//
Topic:
"//compo topic//"
Judges:
//Names of all people
	who participated in the judging//

1. handle
2. handle
3. handle
4.
.
.

Comment: //any additional comments//

(this is for convenience of the people who download the archive and also makes it easier for me to create the gallery)