♦ Exclusive Stock from: (5 winners)



♦ Feature from:

 

♦ Llama from 

♦ 40 from
 

Feel free to donate prizes.

♦ Choose one stock required,

♦ You decide which to use in your Photomanipulation or Mixed Media,

♦ You can use both stocks in your entry,

♦ You can not use part of the stock, only whole stock.

♦ The stock has to be included in the main part of your work,

♦ The contest ends on  June 13th.

♦ You can submit to the Contest Folder at The-Imaginarium

♦ The judges of this competition are Wesley-Souza  and  Whendell

♦ All the entries will to go to the public vote, with the vote of the community, will be chosen 3 winners,
Place your vote in the comments (thumb or link), choose 4 entries that you liked.

♦ The judges will choose 2 winners.

♦ Credit All stock use.
♦ All stock and resources must come from legitimate sources.
♦ Artwork must be created specifically for this contest.
♦ All entries must include a link to this journal in the description.
♦ You may enter as many times as you like.
♦ We accept only Photomanipulation and Mixed Media.
♦ No D.A watermark, just your little signature.

Tips for Beginners MembersUPDATE artorifreedom wrote a great article about commercial work, if you want to start doing commercial work (books/cds/ etc) read the journal, find the link at the bottom of this blog.
Four years ago I created my account and literally was lost, I had many doubts, and in those years I discovered many things and decided to do a special blog with such useful information for beginners because every day brings new members who are also lost, then I am posting this to try and help in some way some beginners  
Start in the community in a good way.
Be an active member and try to participate and be part of the community, participate in contests, events, make friends, make journal feature, it is always good to see people sharing works, it does not matter if you still do not have many watchers, it's always good to see works being sharing and helping promote. Post your work in groups so that    Tips for Beginners Members - part 2 (stock)I realized that many people have difficulties about what are stock images and how and why to credit stock providers, and how linking back to the used stock photos, I refer here: Dear Photomanipulators from CD-STOCK ( thanks CD-STOCK ), so here is a tutorial journal especially about stock.
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Review the first part here: Tips for Beginners Members you can find useful things.
This second part you will find all the basic and initial information about stock image.
I've talked about stock in my previous journals, but I also needed a journal only about stock, then decide to collect everything and put here.
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What are Stock?

  Aquick explanation: available images for use in personal or commercial, free or paid    Not legitimate stock tips /how to reportMany people ask me what this term means ¨not legitimate stock¨

and always ask me how I know? how to identify?. so I decide to post a journal with many tip,



first...the things written here in this journal, I did a long search. and I'm doing this to help and inform people about this subject.
and first I'll tell because I started getting interested in this subject. three things happened that made me pay attention in this detail.
1 - a long time ago, I used the stock from pixabay in some premades. and unfortunately I did not know that this site is not reliable, so I was denounced and I had all my contents posted in stock removed.
2 - I used a premade, but the person who did this premade used a stock that was not allowed to be used, and this premade was denounced and people who used also have been denounced and had my manipulation was moved to scrap for infringed copyright.
3 - I used a PNG, and after

Contest open:

Gender bender - Contest - CLOSED
    Traducción al español del desafío de: / Spanish translation of the challenge of: Gender Bender (link)

Theme:
♦ Mythology / Fairy Tale / Folklore.


what do you have to do:
♦ One Gender Bender character.
♦ This includes Human characters and Animals.

what you have to show in your entry:
♦ You will choose a character from any Mythology / Fairy Tale / Folklore. (worldwide)
♦ You can choose some of the region/country that you live in this way you will represent something more creative, with a not well-known story. (famous stories are also welcome.)
♦ Simply reverse the genres, this includes all the characters in the story (partners, secondary characters, etc).
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Note the group if you need help or have further questions.