Competition Rules
Maximum of three entries per Weekly print or slide competition night.

Any print / slide that is marked within the top 3 of any competition should not be
re-entered into any internal competition for the remainder of the season
(Excluding the Annual Exhibition)

Note: There is no limit for the Annual Competition.

Prints may be commercially printed or computer / digital printed.

Prints must be mounted on some form of card backing, titled and have your membership number on the back.
The minimum print size is 6" x 4" and a maximum size of 20" x 16" or 50 cm x 40 cm,
including the mount.

Slides must be titled, numbered and dotted in the bottom left hand corner
(as viewed normally with the naked eye).

 All digital work must be authors own work, taken by normal or digital camera.

 All competition entries to be handed In by 7.45p.m. on the night of the event.

Liability Disclaimer
The 'Club' will not cover damage to members "work", entered into prints / slides competitions, either in-house or external.

Rules for Digital slide competitions. Taken from the N.E.M.P.F. Rules, for full details see:-

http://www.nempf.org.uk/forms/How to create a JPEG file for Digital Exhibitions.pdf

How to create a JPEG file using Adobe Photoshop
You may never have created a JPG file using Photoshop before, you probably normally save your files in the proprietary PSD Photoshop format, so these instructions take you through the steps of creating a JPEG file in Photoshop.

Resizing your image
All digital images will be judged at a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels.
The 1024 is the width across, making the image a landscape format.
Firstly, you should resize your image to fit within that pixel area. You will probably want to maintain the proportions of your image, so you may choose to add a background colour to fill any remaining space.

1. From the Image menu, choose Image Size, the Image Size dialog box is displayed
2. Make sure the units you have selected are pixels (top centre of the box).
3. Enter the width you want, for example 1024. The height will adjust automatically providing you have the Constrain Proportions box ticked.
4. Finally, check the height, if the height is more than 768, then you need to enter 768 in the height - this will reduce the width to less than 1024 pixels. Click OK.
Tip: many people will talk about "file size" or "dpi" - none of this is relevant here, you are measuring in pixels only.

Adding a background. If your image is not exactly 1024 x 768 then we will judge it with a black background filling the remaining space. If you want to choose some other colour than black then you can do so. With the resized image from steps 1 to 4 completed:
1. Set the background colour on the colour palette to the colour you want.
2. From the Image menu, choose Canvas Size. The Canvas Size dialogue box is shown.
3. Make sure the units are set to pixels. Type in 1024 for the width and 768 for the height.
4. Click OK.
Your image canvas is now enlarged to show the picture and the spare margins around the outside

Saving the Image
1. To save a file as a JPEG file, from the File menu, choose Save As. The Save As dialogue is displayed.
2. Select the folder you want to save to. Type in the correct File name (remember, it must show the ‘Slide Title’ followed by your ‘Club Number’. You can use spaces, or replace spaces with hyphen or underscore if you want to. e.g. Green trees-20).
Next make sure the Format field is set to JPEG. See the example above.
3. Click the Save button, you'll then see the JPEG Options dialog box.
4. Set the amount of compression to apply to the image. You can set the Quality to 10 or 11 and that's fine. This will ensure the final file size is not too large but will retain the quality of the image. Make sure the Format Options is set to Baseline (“Standard”).
5. Click OK