Rules and Submission Guidelines for Icontests and Graphic Challenges

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Rules for Submission - Icontests and Graphic Challenges

1. All submisisons will be taken as comments to the individual prompt posts.  Please read the "How To: Submitting to an Icon or Graphic Challenge" for details on the requested format for submissions.
2. All icons must conform to the LiveJournal Userpic requirements.  They must be either .GIFs, .JPGs, or .PNGs.  They cannot be larger than 100x100 pixels and 40kb.  Unless otherwise stated, no animated icons are allowed.
3. Submissions must be new and made for each challenge.  Submissions cannot be released to the public until after voting has closed and the winners of the round announced.
4. Members are allowed to enter up to three (3) icons to each Icontests.  
5. Members are only allowed to enter one (1) submission per prompt for any other graphic challenge.  
6. As this is a family-friendly community, graphic nudity is not allowed.  This includes images of male and female genitalia and partial rear nudity.  Strong language may be acceptible as long as it fits the context of the challenge.
   

How to Post Your Icons or Graphics

You've got your icons prepared and ready to submit.  Great!  Now you need to post them in a comment to the prompt post.  Please follow the procedure listed below.

1. Step One - Hosting
• Before posting your images, you need to upload them to the internet somewhere.  There are several ways to do this.  If you are a Paid or Plus member, you can use the LiveJournal Scrapbook.  There are also a number of image hosts on the internet that offer free hosting.  The two most commonly used are Photobucket and Tiny Pic.  Any of these three hosts are acceptable at tm_challenge.
2. Step Two - Filling out the Comment
• Find the URL of your hosted image. This will be different for each host.  Check your host's faq or support pages if you need help finding your URLs.
• There will be a text box on each icontest post that has the template for submitting your icons.  You will need to use the image source tags to display the icons as well providing the URLs to each of your icons.  
3. Step Three - Preview and Post
• Click on the Preview button (screencap).  Make sure that the comment looks like the example in the comment below.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment at the Page the Mod entry.