This is a spin-off of the original GFX Art Battle, but with some updated rules and changes. Please make sure to read the rules before entering, since they have been modified. Good luck, we look forward to seeing some creative artistic entries!
Competition Rules 1. Must be hand drawn, either on paper or in a program. It can then be manipulated in an graphics program. But unoriginal artwork cannot be used as the main focus. Copyrighted images cannot be used. All pieces containing copyrighted images will be disqualified. 2. Submissions must follow the current theme that has been chosen by a moderator for that week. If you submit more than one piece, please clarify which one you would like to be judged. 3. If your image is larger than 600 pixels wide, please provide a link to the image instead of posting it in the forum. Otherwise, the image will be cut off. 4. Artists cannot win in subsequent weeks. You can still submit, but if you won the week before, you cannot get first place again the next week. 5. After the deadline, a moderator will pick the winner, and they will be awarded a 25 AP award.
JPEGs are actually smaller than PNGs depending on the type of image, although I'm not sure how you're saving or converting to JPEG.
hmm I checked up on this and it seems it will only go under 1 MB if I cut the quality in half, but before that at high quality it saved at 3.2 MB, where the other saved 3.0 MB I technically can save it at medium quality, but when I looked at it and did a full comparison, the lower quality one of course is extremely faded. I don't know what you are doing that I am not to get the file size that small without losing quality, but there is obviously something wrong here. I did save it as a jpeg though since I have the original file, though it was saved from the .png file, but I am not sure if that would make a difference.
PoisonArrow* Zophia, that pic I worked constantly on for along time, and it was really hard, I tried to make it look like that picture, because I used that picture to LOOK at I didn't touch the other picture.
As such, you should have posted a link to the picture you used for reference and explained what you did. Some thought you had simply blurred the original pic.
For the record, imitating a specific work of someone else earns negative credit when I'm judging, unless done as a parody (like the nazi poster someone made for the theme I'm judging).
Are you talking about computer drawn image or a scanned one?
You could take down the physical size of the picture? Depending of your zoom of course, but if you have like around 50%, so you can take a lot away from the size and still save with high quality. Just thought to mention this in case you haven't tried it out yet
