Hello Members,

I recently sent you all an email about the new website. Hopefully you have had an opportunity to stop by and have a look. Starting in 2019 we will be running our competitions through the new website. In advance of this and to allow us to test some of the setup, we would like your help in running a test in November as part of the “Picture of the Year” competition. What we would like you to do is submit your photos through the new website in addition to the existing link you receive each month.

There are a few differences to note with the new website for competitions. Unlike the current method for submitting photos, you will not receive a unique link in email each month. The club competitions will be pre-configured on the website, which you access via your member login. This means that you can upload photos as far in advance as you prefer.

Also, you will upload a digital image of all of your photographs – including the ones that you normally print. This allows us to have a copy of all of the photos which members can view through the site at the end of the competition.  To access the competition, log into the members area of the website and do the following:

  1. Select the “Members” button from the home page
  2. Select the “Enter a club competition” button
  3. Select the button which says “Picture of the Year”
  4. You will now see a screen where you can upload up to 6 photographs. For each photo you want to upload:
    1. Select the category which applies to the photo
    2. Enter the title of your photo – this is just the title NOT the name of the file which is different (see below for how to name your files)
    3. Select the image upload button to select your photo. Note that the 2 Megabyte upload limit and size of 1900×1200 applies to each photo. (if you want to reload there is a “clear” button).
  5. Select the save and upload button at the bottom. The photos will be saved against the competition. You can return to this page any time if you want to update the entries


Follow
this link to read about how to name your photo files.

We’ll close the competition off at the same time as per the existing upload approach, e.g. the Sunday before the competition night. If you have any issues/questions please drop Elaine or myself a note at – elaine.holliday@ymail.com as I’ll be away during November.

Thanks,

Dave

Webmaster