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Contest reminder: 'When Darkness Falls'Darkness falls across the land . . .
The midnight hour is close at hand . . .
Creatures crawl in search of blood . . .
To terrorize your neighborhood!
- Michael Jackson, Thriller
You decide what happens when darkness falls!
Is it macabre? Is it fantasy? Is it emotional?
It is up to you.
Welcome to our 2012 Photomanipulation Contest, "When Darkness Falls."
This contest is being held by ^Aeirmid and ~The-Sacred-Space.
We are grateful to Community Relations for backing this contest.
Any photomanipulator can join, and all are welcome.

Your task is to complete the sentence:
When darkness falls, _____
using a photomanipulation!
[In other words: Show us what happens when Darkness falls!]
You can interpret the sentence to mean anything you want.
It doesn't have to be dark or horror/macabre,
but it must be very clear that

Manip Challenges #003I wanted to do this last weekend, but ended up doing everything but this

But here they finally are: our third edition of the Manip Challenges!

I hope there will be as much participation as last time (though I have to admit, reaching over 30 entries in the middle of the vacation period might be a bit optimistic - I suppose you've been spoiling me so far

) In any case, it's about having a challenge and not about breaking any participation records, so let's just get it on

I can't wait to see all your gorgeous entries!

Please don't forget to credit and notify all resource providers you use stock of - including the challenge stock!
The Rules
You are given 8 stock images (see below) of which you have to use at least TWO in a way that we don't have to go hunting for them with a looking glass. You can use additional stock, but I ask you not to use premades - this is a challenge for your skills, not for someone else's. Your entry has to be a p

When Angels Fly Contest: ClosedI'm going to close the contest at 10:30 AM Central Time just to give everyone a chance to do last minute touches

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

The other side of Me - CONTEST WINNERS

:iconsupernatural-art: :iconhighqualityart: :iconpsychoartistunited:
DEADLINE
from 23th June to 31th August
Its the darkness in your soul, the breath behind you ..
It's a thief in the night to come and grab you..
It can creep up inside you and consume you.
A disease of the mind, it controls you.
Is it good, bad or lunatic?
Wiht this words of random lyrics, i give you the theme for this contest

Show me your other self, the one that you usualy hide, the one that talks to you inside your mind, the one you wish to be, or the one you created yourself.
So many options to portraid, everybody is welcome to join us! Fan art is welcome, be shure to use Legal resources if manipulated, and of course originality is always your best choice. All type of art except Literature.
PS: dont submitt them to this groups, i will request them for you to the right folders

RULES

CONTEST: Mythical Forest World (RESULT !)~ * The 3 winners have been chosen depending on creativity, the story and the quality of the work.
Congratulations to you 3 ! :iconpinklilyplz: :iconpinkballoonplz:
And thank you to all the participants for submitted such great artworks ! ~ *
1st :iconsonamy-25:
:iconkawaiistarloveplz: The Black Key: Blue Forest :iconkawaiistarloveplz:

2nd :iconaldafea:
:iconkawaiistarloveplz: Fen Fires :iconkawaiistarloveplz:

3rd :iconME72NL:
:iconkawaiistarloveplz: Last Forest-Entry Coupling :iconkawaiistarloveplz:

* Tell me if you want offer a prize for winners and/or participants of this contest (it can be Llamas,

, drawings, manip

Collaboration Contest: Dark Halloween (UPDATE!!)UPDATED DATES AND PRIZES
Hi there

Sign-ups now CLOSED!
SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATED PRIZES!
Hello from the admins of #TheArtOfManipulation! We would really like to revive the mentoring aspect of our group and we are going to start by having a Collaboration Contest.

How it Will Work
For this contest, two or more artists must team up and collaborate to create an entry. One artist must be at the intermediate/expert level and the other must be a beginner. We (the admins) will decide which class you fall into and assign participants into teams (requests will be considered if there is a specific person with whom you want to partner). We hope that this contest will create new friendships and allow beginning photomanipulators to learn something new

.
The Rules

You must note the group #TheArtOfManipulation no later than September 4, 2012. Title the note "Collab Contest" and

CLOSED - Sun and Moon ContestThis contest is now closed - winners and honourable mentions will be annouced in a week. Good luck to all who entered!
Deviants are encouraged to be creative; as long as the comments explain how the piece links back to one or both of the theme topics (Sun and/or Moon) it will be accepted.
See this journal for examples using a different theme http://fantasymuse.deviantart.com/journal/?offset=1 or the bottom of this journal featuring some amazing Sun and Moon deviations to inspire you
There are two categories that you can enter under: Digital Art and Stock. You may enter both categories once.
Each category will have a first, second and third place, as well as 5 honourable mentions from either category. If you wish to donate anything as a prize, please let me know via comment on this journal or via note. Any and all donations are greatly appreciated, and donators will be featured in a special "Donators Feature" at the end of the contest.
Opening Date: 12th August, 2012
Closing D

Fairy Contest (CLOSED):iconmh1plz::iconmh2plz::iconmh3plz::iconmh4plz::iconmh5plz:
I have found a lot of wonderful things and your patience and work are very impressed. I say thank you to all of you for your participation and you interest in our contest. It was a true pleasure to discover all new participation and it brings always in my day a new joy. You have found creativity and imagination in yourself and I'm very happy that you have shared that with us.
But I have to choose winners, so I have watched on the similarities with the original model (me ) and/or the originality to create an universe in harmony with my conception of the fairy things in relation with the nature.

:iconmh1plz::iconmh2plz::iconmh3plz::iconmh4plz::iconmh5plz:
1st :iconBlacklight-candy:
:iconkawaiistarloveplz: Pearly Dew :iconkawaiistarloveplz:

:iconblossom-lullabies:: This one is very special to me. The first thing tha

Magical Character Contest Is now Closed.Contest Closed
Hi to All
The Magical Character contest is now Closed.
Thank you to all that participated in our Contest and Good Luck to all of you. Judging will take to the end of the Week and the Winners will be announced by Monday the following week. Here is our link to how our Judging takes place: http://fav.me/d3lkeix If you would like to check out the fantastic entries: http://digital-art-fantasy.deviantart.com/gallery/37218999
THE MAGICAL CHARACTER CONTEST
This is our New Contest for May- June 2012 and it's all about Magical Characters (Examples: Witches, Elf's, Fairy's, Warlocks, ) that's all there is to it. Must be a new piece.- Check out the examples further down. :iconarrowdownplz:
. Particpate & Create and most important have fun.
Start Date
Start date is the 18/05/2012
End date is the 30/06/2012
The Rules
Please read the rules below before submitting!

Must be a member of DAF

Seven Virtues ContestIn celebration of reaching 1000 watchers I would like to hold a contest, the contest theme will be THE SEVEN VIRTUES.
When Pope Gregory defined the seven deadly sins that we should avoid, he also included a counter-balancing set of values that we should espouse and adopt. These are: Faith, Hope, Charity, Fortitude, Justice, Prudence, Temperance
This contest will be open to all visual media's and will be judged on originality, execution, technique, impact and the last day for submission will be August 25th
Rules
1. Must be a new piece created for this contest
2. Must be submitted before August 25th at midnight
3. You Must link to this journal on your entry
4. Please indicate which virtue you are portraying in your artwork
When you are done your entry, just note me with the link and I will add it to the folder.
Prizes
1st place
300 points from me and a feature
100 points and a feature from :iconsweedies:
100 points and a feature from :iconkimsol:
2nd place
200 points from me and a featur

- Photomanip Contest -Bravery
Start Date: June 26, 2012
End Date: September 15, 2012
Theme: Bravery
Your mission is to create a manipulation that somehow expresses bravery. You will not be given anymore information than that. How you choose to portray it is up to you and only you!
Judging: This contest will be judged by me. I will not accept other judging offers.
I will not be judging by personal preference nor will I choose any "friend" to win. I will be judging based on technique, originality, and effort. I will not go easy on you if you are a beginner, your art will be judged just as fairly as the others.
Rules
Sorry guys, I guess I should have added this earlier, but I was being pressured to get off the computer.
> Manipulations only
> Slapping a filter over an image is not acceptable. You must use multiple images
> Any animal may be the subject (I don't care if its a friggin okapi, as long as it fits the theme)
> If I have any suspicion

Points Drive!!!I am campaigning harder than the presidential candidates are now! LOL
Super Group Points Drive!
We need points, sorry to ask!!!
If you have a few to spare would be great!
The group currently has 4450, some points will be paid out for this contest, so we are looking to try to get another
600 points here.
I also want to give a BIG THANKS to those that have given to us in the past, you are awesome!
I hate to ask times are tough for everyone now, but I have to ask.
THANKS!
If you ever want to see our points I have 2 widgets here at the group that you can check on to see all our points and the distribution of them.
Bless you all!
OUR CONTEST IS STILL GOING ON!
Get your contest entries coming in!! I know you wanna!!
Amazing entries so far!
Come all you manipulators, show us what you can do with a challenge like this!
"WHAT IS YOUR THEME?" is the name of our contest.
You must use a required stock, see below!
WooHoo.. this will be fun!!
Submission dates:
August 7, thru

Satanic Contest OpenThis months is the turn of the Satanic .
I hope you will enjoy this contest and all enter.

Contest start 18th June
Contest End 1st August
Contest Gallery http://whats-the-piont.deviantart.com/gallery/37762627
The prizes ar the same as always .

1st place I month premium membership + 150 points + display of winning work in winners gallery + llama

2nd place I moth premium membership + 100 points + display of winning work in winners gallery + llama

3rd Place 1 month premium membership 75 points + display of winning work in winners gallery + llama
Rule's

One entry per person

All work must be of good standard

All work has to be in by the 1st August

All manipulations must be credited

All work must be good quality, no blurry image's or WIPS

All entry's must comply with the group rules
:bulletpurple:The name of this piece must have

"Out of the Dark"- Priced Contest 2 DAYYou still have 2 Days to submit your entries before the submissions will be closed and the voting is to start.
We have some wonderful entries already, so go ahead and submit yours!

Before I will explain everything for the Contest I have to make a really saddening Announcement:
Our dear Donna (~kitiekat4U) is not able to lead the group anymore, due to private problems.
I will take this group over, as well as our sister group :iconManip-Contest-Award:
We will all miss you so much, darling! Thank you for everything you´ve done for us! Remember: You will always be a part of this group!

CONTEST:
Theme: Out of the Dark
You are free to choose wheter your image will be in Dark, Emotional or Fantasy Style.
Rules:

Only ONE entry per contestant

No Advanced or Beginners Folder - show us what you´ve learned!

Every stock image has to be credited with the account and the direkt link

There has to be your signature in i

Jolly Winter - Frozen Contest! WINNERS
- Website - Commissions OPEN - Blog Index - Shadowness - Tutorials - Thumblr - My Daily Deviations - Resources RULES - Dark Portafolio

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Create Your Own Fantasy Photomanipulation Contest

Journal Entry: Thu Jul 5, 2012, 5:08 PM

The contest is over and the winners have been announced! You can check out the winning entries here:

The Create Your Own Fantasy Contest Winners!Hiya Darlings,
After much debate and tough decision making, it's time to announce the winners of our "Create Your Own Fantasy" contest!! Congratulations to the winners! I'd also like to thank everyone who participated. The entries were all amazing and it was really hard to decide on the winning pieces. The prizes will be awarded soon. I will be sending the donators a reminder tonight.

First Place Winner:

:icondesignbykatt: "Seeing Eye to Eye"

Second Place Winner:

:iconybsilon: "Sunday Afternoon Promenade"

Third Place Winner: :spotlight-right: :star:
:icondiendhkz: "Message From Heaven"

:star: :spotlight-left: Honorable Mention: :spotlight-right: :star:
:iconnatspearlcreation:

Create Your Own Fantasy Photomanipulation Contest

Sponsored By:

and *somadjinn

Featured By:

Hi and Welcome to the Create Your Own Fantasy Photomanipulation Contest! What do you envision when you think about the fantasy genre? Is it a brave knight battling a fearsome dragon, or do the fairies come dancing in the moonlight beneath a castle window? This is your chance to express exactly what the fantasy genre means to you! Create your ideal scene and enter to win! This contest is hosted by several groups across

to celebrate the creativity that the fantasy genre inspires in artists. Not only will the winners of the contest be featured in the groups, there is a chance to win some fantastic prizes as well. Be sure to check this journal often. The list of donations and features keeps growing!

Contest Deadline: Sunday, August 5th, 2012

Contest Judges:

Once your entry is completed, submit it to #The-Stock-Directory’s “Create Your Own Fantasy Contest” Folder.

(Note:You do not have to be a member of the group to submit to the contest folder. If for some reason you have difficulty submitting it, send the group a note and we will request it for you.

Only contest entries will be accepted to the folder, however.)

Official Contest Guidelines:

You must use at least two required stocks in your photomanipulation. One stock from any gallery in #The-Stock-Directory and one stock from freestock.ca (Note: freestock.ca is a free stock resource website created by our member *somadjinn )

The contest entry should also include:

- A Landscape and Architecture stock (partial or whole)

- Either a model or an animal (or both)

Only one entry per person will be accepted.

Please put in your artists comments: "This was created for

and

's "Create Your Own Fantasy" Contest." This is so we know that you intend the submission to be your contest entry.

All stock resources must be properly credited to be accepted into the contest. (All entries will be checked for stock proper stock crediting before they are accepted. Don't know how to credit your stock resources? Check out this tutorial:[link])

Considering that this contest is open to our youngest members, submissions containing nudity, sexual themes, or extreme violence/gore will not be accepted. Mild violence or battle scenes between good and evil are acceptable, but let's try to keep it PG-13 for our younger contestants.

All other stock must come from valid

stock resources. (This means: No celebrities, copyrighted images, Google Image, Flickr, Photobucket, Wiki, etc. images will be accepted.)

:thumb239861946:

PE S&R Sourcing Your ResourcesSourcing Your Resources
You may think that the creation and sharing of stock and resources is a no brainer. Clearly however its not, and there are a growing number of deviants who for some reason or another seem to not be able to grasp the basic principles.
As the last article we will be launching for Stock & Resources Project Educate week, we are going to attempt to lay it out for you in clear and easy to understand terms.
What YOU own
The gallery details for stock and resources read:
Gallery Info: Resources & Stock Images
Resources submitted by deviants for others to use in their own works and/or learn from.
Gallery Info: Stock Images
Stock Photography which the provider has granted a licence for incorporation into other Deviant artists work.
By submitting work into the stock and resources galleries, be they a photograph of your cat, a pack of brushes you have created, a texture you have developed, or a tutorial you've spent weeks resea

Problems with Stock ResourcesLock, Stock, and Barrel
It unfortunately appears that it is once again time to talk about proper stock resources again. I'll be addressing this in this week's CEA Update but I wanted to discuss it a bit informally here first.
I have a hope that some day the issue of stock resources will get straightened out because it really is not as complicated or as confusing as many people are currently forcing it to be, but I guess the nature of the internet pushes people to simply pull the old smash and grab.
I'm going to run down a brief listing of the various problems and pit falls currently affecting the issue of stock resources in general.
The Old Switcheroo
Now we all know there are a good number of legitimate, legal stock resource sites out there with some being free and some being pay sites. A good chunk of you all can name them off the top of your head so I won't bother to list them myself.
Now regardless of which one we might be taking about, they all share pretty much a common ru

Contest Prizes:

First Place Winner

2,000

from *somadjinn and #The-Stock-Directory

100

, a Llama, and Journal Feature from *katbry

200

from *Malleni-Stock

from *Urceola

100

from ~HattieForest

100

from =CelticStrm-Stock

Journal Feature from #The-Stock-Directory

3 Exclusive Stock Packs and a Journal Feature from =CelticStrm-Stock

Exclusive Stock Pack and Journal Feature from =DamselStock

Exclusive Stock Pack from =CathleenTarawhiti  [link]

Exclusive Stock Pack from *YBSilon-Stock

Exclusive Stock Pack from *pranile [link]

Exclusive Stock Pack and Journal Feature from *syccas-stock

Exclusive Stock Pack from *MontvalentStock   [link]

Exclusive Stock Pack, Feature,  and a Llama from =Amoretdoesntdrawwell

Exclusive Stock Pack from =kuschelirmel-stock

Exclusive Stock Pack from ~10eke-stock

Journal Feature from ~ninquetari

Journal Feature from =EigthDegreeBites

Journal Feature from *FuchsiaBud

A Llama and Journal Feature from ~BloodMoonEquinox

A Llama from ~Maiden-ElfStock

A Llama from ~Bril-Stock

Support Stamp from =dhik-a

Second Place Winner

1,000

from *somadjinn and #The-Stock-Directory

100

from *Malleni-Stock

from *Urceola

50

from =CelticStrm-Stock

Journal Feature from #The-Stock-Directory

2 Exclusive Stock Packs and a Journal Feature from =CelticStrm-Stock

Exclusive Stock Pack and a Journal Feature from =DamselStock

Exclusive Stock Pack from *YBSilon-Stock

Exclusive Stock Pack from *pranile [link]

Exclusive Stock Pack from *MontvalentStock  [link]

Exclusive Stock Pack, Feature,  and a Llama from =Amoretdoesntdrawwell

Exclusive Stock Pack from =kuschelirmel-stock

Exclusive Stock Pack from ~10eke-stock

Journal Feature from *syccas-stock

Journal Feature from ~ninquetari

Journal Feature from *FuchsiaBud

A Llama and Journal Feature from *katbry

Journal Feature from =EigthDegreeBites

A Llama and Journal Feature from ~BloodMoonEquinox

A Llama from ~Maiden-ElfStock

A Llama from ~Bril-Stock

Support Stamp from =dhik-a

Third Place Winner

500

from *somadjinn and #The-Stock-Directory

100

from *Malleni-Stock

from *Urceola

25

from =CelticStrm-Stock

Journal Feature from #The-Stock-Directory

1 Exclusive Stock Pack and a Journal Feature from =CelticStrm-Stock

Exclusive Stock Pack and a Journal Feature from =DamselStock

Exclusive Stock Pack from *YBSilon-Stock

Exclusive Stock Pack from *pranile [link]

Exclusive Stock Pack from *MontvalentStock [link]

Exclusive Stock Pack, Feature, and a Llama from =Amoretdoesntdrawwell

Exclusive Stock Pack from =kuschelirmel-stock

Exclusive Stock Pack from ~10eke-stock

Journal Feature from *syccas-stock

Journal Feature from ~ninquetari

Journal Feature from *FuchsiaBud

A Llama and Journal Feature from *katbry

Journal Feature from =EigthDegreeBites

A Llama and Journal Feature from ~BloodMoonEquinox

A Llama from ~Maiden-ElfStock

A Llama from ~Bril-Stock

Support Stamp from =dhik-a

If you would like to be a featured prize contributor, send =CelticStrm-Stock a note and you will be added to the list!

We will be accepting prize contributions up until the end of the contest. After the contest is concluded and the winners have been featured, all contest contributors (groups and individuals) will be featured in the next journal from #The-Stock-Directory as a thank you!

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