PPChallenge - new feature! - DPChallenge Forums

11/25/2006 09:08:53 PM · #1

Hooray, I've added a new feature! (Thank God for holiday vacations!)

DPC has it's ribbons - I've added medals to the PPChallenges: Meet gold

, silver,

, and bronze

.

The medals are displayed on the home page, the challenge pages (11, 10, 9, etc.), and in your stats page. The stats page is also what other users see when they click on your name anywhere on the site - like the profile pages here.

Medals have been retroactively added for all previous challenges (excluding #1, which was not hosted on the site).

Note that there was a tie for third place in challenge #11 (and there have been others). The home page is only able to show 3 images, so it's random who gets the limelight. However, both users (traquino98 and Noel_ZH in this case) get a bronze medal. Ties will become more rare as the number of voters increases.

Speaking of number of voters, there are 91 registered users now on PPChallenge! Thanks for signing up, all, and keep inviting your DPC friends! The more, the merrier!

Feel free to reply here or PM me with ideas and suggestions or improvements and new features.

And of course, congrats to

freakin_hilarious for his winning edit in Challenge #11:

And Challenge #14: Shoreline is now open to submissions - thanks to

keegbow for this submission:

Cheers,
-Jeff

De Sousa

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

11/25/2006 09:21:02 PM · #2

At the Site PPC for the cahllenge #14 where can I find the original?
I can only see the 640px version

Message edited by author 2006-11-25 21:21:32.

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

11/25/2006 09:24:23 PM · #3

Originally posted by De Sousa:

At the Site PPC for the cahllenge #14 where can I find the original?
I can only see the 640px version

After you register, it shows up below, near where you can upload your submission. A link called "Click here to download the original image at full resolution".

This question has been asked before, maybe I'll try to make it more clear. Thanks.

-Jeff

Message edited by author 2006-11-25 21:24:46.

jeannybeany

Canon PowerShot SD200

11/25/2006 10:45:50 PM · #4

i just joined... i hope to learn some PP skills...

SJCarter

Canon EOS-7D

11/25/2006 10:57:28 PM · #5

I just joined as well... Looks cool! :-)

Apple iPhone 5

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED

11/25/2006 10:59:27 PM · #6

Okay. Everyone stop joining now. This is my only chance to win a virtual ribbon. ;-)

11/26/2006 01:43:27 AM · #7

By the way: you are now be able to leave comments on images after voting has finished. Be careful, though - you currently can't edit them. I'll do that another day... I'm sleepy! =)

-Jeff

yanko

Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon

11/26/2006 01:57:20 AM · #8

That site looks great. I'm surprised I haven't seen all of this before.

jdannels

Nikon D300s

Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM for Nikon

11/26/2006 02:10:19 AM · #9

Originally posted by yanko:

That site looks great. I'm surprised I haven't seen all of this before.

Yeah I just found it to and I thought a bunch of the challenges were done just through threads, I am in #13, but I don't quite know when the voting starts. Another wonderful way to waste time :)

Qart

Canon EOS-30D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

11/26/2006 02:11:37 AM · #10

I missed it as well... don't know how... :)
I'm in!

jdannels

Nikon D300s

Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM for Nikon

11/26/2006 02:22:23 AM · #11

Originally posted by De Sousa:

At the Site PPC for the cahllenge #14 where can I find the original?
I can only see the 640px version

You can only do one challenge at a time, and since you are signed up for #13 you can't do #14, I am in the same situation.
Edit De Sousa, you can enter #14 now that #13 is in the voting stages :)

Message edited by author 2006-11-26 03:18:43.

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED

11/26/2006 10:03:37 AM · #12

Well, it looks like challenge #14 has filled up. I'm glad to see there's a lot of interest.

I'll post another challenge later today - however, it would help a lot if I could get more submissions for images to edit. It's fun to see how others would edit your shots, but I'm running low on interesting images. =)

In the meantime please vote and comment, and report any problems or suggestions you have.

Oh, and anyone with special characters in your DPC username (like

David.C) - I'm looking into fixing that as well.

Cheers,
-Jeff

Apple iPhone 5

11/26/2006 10:35:45 AM · #13

Originally posted by smurfguy:

Well, it looks like challenge #14 has filled up. I'm glad to see there's a lot of interest.

Why is there a limit to the number of entries?

idnic

Canon EOS-60D

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM

11/26/2006 10:38:48 AM · #14

Originally posted by jhonan:

Originally posted by smurfguy:
Well, it looks like challenge #14 has filled up. I'm glad to see there's a lot of interest.

Why is there a limit to the number of entries?

Because comparing 100 versions of the same image would be difficult if not impossible.

Apple iPhone 5

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED

11/26/2006 11:00:17 AM · #15

Originally posted by idnic:

Because comparing 100 versions of the same image would be difficult if not impossible.

Ah yea, okay - That makes sense.

The Queen of ppchallenge has spoken. :-p

11/26/2006 11:00:33 AM · #16

Originally posted by idnic:

Because comparing 100 versions of the same image would be difficult if not impossible.

Exactly. If anyone has a better idea of how to do this, I'd love to hear it.

My vision was that if theer were a lot of people using it, there would be a lot of image submissions, and it could sustain a lot of simulatneous challanges. But maybe that's not the best method...

Maybe a multi-phased approach to voting (playoffs with elimination and finals with only a handful of images.) Though there'd still be a lot of images to sift through in the "playoff" round.

-Jeff

yanko

Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon

11/26/2006 01:12:53 PM · #17

I like the limit. If you didn't have that then it would degrade the overall quality of the edits, IMO as more and more would have to be done to it just to stand out even though the photo doesn't need it. Basically the same problem the DPC challenges have where people jack up the saturation, sharpeness and only go with the "hit you over the head" cliche ideas just so they can stand out and do well. Less entries means voters might actually look at the photos for more than a half a second.

Message edited by author 2006-11-26 13:15:10.

Stagolee

Kodak Easyshare C180

Canon EF 50mm f1.2L

11/26/2006 01:56:38 PM · #18

Originally posted by smurfguy:

Originally posted by idnic:
Because comparing 100 versions of the same image would be difficult if not impossible.

Exactly. If anyone has a better idea of how to do this, I'd love to hear it.

My vision was that if theer were a lot of people using it, there would be a lot of image submissions, and it could sustain a lot of simulatneous challanges. But maybe that's not the best method...

Maybe a multi-phased approach to voting (playoffs with elimination and finals with only a handful of images.) Though there'd still be a lot of images to sift through in the "playoff" round.

-Jeff

Just to throw up some ideas.....

To allow more people to compete you could possibly have two separate competitions one with basic editing rules and the other with advanced editing on the same image run simultaneously or even three competitions with the same image and third rule set being a anything goes?

freakin_hilarious

Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

11/26/2006 02:10:20 PM · #19

A couple thoughts after being part of the site for awhile:

1. If people download the image, they are registered and a spot is held for that challenge whether a picture is submitted or not. Perhaps making it so that the spot is not held, and the first 16 who upload their images are the ones in the challenge.

2. Increase the amount of entries to 20 or so, allowing for just a few more folks to join in.

3. Always have two or more challenges going at once, but everyone is only allowed to enter one of those at a time (just as the exclusive challenges are done). Of course it would help to have more people giving you submissions of originals.

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Sony/Minolta

11/26/2006 07:25:40 PM · #20

Thanks for the suggestions.

Ok, so here's what I've done for now:

- Introduced two official rule sets: DPC Advanced Editing rules and PPC Creative Editing rules. The rule sets show up under the compete page, and when voting/viewing in the "Challenge Description" section.

- Made the compete page more clear as to dates and rules

- Increased the max participants to 20 (I may increase this further for PPC Creative Editing challenges, as the output images will tend to be more varied, I would think.) And like you said, there often aren't as many submissions as registrants, anyway.

I also created 2 perks for people who submit images:

- The original author is now be able to join the challenge even if it is full.

- Added an "originals medal" of the stats page

, which is awarded to people who's original image submissions are used in editing challenges. As a small token of thanks for contributing. Shows up after voting is complete. See it in action on the stats pages of idnic and 777STAN.

By the way, thanks to

timfythetoo, who submitted this great image - which is now open for submissions as Challenge #15:

Cheers,
-Jeff

junior_z

Sony DSLR-A700

11/26/2006 10:32:58 PM · #21

In the results page, I'd suggest not to show the original pic everytime I browse through entries. Everytime it downloads, eats traffic and slows the connection. I'd prefer to see only entries and leave a link to the original.
And also I'd suggest the site remember me, so not to login every new session.

David.C

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

11/27/2006 03:49:20 AM · #22

Originally posted by junior_z:

Not saying it isn't (don't know), but the image should not be downloading every page. The browser cache should hold it long enough to just load from the hard drive instead of re-downloading it.

David

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

11/28/2006 10:05:18 AM · #23

Now that Thanksgiving vacation is over, I may not be as quick at implementing some of these changes, but thanks for the suggestions.

Congrats to

lorene on this very nice edit in Challenge #12:

Tomorrow Challenge #14 will be in the voting stage.

Cheers,
-Jeff

Konador

Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i

11/28/2006 10:08:38 AM · #24

Just a tiny tiny suggestion... Can you make the PPChallenge logo link to the home page? I always click it to no avail :P