REGISTRATION Fill the form 2 Choose your options 3 Verify your data 4 Your personal account 4 PAYMENT Step by step 5 Verify your registration 8

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1 REGISTRATION Fill the form 2 Choose your options 3 Verify your data 4 Your personal account 4 PAYMENT Step by step 5 Verify your registration 8 SUBMISSION Image requirements 9 How to set your files 9 How to send your images 10 Uploading your images 11 Verify your submission 12

2 REGISTRATION: Fill the form Registration can only be done throught the official website Registrations sent on paper or via won t be accepted. Once registration is done the user receives their author code, which is fundamental for logging in. Images should be sent by uploading them through the form found in the Submission page under the Participate button. Images receive a special code. Once they are in our servers they remain anonymous so judges can t tell who the authors are. To begin click on the Participate button Choose a state only if you live in Italy Phone numbers are not mandatory, but highly advisable Please enter a valid , or you won t be able to complete your registration. Registration Click on STEP 1 to fill the registration form First step is filling out the form with your information

3 REGISTRATION: choose your options Select a method to send your images The author can can upload his images on our servers using the form (recommended method) or send them to our offices on a DVD, CD or USB stick (non-returnable). If the latter option is chosen you will have to download the form, print it and fill it out. Once it s complete you can send it to the address indicated on the website. Pre-ordering the catalog The pre-order is not mandatory. Participants can pre-order a catalog for 14 euros instead of 30, plus the shipping costs. The system calculates the exact amount depending on the country of destination. For Italy the shipping is 4 euro. Payment specifications The participation fee is 24 euros (12 euros if the author is entering the kid section.) Although the payment is made only after sending the author s registration, on this step you must indicate what will be your preferred method of payment. If after sending the registration form you want to send the payment using a different methrod from that which was indicated please let us know in an sent to: questions@oasisphotocontest.com Data consent It s important that you accept the law protected declaration about the treatment of your personal data. Use of images All my pictures and all the image rights are my property, nevertheless I hereby give permission to organizers to use them, but not exclusively, for the following reasons: publishing of the official catalogue of the contest, photographic exhibition, publishing online, realization of an audiovisual presentation about the contest, publishing in OASIS magazine and, relating winning pictures, release of the news to the press and online. Each use of the images shall be referred to the contest anyway and every time the author shall be credited. Other uses are not allowed. To register, the competitor shall accept all the rules about the use of the images participanting to the contest. Registration will be considered completed once the participation fee is received. It is possible to upload the authors photos on our even in the absence of payment, these photos will be allowed to compete only with the balance of the share. Control code Type the code in the small box below the image and submit your form.

4 REGISTRATION: verify your data Overview Once you ve clicked on the Submit button on the bottom of the registration form, and before your information is sent, you ll see a page containing the data you are submitting. Please verify and make sure that everything you re sending is correct. If not, click on the Back button. When you send your form you will receive an containing important information, such as your user code and password. Please check your spam folder in case you don t find the in the Inbox. STEP 1 Control your information. The contains your author code and password, necessary to have acces to your personal page and the links to make the payment. REGISTRATION: your personal account On the you will find a link to login to your page to send your images. Enter the code and the password you received. If you have any problems with the login, try copying and pasting. Sometimes some characters are misinterpreted. Ie: the capital i can look like a lower case L, the letter o can look like the number zero and vice versa. These simple errors can be the cause of the most common login problems. Other login problems and errors include double registration. Please keep your code and, if possible, don t create more than one account. If you want to cancel your current account and create another one, please send us an to: questions@oasisphotocontest.com Login to your personal page in order to send your images.

5 How to send your Payment The you will receive from us contains 2 links. The first link will direct you to CartaSì and it s meant for users that want to pay by credit card. For other payment methods, including Paypal, you can click on the second link. These two payment links can also be found in your personal page on the website. You can log in your personal account with your code and password. To access your personal account go back to the main registration menu and click on STEP 3 In addition to the links to make the payment, the you receive contains your author code and password.

6 How to send your Payment To find out more about other payment methods that we accept click on the link found in your or simply click on STEP 3 on the wesbite and log in using your code and password.

7 How to send your Payment There are three main methods to send the payment online: - Credit card - Paypal - Bank money transfer and two offline methods - Bank money transfer - Postal money orders To learn how to pay with your credit card go to page 5 To pay with Paypal go to STEP 2: Payment and click on the Paypal button found on the page. Electronic bank transfer, use the information you find for traditional bank NOTE Once you sent your participation fee, it might take 1 to 2 days to switch your payment status from not registered to registered Bank transfer: Beneficiary: AITN Cuneo Address: Via Aldo Moro Alba CN Bank: Banca Carige sede Alba IBAN: IT59 Q Codice Bik o Swift code: CARI ITG1 297 Description of payment: Oasis PhotoContest Registration: Please don t forget to include your author code Postal money orders, at the moment accepting money orders only from Italy. Procure a money order at a post office and fill it out as follows: Numero Conto Corrente: Intestato a: AITN - via Fornace Sorba 2 Alba CN Causale: Iscrizione Oasis PhotoContest Concorrente: insert your author code in here.

8 Payment registration Once the payment has been sent you will receive a notification that the payment was sent, regardless of the method you choose - CartaSì and Paypal will send you an . - If you pay by money order or money transfer you will always have a receipt that you should keep. In this way you know the payment was sent. Asking us for further confirmation won t be necessary so we ask you to avoid sending us if that is the only question you have. You ll find the status of your payment on your personal page. If the payment was not made the images won t be accepted for the competition. Registration on hold If you log on to your control panel to upload your images, you will find this text, it means that your payment has yet to be registered. However If you ve sent your payment, this doesn t mean that it wasn t received. Keep in mind that the registration of payments usually takes 1-2 days. Registration of payments sent offline might take more than 2 days. The switch of payment status from unpaid to paid does not happen automatically like it does on auction websites. You can send your images even if you see the unregistered payment notification, but your images won t be admitted to the competition until you see on your control panel that your payment was registered Successful registration If you log on to your control panel on STEP 3 and you find a notification indicating that your payment has been successful registered, it means that all your images have been accepted to the competition

9 Image requirements Each competitor can participate in one or more sections. For each section the maximum number of entries is 3 images, with the exception of the section Storyboard which allows a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 9 images. The photographs must be sent as digital files. Photos shot with film will be accepted, however they must be digitalized in the required format prior to submission. Photos are expected to be sent in high resolution (300 dpi.) When printed the shorter side must be at least 15 cm (6 inches), or 1800 pixels. All works must show an accurate reflection of the subject and the scene just as they appeared to the author at the moment of shooting. The addition, duplication, deletion or moving of objects in pictures won't be accepted, nor will the use of artistic digital filters and effects. Authors must keep the original files, as produced by the camera, in RAW, TIFF, JPG, or DNG format, or as negatives or slide films. The author will be asked to send the original files if necessary. If the author didn't keep the RAW or DNG files, they will have to present the shots that followed and preceded the image in question. If the author fails to provide the jury with any of the previously mentioned files, the submitted photo might be disqualified. Digitally altered photos that were modified beyond optimization purposes will be disqualified. Adjustments of color, contrast, brightness and sharpness, removal of dust and scratches and cutting are accepted. Preparing your images When preparing files to send to the contest please bear in mind the limits of post production operations allowed following to the rules and regulations of the contest and avoid major manipulation of pixels. Clonature, cancellation, duplication of pixels are not allowed. Adjustments of color, contrast, brightness and sharpness are accepted as long as it s not overused or exaggerated. Heavy interventions such as excessive airbrush will be considered a negavite point by the Jury. Photos are expected to be sent in high resolution, this means that images should be saved with 300 pixels of resolution at the very least. In print the shorter side of the image should have a width of 15 cm (6 inches). All works must show an accurate reflection of the subject and the scene just as they appeared to the author at the moment of shooting. The jury will examine the photographs without considering the authors, this means the authors will remain anonymous until the winning works are selected. Please bear this in mind when you submit your images and do not add any signatures, logos or graphic elements that could identify you as the author. Photos that have been digitally altered beyond standard optimization will be disqualified. The preferred format for files is jpg. Tiff and eps files are also accepted.

10 How to send your images Re-naming files (only if sending via traditional mail) When you upload your images on the website the system automatically renames your files. It s no use renaming your digital files if you upload them on our servers. You would only need to upload them using your personal account on oasisphotocontest.com However, if you intend to send your images through traditional mail either on a CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, it is necessary that you manually rename your files following the system s way. So in this case files must be renamed individually following the pattern we present here: Author code + underscore, low dash + sectio numer + number of the photo. Please don t add any spaces. The author code is the code you receive right after sending your registration. It is unique and it is made by the system. It consists of a letter and three digits ie: e213. The only way of getting your author code is by registrating yourself to the contest. Registration can only be done on oasisphotcontest.com. The letter indicates the section you re submitting your image under. Every section is represented by a specific letter*.the number inditates the progressive number of that particular file. For insteance, if you submit more than one image under the same section, the first will get the number 1, the second the number 2 and so on. You can submit 3 images per section, except for Storyboard which allows 9 images. You can send your files to: AITN, Via Sorba 2, 12051, ALBA (CN) Italy AUTHOR CODE UNDERSCORE SECTION LETTER e213_a3 NUMBER OF YOUR IMAGE File naming example *A LETTERS FOR EACH SECTION LANDSCAPES = P PEOPLE = G MAMMALS = M PLANTS = V BIRDS = U PETS = A ALL THE OTHER ANIMALS = T STORYBOARD = F BABY = B UNDERWATER = S JUNIOR = J

11 Uploading your images Photo title Every picture that you send is expected to have title and a short caption. The TITLE of the photo is completely up to the author. Usually the title of the work is linked to the subject that inspired the author. Information about your photo the DESCRIPTION should be written below the title. It should be a brief description of the image, perhaps with relevant information about the picture, ie: the subject, location or moment of shooting, and any other information that the author would like to give always regarding the picture. Image upload button Simply click on the button that reads Search and select the file that you want to send. Click on the Search button to select the file you want to submit to the contest. The maximum weight allowed is 20 MB per photograph, but we stronly suggest that the files you send are not heavier than 4 MB (per image.)heavier files will result in a long and tedius uploading process. Keep in mind that ADSL connections might be fast when downloading files, but very slow when uploading them on the net. We recommend not to wait until the last day to send your images as our servers might become very slow due to the amount on users sending on that day. Scegli il file Click on the button that reads Scegli il file to look your for file. Once you ve selected it you should see the name of your file. Invia file Click on Invia File to upload your selected file and please wait until the window is closed. When you are ready to send your file or files simply click on Send Images If you don t click on Send Images your files won t be uploaded on our servers Confirmation page If your files we successfully sent, you will be automatically redirected to the confirmation page. Once you ve sent your first images you can always go back to your control panel and send more images.

12 Verify your submission Once your images were uploaded you can see them on your control panel. You might want to make sure that the files sent correspond to the photographs you wanted to submit. If you made a mistake sending the wrong file, changed your mind about the photo you want to submit, or got an error during the uploading process you can ask us for the removal of said image. Our webmaster will delete the photo you want to cancel or replace it with a new photo. MODEL OF CANCELLATION REQUEST I, (name of the author) contestant of Oasis photocontest registered with author code: (insert author code) password: (insert password) hereby ask for the removal of the file sent under the (insert section) category, in posizion (1, 2 or 3) Signature: Send your request to: questions@oasisphotocontest.com Above you can see the picture P1 was uploaded with a title and a description under the landscape section. The Search field disappears. You can see the file you uploaded by clicking on See Image. The second picture P2 is missing its title and description. It's always possible to change the title and description of images. Once you re ready to send your files click on Send images. However you can t change or delete uploaded files. If you want to do so please get in contact with us. You can upload your pictures at different times. Deadline for entries is December 31 If you would like to delete the picture you ve submitted, send a cancellation request