Contest Rules and Terms

1. Each participant may only submit one entry per contest round. To be eligible to submit images to the contest, you must join the flickr group and agree to the terms below.

2. Participation is free of charge. Employees of Digital Room, Inc, iStockphoto.com, YouTheDesigner.com, or any affiliate companies of same, contest judges and their immediate family may not participate.

3. You must be at least 18 years old or have reached the age of majority your country/state of citizenship, whichever is older, to participate in this contest. Entries received from individuals under the age of majority will not be judged.

4. One or several of the supplied images must be recognizable as a central part of your design.

5. You may add elements not found in the original images. However, copyright and plagiarism rules apply: you may not use someone else’s material without permission. In cases of doubt, the jury and/or the contest staff may request to see the original image file.

6. Modifying, enhancing or altering someone else’s artwork (excluding the supplied stock photos provided) does not constitute an original, valid contest entry.

7. Your original poster design file must be in CMYK color mode with layers intact, 18×24 (inches) as in Illustrator “.ai” file or Photoshop “.psd”. If you win you will be asked to send the layered original file for verification purposes and also a high resolution PDF version for printing.

8. U-Printing assumes all entries are original creations and the work and property of the entrant with all rights granted therein. The participant retains the copyright of the submitted image.

9. The winners of the contest will be decided by our chosen panel of judges consisting on designers, creative directors and agency owners. The judges’ votes will be based on the following criteria:

- Overall Creativity and Concept
- Creative adaptation of source images
- Visual impact

Full Contest Terms and Conditions:

10. U-Printing.com, Digital Room, Inc., iStockphoto.com and YouTheDesigner.com are not liable for any copyright infringement on the part of the entrant.

11. After the judge’s votes have been tallied, the winner will be asked to submit the original image file for his/her submission for examination (for example: layered PDS file). If this reveals a breach of contest rules/requirements, U-Printing may at their discretion disqualify the winner. Failure/refusal to submit the original image file for examination, will result in the disqualification of the entry, and the entry in second place will move up to first place.

12. U-Printing reserves the right to remove material deemed to be abusive, harmful, harassing, pornographic or in other ways unsuitable for display at www.uprinting.com. We reserve the right to use our discretion on this point.

13. The submitted images will be displayed without watermarks at a size of 500 pixels high/wide on the www.youthedesigner.com/contest and may be syndicated through RSS.

14. The stock images supplied for us in this contest are licensed for the purpose of this contest only. They are not in the public domain and any other use of the stock images, whether for commercial or non-commercial use, require that the images be licensed directly from iStockphoto.com.

15. The submission with the highest score wins. The winner decision will be final, no discussion will be entered into.

16. U-Printing reserves the rights to, if necessary, modify the rules and/or proceedings of the contest, in order to stamp out cheating, fraud, etc. U-Printing has taken the necessary steps to monitor the proceedings of the contest in their entirety, and will actively root out any attempts at cheating.

17. By submitting an entry to this contest, the contestant grants Digital Room, Inc. and its affiliate companies the rights to freely publish said image online or in printed media in relation to the contest, without remuneration. In entering a creation in the contest, the contestant hereby irrevocably grants to Digital Room, Inc. all right, title and interest in and to such creation (including but not limited to the copyright, trademark and other intellectual property rights therein), and any and all ideas and information embodied therein, in perpetuity and throughout the world.

18. Contestant personal information will not be distributed outside of contest sponsor companies.

19. Technical skills Contest Presentation: Once entries are submitted for review, they will be posted to the contest website in thumbnail form. Comments will be allowed on the website. Once the judging period is completed, the winner of the round will be announced.

20. Competition Prizes: The winning entries will receive the following: First Place Winner receives 16 GB Apple iPhone, $250 Printing Credit for UPrinting.com, 300 Credits for iStockPhoto.com, 1 Year Membership to PSDTuts.com and Entry Into the Finalist Round!, Second Place Winner receives $150 Printing Credit for UPrinting.com, 200 Credits for iStockPhoto.com and a 6 Month Membership to PSDTuts.com, Third Place Winner receives $100 Printing Credit for UPrinting.com, 100 Credits for iStockPhoto.com and a 3 Month Membership to PSDTuts.com. In addition to the individual prize winners, the top 10 designers will have their entry printed by U-Printing on (1) 18×24 (inches) digital large format print on their choice of Canvas, Semi-Gloss or High Gloss stocks. Physical prizes cannot be shipped outside the United States and contestants outside the United States will only be eligible to receive the cash equivalents for any prize they are awarded.

21. Entries not complying with the contest rules are subject to disqualification without prior warning.

22. U-Printing assumes no liability for the actions of third parties involved in contest process. U-Printing is not liable for any technical failures on the part of Flickr, iStock, YouTheDesigner.com or any other third party.

23. YouTheDesigner.com is not responsible for awarding any prizes we are simply hosting the contest. Sponsors will be responsible for contacting and providing contest winners with above mentioned prizes.