Announcing the winner of Contrast - The Second International Pixpa Photo Challenge 2010

August 31st, 2010

It’s our pleasure to announce the winner of Contrast – The Second Pixpa Photo Challenge 2010 – Summer Rain by Bob Havard.

The winner was selected from a wide selection of 1200 diverse, evocative expressions that we received as entries for this photo contest. We would like to thank all the participants for the overwhelming response to this contest.

The Winning Prize:
Bob Havard received a Pixpa Pro portfolio website as the winning prize. The website will include 1 year of hosting and support. The winning entry is live on the Pixpa website and the Pixpa Community on FaceBook - www.facebook.com/pixpacommunity. Bob has already created his Pixpa Portfolio website - www.haavardholmefjord.com

A selection of the shortlisted 25 images is available on www.pixpa.com/retrospect2009. The shortlisted finalists received a substantial 25% discount on first year subscription on Pixpa Portfolio websites.

Gurpreet Singh, CEO – Pixpa says, “ We were looking for striking and original images that express Contrast through their subjects – contrast between spaces or shapes, between colors or contrast between themes or protagonists. Bobs’s entry stood out amongst the 25 finalists with its striking contrast between the real and the surreal. Congratulations to Bob for winning the photo challenge and many thanks to everyone who participated and made the photo challenge a success.”

About Pixpa:
Pixpa is a platform to deliver professional portfolio websites to photographers, artists and designers. Pixpa portfolio websites empower creative professionals to easily and successfully leverage the power of the internet to showcase their work and promote their business. For more information Visit http://www.pixpa.com


BBC World Service Trust revamps www.condomcondom.org to showcase its work to promote “safer sex”.

August 19th, 2010

In August 2008, when www.condomcondom.org was launched by the BBC World Service Trust as part of its Condom Normalisation mass media campaign, it was primarily to showcase the campaign and enable people to download the ‘Condom a Cappella’ ringtone. Within the first six weeks, the website got over 3.5 million hits. As a benchmark, it took www.aidsmap.com three years to achieve the same figure and in its first month, the DFID’s www.aidsportal.org received 1/10th of the hit www.condomcondom.org received. It also saw over 200,000 ringtone downloads.

Since then, the Trust’s work on HIV and AIDS has increased substantially. The BBC World Service Trust has been the creative agency for the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO). It works on three of NACO’s thematic areas, condoms, STIs (sexually transmitted infections) and blood safety.

So it was time to relook at www.condomcondom.org in the context of showcasing all the work being done to promote ‘safer sex’. The site needed a revamp to widen its scope, make it more interactive, and bring it up to date. And that’s where Ideaz Inc(www.ideazinc.in) came in. They redesigned the site completely and it was relaunched with new content, new look and lots of different ideas in mid-July, just before the international AIDS 2010 Conference in Vienna. Creative Director Radharani Mitra says, “Ideaz Inc. translated our brief very well – we wanted something simple that would grab eyeballs and bring them back again and again. They got it right at the first presentation itself and put it all together in very little time.”

Gurpreet Singh, Creative Director, Ideaz Inc. says – “It was great working with the BBC World Service Trust team. The website presented an interesting challenge – to create a vibrant, interactive experience for visitors to explore the good work that BBC WST has done across multiple campaigns in India. The site leverages social media through the popular Facebook connect platform to enable visitors to comment, like and share content, blogs, videos and photos.”

The website was promoted very actively at the Conference in Vienna. As a result, the website has had close to 200,000 hits in July alone! This is without any campaign-related activity around the website. “The site was a big hit in Vienna. Everyone liked the look and content and also its user-friendliness. Given the high creativity levels at the Conference and the global standards, we took that as a huge compliment”, says Priyanka Dutt, the Project Manager at the Trust.

About BBC World Service Trust
The BBC World Service Trust is the international charity of the BBC. Created in October 1999, the Trust uses the creative power of the media to deliver development goals. It works in 43 countries around the world using a variety of approaches including television and radio drama, advertisements and journalism training. The BBC World Service Trust focuses on health, governance and human rights, the environment and humanitarian response. You can find out more about the work of the Trust at: www.bbcworldservicetrust.org

About Ideaz Inc:
Ideaz Inc. is a multi-disciplinary creative agency based in New Delhi, India. From strategic consultation to the creation and implementation of design and development solutions, Ideaz Inc’s team delivers elevated brand experiences for its clients that include Volvo Cars, Pedigree, Bharti, TATA Group, Agilent Technologies, Canon, Genpact, T-Mobile amongst others. Visit www.ideazinc.in to learn more.


Showcasing your portfolio online gets easy with Pixpa

August 13th, 2010

Are you a photographer, artist or creative professional on the lookout for a professional portfolio website to build your brand and market your work online? You need not look any further. For Pixpa is the one-stop portfolio website solution to professionally showcase your work.

Pixpa is designed by experts to present your work in a clean, crisp, user-friendly professional website. The websites are built to the specifications of creative professionals keeping in mind that every photographer, artist or designer has their own unique style and distinct body of work. The wide range of pre-designed templates on offer by Pixpa are focused on showcasing your work. The designs are unobtrusive and intuitive and present large high quality images in a clean and clutter-free environment. At any point of time if you feel like changing the design template, Pixpa gives you the option to do so in a seamless manner.

The easy to use three way navigation system - view next / previous controls, thumbnail based gallery view and slideshow view enables visitors to your site to browse your portfolio galleries in a flawless manner.
All Pixpa websites are fully loaded with powerful and relevant features like a very flexible and expandable menu structure that enables to create unlimited image/video galleries, editable information pages and external links for your site. You can also create password protected galleries for client access, a home page slideshow of up to 5 images that best represent your work and make the perfect first impression. Your Pixpa portfolio website also comes with a Guest Book for visitors’ feedback, full integration with Google Analytics, a Search Engine friendly HTML mirror site for SEO and I-Phone compatible mirror site.

Your Pixpa portfolio website will work with your own personalized domain name. In case you haven’t booked a domain name yet, don’t fret, for Pixpa can register a domain on your behalf. All Pixpa websites are hosted on state-of-the art hosting infrastructure to ensure reliable delivery of your website to potential clients. So with hosting, site maintenance, renewals, upgrades, security and everything else taken care of, all you need to focus on is showcasing your portfolio.

A zero-hassles fully-managed website with such great features, I certainly am impressed. Aren’t you?

Take a free 15 days trial
So how does one go about making a Pixpa Portfolio website? It’s simple. Just log in to www.pixpa.com and sign up for the 15 day free trial.

You can select a design template for your website. Choose from a wide array of designs and remember you can always change your site design on-the-fly for your portfolio website.

There you have it! Your very own Portfolio Website. Try it out for 15 days and then you can subscribe to any Pixpa plan that fits your requirements.

Manage your site’s content
Every Pixpa website comes with an easy to use 24/7 control panel called EasyStudio that lets you control and manage the content of your site anywhere, anytime…This simple yet powerful online control panel helps you create portfolio galleries, upload and manage images, drag and drop images to change their sequence, create internal pages (like contact, bio) and external links in your sites navigation structure, create password-protected galleries for client access and so much more. You can generate custom thumbnails; assign titles and descriptions to your images.

You can create unlimited external links in your site’s menu to connect with other websites – your social media profiles, stock photo selling websites, your blog or with sites that you like and want to share with your site visitors.

With intensive focus on delivering lightening fast loading times, image buffering and a host of other technical innovations, Pixpa delivers a seamless and rich user experience for your portfolio website.

Share and embed your portfolio galleries
The Pixpa team is constantly working on adding new features and functionalities. Here’s the latest one –Pixpa portfolio website users can now publish and share their portfolio galleries anywhere on the web-which I believe is a great step forward. Pixpa users can now embed their photo galleries directly on their Facebook wall, any website or blog or a number of social networks as a beautiful, interactive slideshow with full navigation controls. Users can publish single or multiple galleries by simply selecting galleries in EasyStudio. Click here to see this in action - www.pixpa.com/share-and-publish

The interactive slideshow is branded with the user’s identity and links to a full screen photo gallery slideshow on the user’s portfolio website. Pixpa users can also use this feature to share specific galleries as stand-alone slideshows with clients.

Gurpreet Singh, CEO, Pixpa says – “We feel that the ability to share and publish work across the web is a very important tool for any photographer, artist or designer to reach out to a distributed audience online. Creative professionals can now take their work to their audience, rather than wait for people to visit their website. The embeddable slideshows also are a great tool for driving traffic to one’s portfolio website by sharing selected works”.

Another feature coming up in the next upgrade is the Client Micro-sites which enables you to create password protected micro-sites that you can share with your clients. The Client Micro-sites can have unlimited galleries, information pages and external links that enable you to service your clients and deliver your work to them securely and elegantly. Password-protected client micro-sites are not visible to normal site visitors and are not part of your site navigation structure hence keeping your portfolio website focused on showcasing only the images that you want.

Loved by Creative Pros around the world
Pixpa has been the chosen Professional Portfolio website solution by an eclectic range of creative professionals – from an art gallery (www.impulsearts.in) to fashion photographers (www.amitworks.com), photo journalists (www.renaudphilippe.com), advertising photographers (www.dineshkhanna.com), wedding photographers (www.mecophotography.com) and hair stylists ( www.richardkavanaghwork.com) to name a few.

With all this and lots more coming, the Pixpa team is surely headed in the right direction. Here’s what some of professionals in the industry have to say about Pixpa:

PIXPA portfolio website was a unique trouble free solution because of its simple and clutter free front-end a very technically solid and stable back end. I was quite harrowed by so called web designers and their whims. After a couple of websites full of glitches and literally no backend support, Pixpa was peace of mind, right from the word go. It is ideal to present my work as it optimizes screen space without compromising on browsing speed. Also, I could easily customize the design according to my style of work. Hoping to see more new developments from the Pixpa team…

Amit Sharma- www.amitworks.com

Pricing Plans:
So what is the pricing structure like for Pixpa websites? Pixpa offers three packages – Basic , priced at $15 monthly fees or $150 yearly; Pro which is priced at $20 monthly fees or $200 yearly and Plus which costs $25 monthly fees or $250 yearly. The yearly plans have a lot more takers since they are very cost-effective.

Having a portfolio website that presents your work in a professional manner is a must today for any creative professional. Pixpa offers zero-hassles, great-looking online presence with a choice of several designs that make your work stand out. You can also opt to customize your website to personalize it even more. The Pixpa team is always available to support you. Check out examples of Pixpa websites.

So what are you waiting for? Take a 15 day free trial on www.pixpa.com and go live with your portfolio website now…


Share and publish your portfolio galleries anywhere on the web using embeddable slideshows from Pixpa

July 30th, 2010

Today, Pixpa (www.pixpa.com) launched the ability for its portfolio website users to publish and share their portfolio galleries anywhere on the web. Pixpa users can now publish their photo galleries directly on their Facebook wall, any website or blog or a number of social networks as a beautiful, interactive slideshow with full navigation controls. Users can publish single or multiple galleries by simply selecting galleries in EasyStudio - the online control panel for managing Pixpa portfolio websites. Click here to see this in action.


The interactive slideshow is branded with the user’s identity and links to a full screen photo gallery slideshow on the user’s portfolio website. Pixpa users can also use this feature to share specific galleries as stand-alone slideshows with clients.

Gurpreet Singh, CEO, Pixpa says - “We feel that the ability to share and publish work across the web is a very important tool for any photographer, artist or designer to reach out to a distributed audience online. Creative professionals can now take their work to their audience, rather than wait for people to visit their website. The embeddable slideshows also are a great tool for driving traffic to one’s portfolio website by sharing selected works”.

About Pixpa:
Pixpa is a easy-to-use portfolio website solution for photographers, artists and designers. Pixpa offers professionally designed, hosted and fully-manageable portfolio websites for creative professionals. To learn more about Pixpa and go live with your own portfolio website, visit www.pixpa.com.


Tips for Promotion on Facebook

July 29th, 2010

Marketers are using promotions techniques to reach the Facebook as millions of users use it every day. There are certain guidelines apart from the other terms and services that developers and advertisers should agree and follow before any promotional activity online.

Also you should follow all the guidelines before starting promotion on social media as Social Media Marketing is a double edged sword. Basic guidelines should be followed before administering and publicizing the contests, promotions or any other competitions. Facebook also clears that it has right to disable the account or page if anyone violates the guidelines and services.

Go through all the guidelines carefully
This is quite obvious, but Facebook guidelines keep on changing, so ensure that you keep yourself updated with the updates, changes.

Clear promotion first with the Facebook
Whosoever likes to run the promotion over the Facebook, must need to have an approval from the company’s representative. It should approve all the interactive advertising campaign promotions manually to make sure that each and every thing is legal. First experiment with the small numbers of users you would like to reach. If you find these efforts useful and successful than you can spend more ad, or a promotion. Although if you are promoting the contest which require Facebook, and that promotion takes place completely on your website, than you do not need any approval. Even than you need to follow basic guidelines.

Do not mention Facebook as partner
The promotional guidelines also state this that you can not mention Facebook as your partner. Not directly and indirectly you will mention anywhere that Facebook has sponsored the promotion or it is the administrator of the promotion. You can not mention that we launch with Facebook. Rather you can write and mention that we launch this on Facebook.

Comprehend the local rules and how can they affect your promotion.
Understand each and every rules and how they can affect your promotional activities. Any prize which is related to firearms, gambling, and prescription drugs is prohibited on Facebook.

Observe the formatting requirement of Facebook
Facebook has the specific techniques. Therefore it is good idea to understand it in detail to before creating the contest. Also they have certain specific languages which you should include in the promotion. For example: the promotion is not endorsed, sponsored or administered by Facebook itself. You need to designate a person for further communication connected with the promotion.

No action
You cannot do anything without a condition of becoming the fan of the page.

Source from: http://www.pixpa.com/tips-for-promotion-on-facebook


Invitation for entries to juried photo exhibit “Swedish Innovations – Indian Interpretations”

July 23rd, 2010

There is a multitude of Swedish innovations, many of which are present in the lives of Indian people in one way or the other. As part of the Sweden-India Nobel Memorial Week, a juried exhibit of photographs, in which Indian photographers have captured these innovations, will be organized.

Background
In October, the high profile Sweden-India Nobel Memorial Week will be organized for the fourth time. The week celebrates innovations and their contributions to the development of the world. The fruitful cooperation between Sweden and India is also at the heart of the week.

This year, Nobel Memorial Week will feature creativity as a driving force for innovations. As part of this, Indian photographers are invited to artistically capture and interpret Swedish innovations (in an Indian context or the interpretation in general – this is up to the each photographer). Ten photographs will be selected for the exhibit, which will be first displayed on the Nobel Memorial week party on October 30, 2010, hosted by the Ambassador of Sweden to India. Close to one thousand influential members of society will thereby get to see the photographs already on the opening day. The exhibit will afterwards be screened in the Swedish Trade Commission, among other places.

The photographers of the chosen pictures will be invited to participate in the Nobel Memorial Week party. The photos will be featured with the names of the photographers in a booklet of “Swedish Innovations, Indian Interpretations”. One photographer will be honored with a round-trip ticket to the capital of Sweden, Stockholm.

The jury will consist of Indian as well as Swedish cultural profiles, and the Ambassador of Sweden to India. The decision of the jury cannot be overruled.

Entries accepted until August 27, 2010.

Guidelines:
• Entries should be in landscape format.
• Each entry should be sent in a 8×12 inch print, marked on the backside with the name of the work (also indicating the innovation being captured), the name of the photographer, e-mail address and telephone number.
• Up to five entries per photographer. Entries can be sent in the same envelope.
• Attach a letter in which you briefly describe yourself and give your contact details, including e-mail address.
• Do not attach the original or electronic files in the application.
• Photographers that are selected for the exhibit will be contacted in September and requested to send their high resolution photo in a file on a DVD or CD. If this has not reached the Embassy within 7 days, the photographer has forfeited his or her place.
• Entries arriving at the Embassy of Sweden after cob August 27 will not be considered.
• Winners will be contacted by e-mail on or before September 30.

Applications should be sent to:
Embassy of Sweden. Attn: Sara Aulin
4-5 Nyaya Marg, Chanakyapuri
New Delhi, 110 021

Applications can also be handed in the reception of the Embassy of Sweden in New Delhi during opening hours (can be found on website).

Applications will not be returned.

Below, please find a list of some of many Swedish innovations:

ABBA
Adjustable Spanner
Bearing
Blowtorch
Bluetooth
Celcius Scale
Cellphonesystem
Coca-Cola design
Computer mouse, color comp.color Graphics
Dynamite
Gamma Knife
Hydraulic Rock Drill
Hasselblad Camara
HMS Visby/High Tech Stealth Technology Cruiser
IKEA
Jas 39 Gripen
Kazaa
Lighthouses/Automatic
Mechanical Alpahbet
Milking Maching
Pacemaker
Pipe Wrench
Pippi Longstocking
Position Indicating System
Propeller
Refrigerator
SAAB
Safety Matches
Scania
Seatbealts/Rolling
Seatbealts/3-point
Skype
Steam Turbine
Table Hockey
Tetra Pak
Turbo Engine
Turning Torso
Volvo
Volvo Penta
Zipper


Basic Rules of Social Media

July 19th, 2010

As the social media is the medium of communication online, therefore it is important that we should know the basic behavior while we are communicating on these social sites.

If you follow the proper etiquettes that would help to gain an online success, here are few tips of social media marketing that would help you to know more about social media etiquettes and how to be successful online.

Give more
You have to give first, if you desire to get the attention from everyone. You cannot be the top user quickly. You have to get respect from the other users. This you can simply do just by giving more and more than you get.

Add some value to community
Remember at the end of day, what matters is how much you add value to the site or community. But that also should not mean that you just constantly promote your brand design. So, before submitting anything or any article on the social media, just simply ask yourself that would this article add value to the site? Would it be useful? If it is not than rethink submitting it.

Do not harm the efforts of other people
You cannot simply interfere with others efforts. Do not try to harm others just to move ahead. If you make enemies online that would make you land nowhere. We actually get what we sow

Always remember that cheaters cannot win
There is a possibility of getting good results by cheating but that would not last for long, you would be caught eventually.
Build good relations
People always help those whom they know, so if you build good relations with the users, you would always have some people whom you can ask anything. Remember you should be always a good participant in the social media.

Respect community
This is the very important rule. You need to show the respect to community. It is not very difficult; just simply treat everyone like the way you would like to be treated. These are the simple things which you normally follow in the regular routine, now you simply have to follow these online too.

Listen others
Rather than fighting back or constantly arguing, just try to understand what others are saying. Understand what they are saying, from where they are coming. So you need to take some time to listen to others as well.

Be accountable
Try to be honest and take responsibilities of all the actions you take online. By this way you will be respected by everyone. Also be nice to everyone online.


Top Tips for Multilingual Marketing and SEO

July 15th, 2010

If you want your web marketing efforts to be as successful as possible in overseas markets, you need to think about properly localising your websites for the regions you are targeting. There are several issues to consider, including translation, country-specific domains and hosting, geolocation and Local SEO Services.

Overcoming the language barrier
Probably the most significant challenge you will face when breaking into foreign markets is language. 78% of web users do not speak English as their native language. This statistic, coupled with research by the Common Sense Advisory that suggests people not proficient in English are six times less likely to purchase from English-only websites, provides a compelling case for translating your content into other languages.

Employing a professional translator will give you the best results. Having a professional work on your translation means that any idiosyncrasies in your copy – like slang, metaphor and abbreviations – will be accurately translated. It will ensure that your translated content reads as naturally as possible. However, if your budget is tight, you may consider using an automatic translation tool, like Google Translate. These services are getting better all the time, but they will never be as accurate as human translation. One benefit they do offer is the ability to integrate ‘inline translation’ into your website. This involves building code into your web page to give your visitors an instantly localised browsing experience in their own language.

Keyword translation
On that subject, though, you should not rely on machine translation, or even a dictionary, for your keyword translation. You know how important your keywords are to your SEO and PPC advertising campaigns, so you need to be sure that your foreign language keywords are accurate and relevant. The only way to be sure is to work with a professional translator to develop a list of keywords in other languages. Don’t be tempted to use direct dictionary translations, as you could end up targeting the wrong keywords, meaning your website would languish in the outer reaches of the internet, rather than at the top of the page results – the most popular local keyword may be a term in the local language, a colloquialism, or an appropriation from English or another language.

Geolocation
Having gone to the trouble of translating your content into different languages, you want to make it as easy as possible for your visitors to find the version of the site in their own language. The best way to achieve this is to automatically channel your visitors to the page which is localised for their language. Geolocation is the process of identifying a user’s location based on their IP address. There are a number of companies that provide IP address databases, which enable you to add the geolocation functionality to your website. Using one of these services combined with some fairly straightforward scripting will allow your visitors to be seamlessly redirected to the correct language.

Gelocation works well for most visitors, but some may be accessing the internet via a proxy server which is not located in their own country, so you also need to provide a manual method for users to access their language of choice. This simply involves adding links pointing to the various language versions of your pages. Try to avoid using country flag icons for the links because many languages are spoken in more than one country. It’s best just to have text links, which could be in a drop-down menu in the website header.

Country-specific domains
To achieve high rankings in local search engines, you need to register a domain name for each country you are targeting. For example, registering www.yourcompany.de will help you to get ranked in the German version of Google. You also need to host your country-specific domains on servers within the target country. Google operates localised versions in many countries around the world, so it’s important to do all you can to achieve good rankings.

Link building
You should also work on building links from sites within your target country. For example, if you have a .de domain, your rankings in local search engines will be improved by getting backlinks from other .de domains. The methods for building backlinks in foreign markets are the same as the ones you use on your English websites, but you may need the services of a translator for things like article marketing and guest posting on blogs. There may also be local directories which it might be worth submitting your website to. As with any web directory you are considering submitting to, do some research and make sure it is well-established and has a reasonable amount of traffic.

Source from:http://www.searchenginejournal.com/top-tips-for-multilingual-marketing-and-seo/22637/


Airtel uses Facebook to connect football fans in the real world

July 2nd, 2010

Unlike various branded Facebook applications, which engage users online; a new application called ‘Play Hard, Party Harder’ aims to engage and connect users with each other in the real world.

The Facebook application has been launched by mobile phone service provider, Airtel. the application has been conceptualised by Rediffusion Y&R and developed by Ideaz Inc. The idea is to enable sports fans to watch events and party together at restaurants or nightclubs in their locality.

To begin with, the application will be used to bring together FIFA World Cup followers or fans. For this, Facebook members will be required to access or sign-in to the application, available at Apps.facebook.com/playhardpartyharder/ and then provide some basic details. For instance, users have to select three football teams they love or hate, enter their location and provide their mobile phone numbers.

After the registration process, the application automatically displays information about other members of the application, who love or hate the same football teams. Thus, users can connect online and add each other as friends.

To hook up with each other in the real world, members will be required to first log-in to the application and then select the match they want to watch. After that, they can access a list of restaurants or nightclubs in their locality, where the match will be telecast on big screens. They also get the facility to check out a list of other members of the application, who will be at a particular restaurant to watch the match.

Airtel will also entice users of the application with special mobile coupons for restaurants or nightclubs, to make offline meetings possible. Everyday, the mobile phone company will send SMSes related to match schedules and venue details of restaurants or nightclubs, along with mobile discount coupons of up to 15 per cent.

“The mobile phone company has tied up with more than 80 food and beverage outlets across six cities — Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Chennai and Pune — where mobile coupons will be accepted,” says Shubho Sengupta, creative head, digital, Rediffusion Y&R!.

He adds, “The idea is to use digital media to tell people to come together and meet offline as well. The application will act as a platform, which will help Facebook users to extend their network of friends.”

Sengupta indicates that the application is a long-term digital property and will be used for other sports events as well, such as the English Premier League (EPL), which is scheduled for August this year. Restaurants in smaller cities, such as Nagpur and Darjeeling, will also be integrated with the application in the next phase.


Call for Entries for “The Second International Pixpa Photo Challenge”

July 2nd, 2010

After a huge success of the first international Pixpa photo challenge. Pixpa is excited to announce “The Second International Pixpa Photo Challenge!”. The jury of the First International Pixpa Photo Challenge won by Iranian photographer ‘Saeed Rezvanian’.

Pixpa is calling entries for The Second International Pixpa Photo Challenge. “We would like to thank everyone who submitted photographs to The First Pixpa Photo Challenge. Given the overwhelming response to the first contest, we are excited to announce The Second International Pixpa Photo Challenge” said Gurpreet Singh, CEO of Pixpa.

THEME:Contrast

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
- You can post your entries to Pixpa’s wall on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PixpaCommunity
- Or send your entries to photochallenge@pixpa.com
- Make sure you include a caption with each entry.
- Please submit JPG files only with minimum 1000 pixels width.

PRIZE:
- The winner gets a Pixpa Pro portfolio website (See examples here).
- The prize includes two years subscription to a Pixpa Pro website including hosting and support.
- The shortlisted list of finalist entries will also be featured in a website on the competition.
- The winning entry will be published on the Pixpa website and the Pixpa Community on Facebook.

TIMELINE:
You should submit your works before 30 July 2010.
The winners will be announced on 20 August 2010.

RULES:
By entering the Pixpa Photo Challenge you must accept the terms and conditions given below:
- Participants must be 18 years or above on 1 June 2010.
- The Pixpa Photo Challenge is open to all professional and amateur photographers.
- The competition has no entree fees.
- You can submit up to 5 entries.
- The copyright of any entry submitted will be owned by the photographer.
- The participants warrant to the organizers that the copyright of the entries submitted by them is owned by them and required permissions have been taken from any model or property featured in the photograph. In case the work was commissioned by a third party, the photographer must take the permission of the person who commissioned it, before submitting the entry.
- The entries submitted for the competition can be used by Pixpa for marketing and promotion purposes of the competition in online or offline mediums without any payment to the photographer or to any third party. This free use will only be in connection with the promotion of Pixpa Photo Challenge and Pixpa shall give a credit line to the Photographer in case of any such use.
- The organizer of this photo competition is Pixpa – http://www.pixpa.com

Please remember that you must adhere to the above stated terms and conditions to be eligible for the competition.

So all you photography enthusiasts out there – budding students, amateurs or professional photographers, hurry and send us your entries.

About Pixpa:
Pixpa is a platform to deliver portfolio websites to photographers, artists and designers. Pixpa portfolio websites empower creative professionals to easily and successfully leverage the power of the internet to showcase their work and promote their business. For more Info visit at www.pixpa.com or call at +91-9810189321


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