I love you all but i didn't understand anything about what is permitted as filter in this challenge.
But I still love you :) ... in any case :)
Just about anything, Sisto. Just about any filter is permissible in Standard Editing. We leave it up to the voters to decide if the manipulation has gone too far, and I suspect in this case there's no such thing as "too far" for the voters :-) Let your hair down and get silly. Liquify away!
Just about anything, Sisto. Just about any filter is permissible in Standard Editing. We leave it up to the voters to decide if the manipulation has gone too far, and I suspect in this case there's no such thing as "too far" for the voters :-) Let your hair down and get silly. Liquify away! [/quote]
Often I can't comprehend what is borderline, allowed or prohibited ...
That's for the voters to decide.
And this is where this place can simply drive you away, because no one responsible for validating an entry will ever go on the record about where the borders exist - until when the voters decided that borders weren't crossed but an entry gets DQ'd and arguments ensue. God, it makes me remember precisely why I walked away a year ago.
1.) Almost *anything* is allowed in Standard Editing, as long as you don't move or create things wholesale, and as long as the source images are shot in the required timeframe. There's literally no restrictions on any specific tools - none.
2.) Voters do not decide what is DQable, the SC does. Voters can raise a question, e.g. "Was that elephant really in the original frame?" The SC applies the rules.
I urge you to look at recent DQs. In the vast majority of cases, the photog could not (or did not) submit an original for validation. That says something. Almost no one gets DQ'd for rules violations anymore. The rules must be working pretty well.
ETA: OK, I lied, there is one tool that arguably is not legal, either in Standard or Extended; the Text tool. But I think the "no added text" rule is pretty self-explanatory.
edited to add, more legal that just a little bulge, or a little thinner, can it make a big bulge now?
Pretty much all modification to existing elements are "legal" while subject to the tastes of the voters; however, you can't copy, add, or relocate elements.
