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What's a challenge?
A challenge is a mini-contest within a contest. It's a way to gather together photos on a theme or topic and see which photos are ranked the highest by a vote. Challenges can be short or last a little longer. Sometimes challenges will have prizes and other times challenge winners will receive a badge they can proudly display on their photo's page. Most of the time we'll be awarding a peoples choice winner and an editors' pick winner.
What challenge prizes are there?
Each challenge will have an editors' pick winner, which will be the photo our editors pick based on how well it fits the challenge theme as well as other standard things to look for (subject matter, exposure, framing, movement, etc.), and a people's choice winner, which will be the top-rated photo as decided by the vote. Both winners will get a badge that represent their win. Some challenges will also have prizes for each winner!
How do I submit a photo to a challenge?
Head over to one of the currently open Capture Memphis challenges. At the top of the page you will find two buttons under the heading "Toss your photos into the mix," one labeled "Submit new photos" and another labeled either "Add photos" or "Edit submissions" depending on if you have photos competing in this specific challenge already or not.
The majority of the time you will be adding photos you have previously uploaded to Capture Memphis to a new challenge. To do this select the second button labeled "Add Photos", which will open up an overlay allowing you to select which of your existing uploads you would like to include in the challenge. Select as many photos as you would like and then click "Save."
After the page reloads you will notice the button now states "Edit submissions," since clicking it allows you to change which photos you have submitted to the challenge. You can also see a list of the photos you have entered into a challenge at the bottom of the challenge's page under the heading "Your competing photos."
If you'd like to upload new photos to be entered directly into the challenge you can do that as well. For this you will want to click the "Submit new photos" button at the top of the challenge's page, which will bring up the familiar upload dialog with an additional notice stating that these photos will be added to the challenge automatically. Once the uploads are complete simply fill out all the required photo information and head back to the challenge's page where you can check to be sure they were submitted to the challenge as expected.
Please note: we no longer offer checkboxes to enter photos in challenges within a photo's edit form or the photo organizer. You will need to handle all challenge submissions directly from the challenge's page.
