General rules:

• You may NOT submit watermarked images with your name or website visible on the photo. Please DO NOT frame your images with borders.
• Entrants may submit a maximum of 8 square images.
• Entrants' images must be .jpg or .jpeg format and of high enough quality (at least 1920px) on each side.
• We recommend all images are output to 1920px on each side at 72 ppi. Any larger than this and you are supplying images bigger than they will be seen or used by IGPOTY judges; your files will take longer to upload and/or download to judges and viewers’ screens.
• Each image must not be more than 7MB in file size and no more than 3000px on each side.
• All entrants must be able to supply a high-res image (300dpi) suitable for printing/exhibiting should the image be shortlisted. You may be asked for this when the time comes. We can help you with this if need be.
• N.B.
• High-res need to be at least 3780 pixels @ 300ppi, ideally larger.

Competition rules:

Please see the IGPOTY competition rules.

Category rules:

Only square crop picture ratios of; 1:1 and 4:3 are eligible for entry.