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Hello everyone! I wanted to refresh my Daily Deviation (DD) guidelines for you in hopes of clearing up some confusion. As always, please feel free to ask me anything you are uncertain about. I gladly welcome all Daily Deviation (DD) suggestions and am always excited to receive them from you. DDs are meant to showcase the best deviations that the community has to offer. Anyone, popular or not, can receive a DD if they do exemplary work. That means you! :D For a better understanding of what they are and their purpose, you can visit FAQ #61: https://www.deviantart.com/help/61 - What is a Daily Deviation?. Basic Requirements Your suggestion MUST: :bulletpink: Be a photomanipulation. This means it needs to

VOLUMETRICS in M3D!!!! :w00t: Yep, you read right folks - the new version of M3D now has the facility to render volumetric light! This will add a whole new level of potential creativity to what is already a superb piece of fractal software! As always, get your free download from FractalForums at: http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=47 In Jesse's own words: "Not sure if this release is too early, but someone might use it for the FractalForums contest so here it is....and I need some rest! Please look at the readme for some explanations for the new volumetric function. What is new in version 1.8.9: -  Vol

Welcome to the latest community competition for Photomanipulation! This is the official kick-off blog for the latest, greatest EXTREME PHOTOMANIPULATION CONTEST here on dA! The contest is backed by communityrelations (https://www.deviantart.com/communityrelations) with HUGE prizes and hosted by CRPhotomanipulation (https://www.deviantart.com/crphotomanipulation). This journal describes the rules for the contest. Please read it carefully. What we mean by "Extreme" photomanipulation You should reach beyond your comfort zone and create a deviation that is bold, unique, and better than you thought you could create. Try something new. Break the mold. You've got this! We have HUGE prizes. So, we are expecting HUGE results. Theme

Thanks to the lovely PM CV - Jade, we have now confirmed that sxc.hu does NOT grant you copyrights to the images, so therefore you CANNOT use them for manipulations without a written agreement from the original artist/photographer. Please read Jade's journal that includes the whole story. :thumb357747324: From here on out, we will 100% be declining any and all submissions using sxc.hu as stock unless you have a written document stating you have permission from the original artist/photographer. Thank you everyone for being such fantastic members! Have a wonderful day! ~nikkidoodlesx3 (https://www.deviantart.com/nikkidoodlesx3)

Critiques: What to say when you don't know what to say Hiya, everyone! :D All of us have heard about feedback events during our time on deviantArt. Many of us have participated in them, while others have declined to do so for various reasons. Some of these reasons include fear of receiving critique on one's own work, fear of being attacked for critiquing someone's work, fear of not knowing what to say, and feeling inadequate to critique a deviation from someone who is perhaps more skilled than we are--especially if the deviation is created using a medium to which we are unaccustomed. We especially want to focus on this last reason. Here i