Hello there!!!
When i upload my submission, should i upload a diferent JPG for each aplication + the clian image…????
Thanks!!!

is there like a template to used to draw the designs?

how i can download the guide layers or templates for contests?
contact: caceres.diego@gmail.com

what about Skate Deck templates?
i didn’t see them there…

The instructions for uploading art tells how to do it for Apple (I believe) and I have a PC (sorry). On a PC you don’t get the option of how large, or small, you want to save a file. Any suggestions?

Hey Guys,

The skate deck line template isn’t proportional to the asked for artwork measurement of 7.75″ × 32″.

Which do I go by?

Thanks.

I figured it out. I just didn’t look at all the options under “File”. It has a save for web and devices choice, duh. I am gonna try to get my first design up, Woo Hoo!

Hi Skylerskinner, Sorry we don’t provide that service at Infectious. We have two contests running – Open Submissions and our current deck contest. The winners of these contests are invited to make products with Infectious. That’s the way that art gets added to the catalog. Feel free to email me directly if you have any questions – joey@infectious.com.

Thanks!

what is final file/format is delivered to infectious..
are we sent the original file or it justs a huge file of jpg, png, eps or others..
i was work with photoshop, and CorelDraw for vector, it is ok..
thanks..

I got a quetion about number of artworks that participant can upload. Why some guys can upload a three absolutely similar images , like Raphael Sonsino for example, but my second, and in my opinion my best artwork is declined? And I didn’t got any comments why it declined. Its unfair.

Hi Fillzy, Thanks for your question, this is exactly what the forums are designed for and hopefully I can shed a little light for you and other artists on our process. We get a huge volume of submissions sent to us every day which unfortunately means that we cannot accept every single design. It is not an exact science and is obviously a slightly subjective thing based on our past experience of what our community tends to resonate with. We want art that gets moved into the voting gallery to do as well as possible after all. We do try to be as fair as possible overall. With specific regards to Raphael Sonsino, he submitted a large number of designs of his animal decks, we selected what we felt were the strongest ones and accepted three because he explained to us that he envisioned them as a themed series of skate decks. If you would like to chat about this some more feel free to email me at joey@infectious.com Thanks, Joey

You need to be able to digitize your art …

One way would be to use a scanner. Keep in mind that print designs need to be 300 dpi at 100%. Scanning in color (RGB).

Another way would be to take a photo of your art with a camera. As high of a resolution as your camera will go. Use natural light and a tri-pod.

You will need 2 images. One low res image for your submission. And one large, high resolution image in case it gets picked, for printing. Always work in high resolution FIRST, then downsample for the submission.

Once you have the images on your computer, resize them to the standard that Infectious needs to post an entry. 800 × 800 pixels.

Again – for your full-size art, keep in mind that a 1200 × 1200 pixel image would only print out to a 4″ × 4″ image. So if you need a 17″ × 10″ image (say for a laptop skin), multiply the inches by 300 (dpi). So you would need a 5100 × 3000 pixel image.

By the way, sorry for bothering you again but are you allowed to include the word apple in it and do we post our picture onto the laptop or is that infectious’ job?

Thanks and burbskate’s comment really helped

Hi,
I’m new here & I’ve some problems.I’m trying to submit my work to Robots & People competition.
Should I submit my work to " Submit to Critique for People & Robots "?
Sorry for my english, I’m from eastern europe…

Man I have tryed everything to get some stuff uploaded I can’t seem to get the size right. 72 dpi 650×800 and 200×200 AARRRGGGGGG!! talk like a pirate!! thans folks!!

none of design are taken in

Gary – can I check how big the files is that your trying to upload? Is the jpeg is over 250kb the site won’t accept it. If you’re on a mac you can click on the jpeg with apple and i and it will tell you the size. if it’s over 250kb you can follow the instructions on this page: http://www.infectious.com/submissions/open/get_started. Just click on the orange JPG Importing Instructions link. I’m on joey@infectious.com. Best of luck!

Hi inalican, Depends what submissions you’re talking about. If it’s in Critique then I can do it on your behalf. Email me at joey@infectious.com and let me know.

As for number of submissions, we ask that artists don’t submit tons of pieces willy-nilly. We recommend spacing out your submissions and focusing on your strongest one to two designs per week. If you have several pieces you would like to submit, that’s great but please don’t submit them all at once. We don’t like to flood the gallery with tons of submissions by the same artist; it’s just not fun for the rest of the community and will ultimately result in low scoring :(

Hope that helps!

Hi Autumn, sorry it’s taken us a while to get back to you. Yes black and white are considered one of the 8 colors. We haven’t rejected any of your designs – we’ve asked you to move them to Critique – which means that we feel that with a little feedback from the community that the design can become an even stronger contender. If you’d like some more detail feedback feel free to email me at joey@infectious.com – I’m currently on vacation and will be back and ready to answer any qs on Monday.

I’ll get our engineer to move it over for you Alex

Hey Alex – it’s in the correct contest now. You’re very welcome :)

I am new to infectious!
i submitted one of my designs..and it got approved too!
I want to know where to vote for it?

Hey!
Im serious about getting into the skateboard design business.
im fresh at the field, but know my illustrator. Have i understood the meaning of this site if i say that i can post my designs here, and they’ll be buyable designs for John Doe, and even myself? or do my design have to win some contest first?

Hey, I’m trying to create a laptop skin design but I’m getting confused with the dimensions- you say it has to be 15" by 10" but on the submissions info you say it has to be 650x to 800px. If I increase the size of the image to 15" by 10", then the pixel dimensions go through the roof. What do I do?

Thanks!

HOW to DELETE submissions???

I am having trouble in sizing my pieces so i can transfer 2 u./using windows vista paint program/only scans from there/how can i manipulate size,pixels ect./i have old photoslop also/please help////

also my pics seem 2 be cut into 3 pages/when i do print preview/it shows up in three pages,mostly on the last page/the image.some way 2 down size the original scan??

hello

For the tees there’s an 8 color maximum. For skins and skateboards – no limitation – go wild!

Hey jkoshi. Let me check with the production manager to see how he’d like to handle this. He’ll be in touch shortly.
Cheers.

@DarkGlow Absolutely!

Coming soon! We’re working out schedules as I type!

I think ‘content type’ is referring to where you are wanting your submission to go, especially with the current ‘Incognito’ contest which is now open – so there maybe be confusion over where you are submitting your design too, general open submissions/ contest submissions……. i may be wrong.

It’s still under open submission but only in critique section. I think the critique section for “incognito” is filed separately. even so, how do i submit it for voting?

i was thinking of submitting another and have the other one deleted..

thank you~!
n__n resubmitted

I have a design but I’m not sure how people make it look so perfect on the templates. The only thing I could think of to do was a layer clipping mask but It doesnt look right at all. I cant get the edges to look right…

thanks, I’ll try that =]

Hi Miho, We try very hard not to remove designs one they have entered the voting gallery, as it’s not very fair on the other artists. And even if we did it would loose all the votes it has accrued so far. Maybe you could try with a different photograph? Thanks.