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CR Newsletter - July/AugustTable of Contents
1. Thank You!
2. Daily Deviations and Groups
3. Volunteer Openings
4. Share Your Opinions
5. Community Projects
6. Official Contests
7 Project Educate 2011/2012
8. Art History Project
9. News from the Chats and Forums
10. News from the Galleries
1. Thank You!
I'd like to take a moment to issue a very important "THANK YOU" to YOU! The deviantART Community. On the heels of our 12th Birthday, I've looked back at the projects that my team have undertaken and realized that in the last year, especially, the deviantART community has stepped up and helped to make projects like #projecteducate and #ArtHistoryProject successful. Without your contributions, interest, faves, feedback and participation, projects like these would go no where. I'm looking forward to more community interaction and participation projects and am always open to your feedback regarding projects or endeavors you'd li

12th BirthdAy ShenanigansA compiled list of any current (or upcoming) deviantART 12th Birthday activities.

If you are holding and event or know someone who is, leave a comment below!
Official 12th Birthday Announcement
Read all about deviantART's Birthday here!
Giveaways
deviantART Birthday Subscription (run by ^Katara-Alchemist)
Win yourself a Premium Membership!
7-Day deviantART BirthdAy Giveaway! (run by ^ladygagz and =lightpurge)
The draw to win prizes is closed, but winners will be drawn all week!
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DeviantART's 12th Birthday Hat Contest! About The Contest
Time Frame:
Ended! hosted by ^KovoWolf
Thank You Everyone!
The contest is currently being judged!! Thank you everyone who participated! They all where amazing and creative!!
In preparation for the Birthday Shinanigans about to unfold here at DeviantART, we want to ask you, the community to get your crafty scissors, gear up your imagination, and all the materials you can for this contest in preparation for celebrating DeviantART's 12th birthday! What we're asking of you is to make your OWN birthday hat to wear for DeviantART's birthday!
Here are some ideas for you to get started on a birthday hat!

The Judges
:iconastralseed: :icon3wyl: :iconlyricanna: :iconSanguineVamp:
The Rules
Below you will find the rules for the Hat contest!

Please do not submit something you have already created

It must

Pimps and Whoas - August 1, 2012Pimps
Official dA News

Upgrades to Quarterly Check Payments

Celebrating Deviousness - August 2012

We need your Opinions about the Artisan Crafts Galleries!

Suggestivism

Stock and Resources Policy Clarification

Photography Weekly: Edition Thirty FourPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
"One Signature is worth a thousand implied tones..."
-Charles Swan -
Copyright Expert
In the news this week there has been a spotlight on Karren Brady, a photographer who has won a copyright ruling. The news article itself is interesting but the cautions that it turfs up for the future and current generations of photographers are slightly more concerning. The general feeling that has started to develop is that if you have assistance with setting up a shot, making a scene, posing a model and making up a person for example, those people may well have rights to your work. This is also being debated with regards to post-production and if you get somebody else to edit your work. What are your thoughts on this? And when attributing this to the deviantART community, what

Pimps and Whoas - December 13, 2012Pimps
Official dA News

Celebrating Deviousness December 2012

Odyssey Propulsion 6

Holiday Headquarters 2012

Realm of Fantasy - The Anatomy of a Group

Be Vigilant of Phishing Scams

Gratitude

Nom Nom #15

Apples
Chicken
Strawberries
Cinnamon
Chocolate
Sprouts
Cocktails

Pimps and Whoas - August 15, 2012Pimps
Official dA News

Announcing our Creative Grants recipients

Keep Calm and Comic-Con

Summer Feature

Site Update Sta.sh Visual Refresh

"FAQ Revamp Underway

FAQ Revamp Project Update pt2

Project Educate: People and Portraits IntroductionPortrait or Portraiture Photography is about a person or a group of people arranged in a certain way to convey the mood, emotions and possibly even a story. On DeviantART there are many sub-categories within the People & Portraits Gallery and some of those are self explanatory whilst others take a little bit more planning and thinking about to achieve. Throughout this week, we'll be working to hopefully clean up misconceptions and straighten out parts of the People & Portrait Galleries. So here's what's happening...

Shoot Yourself - Photography Contest

Open Forum - Throw your questions to the photography CVs and expect the answers (as much as possible) by the end of the week!

Getting your Emotive on - Definition

CR Newsletter - May & June 2012Table of Contents
1. New Faces
2. Daily Deviations: Listing Suggesters
3. Volunteer Openings
4. Share Your Opinions
5. Community Projects
6. Official Contests
7 Project Educate 2011/2012
8. Art History Project
9. News from the Chats and Forums
10. News from the Galleries
1. New Faces
We welcomed many new faces onto the Community Volunteer team this month! Please join us in welcoming them and I encourage you to reach out and get to know these fantastic people:
^ladygagz - DeviantART Related
^IsacGoulart - Photography
^RockstarVanity - Darkroom Photography
^laserbeast - Chat & Forums
^Athos-of-Light - Chat & Forums
^JZLobo - Fan Fiction
^SylwiaTelari - Traditional Art
^DaPineapple - Chats & Forums
^dekorAdum - Chats & Forums
^Talty - Artisan Crafts
^princepal - Designs & Interfaces
^Salvador-Rudy - Traditional Art
^krazykel - Chats

Photography Weekly: Edition Thirty EightPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
"“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
- Erich Fromm
Weather Photography has always fascinated me - the weather in general does anyway, but capturing those changes, shifts in atmosphere and so on have always had me in awe. However when browsing the latest news within popular photography early this week I was stunned by an image that NASA had captured of hurricane Isaac as it lurked over the USA. I've been in a hurricane before, but it never felt as organised or precise as this image shows. This shows a smooth beautiful cloud formation. When below it's likely wreaking havoc and destroying lives. It's difficult to match the two together and contemplate them as the same thing. It's also incredible how we've advanced in terms of technology. This shot of Hurricane Isaac was captured at the end of a month in which images have been transferred from Mars. We, as a human rac

Seniority Announcement - June 2012

This article marks the latest announcements detailing the latest additions to the dizzy height of Senior members in our community. With just over 900 deviants holding the highly saught after ` -- it's clearly a moment that deserves recognition.
:faq29:
So what does it take to become a Senior? That's a question many have asked and have never really been able to get a straight answer on. Some have gained Seniority as a thank you for their time spent as a Volunteer, or to recognise their contribution to a particular project or collaborative action. Some have gained Seniority because of their community spirit, providing help and assistance to many other deviants and taking time out to promote the work of others in the community.
Some people have received Seniority because of their artistic endevours, having a positive influence on their peers by sharing resources, providing constructive criticism and by being a voice t

Pimps and Whoas - September 27, 2012Pimps
Official dA News

Supercharge Your Profile Like the Masters

Have You Met Zee Captain

Site Update: Film, Sta.sh Writer Improvements

Hot Off the Press: Mythical Creatures Finalists

We have our own dA Project Folder

Celebrating Deviousness - September 2012Deviousness Award
Congratulations to `
SaTaNiA

Set Fire to the digital rain

Wallpaper Divagant

Dissipation
What is this Awesome Achievement?
The Deviousness Award is an accolade which is traditionally handed out on the 1st of every month to one truly outstanding deviant.

Paris Official dM 2

Photography Troubleshooting: Dull Images on dA?After a long pause in which nobody seemed to have very many questions, we've got a very intriguing one which came up during the People & Portraits #projecteducate week and it's something that has always played on my mind, and no doubt on yours too. Once again `sine-out has provided a fantastic answer, so hopefully that will help somewhat in clearing this issue up. Have a question? Drop it on this article and we'll work on an answer!

"It seems like colorful pictures made in adobe look good, then after
they have been uploaded on deviantART... the color is more dead.. not so
alive..is this an issue?" ~ *kayjensen
"Hi *kayjensen, the issue your describing is most likely a colour profile issue. Colour profiles essentially describe how each colour is represented and there are different profiles for different purpose but mostly for getting accurate colour out of a printer or a screen.
By default the internet works with and assumes that every

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DeviantART'S 12th Birthday Gameshow: Starting soon

Thu Aug 2, 2012, 12:59 PM by ^Kaz-D

DeviantART Birthday Gameshow is starting in just FIFTEEN MINUTES!

We're looking for game players to come and join in our deviantART Birthday Event! In just a short while ^3wyl and myself are hosting an interpretation of a British game show called Pointless. The idea of the game is that you have to guess the least popular answer to a multiple answers question. You will be awarded points accordingly, those with the most points will win - but you will have used pointless answers to get there!

We'll have pre-judged the least popular and most popular answers by asking a panel of CVs beforehand for their responses. Want an example?

Name a Film Starring Tom Cruise

Okay so Mission Impossible is a really high answer and if you said that one, you'd get lots of points. Which isn't good! If you said Rain Man - you'd possibly be getting less points. But if you said something like Endless Love or Taps, then you'd be hitting on an answer that not many people know. Therefore you'd get little to no points - and have more chance of winning. Make sense?

The aim of the game is to get creative, and also that the first answer you google for - won't
necessarily get you the winning point. And we know you use google. Oh Yes. So hopefully this will cut down that unfair advantage.

Interested...???
There are MANY prizes to be won and each round will have a prize of some sort for winners! So there's nothing to lose in getting involved. Come on in to #CommunityRelations pull up a chair and get comfortable!