Take A Tour

These little question marks are tooltips.
Click on them for further information regarding each module.

This is your point generating link.  When you tell friends about a specific design, t-shirt, blog post etc.  Be sure to use this link otherwise the system will not recognise who referred the new member if your referral turns into a sale.  As a result, you miss out on points and happy times.  So USE THIS LINK. 

My Inbox : Receive messages and notifications from fellow site members.
My Watchlist : Add your favorite creatives to your watchlist to keep an eye out for updates.
My Blog : Get it off your chest and vent it in your blog.
Forums : Have a chat with other members about different topics.  The forum is a collective voice, allowing people to be heard.

My Artworks : View and Manage your submissions
My Collaborations : View and manage your current collaboration.  See below to find out how this functions.
Submit artwork : Submit artwork for the current competition.
Submit concept for critique : Ask the community about the general consensus about your design.
Submit idea for theme : Our competitions are based around broad themes.  Tell us if you have a good idea for one.  If we receive enough submissions for a particular theme, we’ll use it if we deem it worthy.
Download Templates : We will update this section with new templates to make your design process and presentation easier.

The Collaborative process.
You can select up to an additional 3 members to collaborate with within the site.  When you click on the  "My collaborations" link, you will be taken to this module.

Over on the left you will see 2 blue icons.  1 of a house and 1 that says PM.  Clicking on the house will take you to the members homepage.  Clicking on "PM" will allow you to send a Private Message.

If a member is not co-operating or being annoying, the team has the ability to vote that person off the group if they are not willing to leave. (Democracy!)

Once you have gathered your crew together create a new project for the current theme.  Here you will be notified about the amount of time the current competition is running for and the most recently updated project file.

The project revision history will allow you to track the progress of the project.  To save older files or back track, just right click the filename and choose save as.

To make sure 2 people are not working on the same file at the same time, be sure to let your group members know within the comment area that you are working on the current revision.  This will prevent overlapping and confusion.
If you are working in eps/illustrator/vector format, please do not forget to outline any fonts you may have within your artwork.
If you are working with a raster image, please make sure it is at least 200 DPI.

The Project Files section is here for you to store any related project files.  If you have inspirational material you wish your project members to see, related sketches, mock ups, illustrations, photos, here is the place to dump it.  (Sorry we do not allow video uploads at this time, if you have some inspirational video try uploading to youtube and posting the URL.)
Upload your files and let the project members know about it within the project comment area.

 If you are unsure about your design, need help or constructive criticisms, why not ask the community?  Ask for help and suggestions, they might come up with ideas you never thought of.

Otherwise if you are confident about your design,  go for broke and submit your collaborative artwork directly to the competition.

Good luck and we look forward to seeing your artwork soon,

The BeStylin Crew.