Need Advice for Photo Contest Display

**Luigi** · 05-14-2008, 03:10 PM

I'm having a photo contest on my forum, and need to have a good way to allow members to vote for the best photos. We're talking about voting on over 40 photos. So the goal is to have the entries displayed in a clear fashion with user friendly voting tools.

Any ideas?

-Luigi

**Brandon Sheley** · 05-14-2008, 04:52 PM

well.. I think most of the gallery scripts like photoplog, have a rating option and it's fully integrated in the site.. Do you currently have a gallery script?

**Luigi** · 05-14-2008, 05:25 PM

Yup, I have photo plog, but I think sorting and rating through 40+ photos would be a big turn off for voters..

-Luigi

**Brandon Sheley** · 05-14-2008, 06:45 PM

ya, your probably right
maybe you can make a bracket type voting

where you pair off images, and the best one goes to the next round

**joshbond** · 05-19-2008, 09:06 AM

I use photopost for my photoshop contest. I had to do a few custom modifications to it but it works very well.
you can see my gallery here:
Main Index - Funny Photoshopped Pictures

and check out photopost here:
PhotoPost PHP Photo Sharing Gallery with vBulletin Forum Integration

**Luigi** · 05-19-2008, 09:18 AM

Neat. Maybe I should have gotten photopost to begin with.

Hmm, I saw this site with a poll and several thumbnails. It looks like a decent way to create a easy to vote contest. How is the thumbnail, and little number underneath each photo done?

Fish/Shrimp Non Macro - The Planted Tank Forum

-Luigi

**joshbond** · 05-19-2008, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Luigi

Neat. Maybe I should have gotten photopost to begin with.

Hmm, I saw this site with a poll and several thumbnails. It looks like a decent way to create a easy to vote contest. How is the thumbnail, and little number underneath each photo done?

Fish/Shrimp Non Macro - The Planted Tank Forum

-Luigi

thats just normal forum posting.

they use the [img] tags to place the thumbnails and link them to the full size, then place a number under each of them.

could be using html but I doubt it.

**Luigi** · 05-19-2008, 01:25 PM

Yikes, that's what I was afraid of. Seems like a lot of work to create thumbnail images for each photo and then link them to the original picture. I have to think about this more...

-Luigi

**joshbond** · 05-19-2008, 01:31 PM

Shouldn't be too hard.
I've done stuff like that lots of times.
probably take you about 10 min. tops.

**ArnyVee** · 05-20-2008, 07:04 PM

I saw a site that broke the 40 pictures into 5 groups of 8 pictures each and had a poll started in each thread. Everyone voted for their favorite of the 8 within that thread and that will give you 5 final pictures to do a 'championship' vote with it's own poll.

It seemed fine.