Introduction

Greetings to everyone here, hope you are doing great. We are glad that our members are actively participating in our weekly contests. However, we have observed that some persons will always use the Contest Announcement Images in their own post. This is unacceptable. We wish to let our members know that henceforth use of Contest Announcement Image(s) would disqualify one from winning contest prizes.

For example, the image below was the thumbnail image we used for our last contest which some participants also copied and used in their entry:

We are by this post calling on all the participants or intending participants of our contest to refrain from using the contest announcement images in any part of their entries. Remember that using your own images makes your work to be unique, original and free from image plagiarism. The question now could be. How do I get or make my own thumbnail images???

Ways You can make your own Images with Ease

Use of Image Apps

There are plenty of apps on Android devices that one can use to create or design images for personal use. This apps can help to add text and images to create a beautiful first image for contests. Example of apps one can use to create images are Add Text,Canva etc. You can download this apps on playstore with the highest possible ease.

Getting Free Images

As far as contests are concerned, it is best to use your own original images. Using original images for contests increases your chances of winning bigger prizes. However, If you must use images not your own, there are free sites to use such as ones stated below:

www.pixabay.com
www.pexel.com

Conclusion

I believe the post has drawn our attention to the fact that Steemalive community will not accept any post made by a participant using the contest announcement images. It is even better to use few original images that are available than using the contest announcement image in your entry. We will disqualify those that do so from our next contest. Thank you so much.