{"id":1593,"date":"2014-08-10T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2014-08-09T22:58:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T04:58:55","slug":"saitek-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=1593","title":{"rendered":"Saitek Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CIG team, has partnered up with Saitek to give away some goodies.<\/p>\n<p>Up for grabs is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>X-55 Rino HOTAS.<\/li>\n<li>Playseat Flight Chair.<\/li>\n<li>M50 Package<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you need to do to enter? \u00c2\u00a0Break out your crayons, colored pencils, and water paints&#8230;. or, their digital equivalents. You have until August 15th to color one of two greyscale images of the M50 provided by CIG (see Official Commlink <a href=\"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/transmission\/14069-Win-A-Saitek-Star-Citizen-Setup\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for the pictures).<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;re done coloring, host the picture on your image hosting service of choice&#8230;and add a post to <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.robertsspaceindustries.com\/discussion\/163978\/around-the-verse-saitek-contest\" target=\"_blank\">this thread <\/a>over on the RSI forums. \u00c2\u00a0That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Winner will be announced at Gamescom, so entries are due by\u00c2\u00a0August 15th, at Noon GMT. \u00c2\u00a0So get to coloring!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my entry:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1594\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1594\" style=\"width: 598px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/M50Contest.png\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1594\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?attachment_id=1594\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/M50Contest.png\" data-orig-size=\"2550,3300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"M50Contest\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Because&#8230; FOOTBALL IS BACK BABY!!!!!!&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/M50Contest-231x300.png\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/M50Contest-791x1024.png\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1594\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/M50Contest-791x1024.png\" alt=\"Because... FOOTBALL IS BACK BABY!!!!!!\" width=\"598\" height=\"774\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/M50Contest-791x1024.png 791w, http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/M50Contest-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Because&#8230; FOOTBALL IS BACK BABY!!!!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If, like me, you&#8217;re artistically challenged.. grab a free copy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\" target=\"_blank\">Gimp<\/a>, which is pretty much on par with Photoshop, only&#8230; Free. \u00c2\u00a0Then, go nuts.. I used a lot of layers, and image masking&#8230; which, sounds complicated.. until you find a good tutorial online to help you out. \u00c2\u00a0Since I had some issues finding one, I&#8217;m linking the one I <a href=\"http:\/\/tutorialgeek.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/use-gimp-to-create-color-photos-from.html\" target=\"_blank\">found here<\/a>, since it was pretty easy to follow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Good Luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CIG team, has partnered up with Saitek to give away some goodies. Up for grabs is: X-55 Rino HOTAS. Playseat Flight Chair. M50 Package What do you need to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=1593\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Saitek Giveaway  #StarCitizen","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[38],"tags":[39],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BPLE-pH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}