Entries are open to OPPO and OnePlus users worldwide with full civil capacity, who are at least 18 years old , or reach the legal age in their region.

Entries must be original works. Photos that have been published or posted in other photography competitions or public media for profit, or photos that have won awards in other competitions are not eligible.

Submissions can be made through the official OPPO imagine IF website, OPPO partner channels-500px.

To submit your entry on the OPPO imagine IF website, you need to login to your OPPO account and authorize us to use your OPPO account to identify you, so that you can upload, view, and manage your entry. Therefore, we will collect your OPPO account ID, OPPO account nickname, and OPPO account profile picture. We will provide you with the appropriate services according to the country or region where your OPPO account is located. By loginning into the official website, you agree to the User Agreement and Privacy Statement of OPPO imagine IF Website.

Entries should be submitted by July 25, 2023 at 24:00 GMT, Beijing time (UTC +8). After the final submission deadline, you will not be able to upload, change or delete your entries to ensure fairness in the competition.

Entry submission is free.

Participants upload their entries and choose any suitable category for each entry.

The maximum number of entries per participant is 40, and each user can only submit five entries at most per category. A single photo/group of photos (no more than 9) is considered one entry, and uploading single images with repeated or overly similar content is not allowed. The entrants are allowed to submit the same photo to different categories, but each submission will be counted as one entry.

The entrants must submit works that fit the category that they have chosen, i.e., The Distant View, Portrait, Landscape, Colours, Light & Shadow, The Taste of Memories, Night Scenery, and Chapters of a Life.

The entries must be original images with complete EXIF data. If there is any dispute on the intellectual property rights such as copyright, and the original photo can't be provided, the organizer has the right to disqualify the entry

The theme of the entries must not have any elements of violence, pornography, racial discrimination, reaction against or denigration of the society, religion and religious taboos, etc. The photos must comply with laws and regulations and not violate public order and morality. Entries that violate the above mentioned rules will not be displayed or judged.

The entries must be taken with OPPO devices, including all models of OPPO phones and OnePlus phones.

The photos should not be altered in any desktop image processing program such as Photoshop and Lightroom. Moderate post-processing on the photos is permissible, such as adjusting the brightness, contrast, white balance, saturation, etc.. Composite images that change the original content of the photo are not acceptable. Complete EXIF data must be retained.

Only photos in JPG format are accepted. The submission should not be smaller than 1000 pixels in width, and the size of a single photo should not exceed 20M.

A title and a caption within 100 letters should be added.

In order to provide services such as entrant identification and entry verification, we will collect your personal information in accordance with the privacy statement of this competition to the extent permitted by the above-mentioned purposes and applicable laws.

During the submission stage, you will only be required to provide information about your registered account (including your username, country/region, email address or cell phone number) and a title within 100 letters for each entry you submit. The username, email address, and cell phone number are used to contact you in a timely manner and to issue prizes. After the competition, the organizer will verify the registration information of the winners. If you cannot be contacted due to incomplete or incorrect personal information, which affects the issuance of prizes, the winners will be deemed to have automatically forfeited their right to win, and the organizer will not reissue the prizes.

If you are having issues with your upload, please email the organizer at imagineif@oppo.com

After the deadline of the submission, the organizing committee and the preliminary panel of judges will select a total of 500 excellent entries to enter the final round, and the expert jury will make the final evaluation and pick the final award winners.

Submissions through partner channels have the opportunity to receive two awards. The professional judges of the partner channels and the professional preliminary panel of judges of the competition will select entries to enter the final round of the contest. 10 entries will be selected each month for each channel. Ten excellent entries will be selected by the professional judges in each partner channel.

After the final submission deadline (July 25, 2023), the organizing committee and the preliminary panel of judges will select outstanding final entries that meet the judging criteria. We will contact the finalists by phone, SMS or email. At the same time, we will also publish the list of finalists on the official OPPO imagine IF website (https://imagine-if.oppo.com/en/).

After the final selection, we will contact the winners by phone, SMS or email. We will also publish the list of winners on the official OPPO imagineIF website (https://imagine-if.oppo.com/en/) and OPPO's official social media account. The winner will be announced from August 14, 2023 to August 15, 2023, Beijing time (UTC+8), please refer to official website for more details.

After the announcement of the winners, OPPO will further confirm all the relevant information again. After OPPO contacts the winners, the winners must submit the original files taken with OPPO phone, fill in the documents about personal information, copyright statement of the work, authorization of the work, etc., and sign the documents in person, scan and return them by email. The winners must provide the above information within 2 days, and those who do not provide the information before the deadline and provide information that fails to meet the requirements specified by the organizer will be considered as automatically forfeiting their eligibility for the prize, and the vacancy will be filled by the entrant who is of the highest order. We will collect your personal information and the purpose of doing so： Name, cell phone number, email address, and OPPO account ID will be collected when entrants submit their entries. We will store the above personal information within mainland China for the shortest period of time necessary for the purposes you authorize, unless required by law or you otherwise authorize us to agree to a longer retention period. For more information, please refer to the privacy statement on the OPPO website (https://privacy.oppo.com/cn/policy/). If an entrant's entry wins, we will contact the entrant via phone number or email to obtain the recipient address of the prize, and we will send the prize by post after the competition. The information collected above will be removed quickly after use and will not be kept.

The entrant shall have the right of authorship, and the copyright of the work shall remain that of the entrant. Participants represent and warrant that (1) they have independent, complete, clear, and undisputed copyright of his/her work, (2) the entries do not violate the rights of any third party, including copyright, portrait right, right to reputation, right to privacy, etc., (3) the entries are created by the entrant himself/herself. Plagiarism is strictly prohibited. Once plagiarism is found, the entry shall be disqualified. All entrants shall be deemed to agree with this clause. All legal responsibilities for any disputes arising from the above guarantee shall be borne by the entrant himself/herself and shall have nothing to do with the participating platform and the contest organizer.

By entering the competition, the entrant agrees and authorizes the organizer to use the submitted entries for promotional activities related to the competition without any compensation, including but not limited to using the entries in online media, print media, print, photography exhibitions, retail stores, road shows, and other activities, etc. There is no geographical limit on the scope of use. The organizer is also authorized to modify and crop the photos. The organizer is not required to notify the entrant or obtain the entrant's consent to use the entry. The organizer includes OPPO and its affiliated companies, strategic partners, etc.

By submitting an entry, the entrant agrees that if the entry wins any award in the competition, it grants the organizer permission to use the entry for commercial distribution, and the entrant retains all rights to the entry.