I sent it in again and surprisingly they took it. It is still a mystory to me why it was rejected the first time.
The discription I had origionally had something to do with Donald being tired of Sgt. Buzzard forcing him to shine boots, so he decided relaxing is better.
I don't see anything wrong with the origional description, but I made a different one that wasn't as cool.
The only other thing that I could think of was that I sent the same pict in the art gallery under my Butterflyhornet account. After noticing they didn't take the image, I entered it in the contest.
I still wish I knew why it was rejected before
They don't give actual reasons.
BeDeviled: I'll have to test that to know for sure. I wouldn't be surprized if an extra byte gets added. In my situation, the file size wasn't likely the problem.
I saved one entry this week to my hard drive that was a full 19kb.
I think one of my first entries was close to 20kb, got through, and even placed.
Edit 2 here are some entries that placed that are over the 17k limit:
Harsh_Winterstorm-2005-02-25.jpg (ruki) 18.5 kb
aromatic-2005-02-25.jpg (mohog) 17.1 kb
Desmo11735-2004-11-12.gif (ruki) 17.9 kb
Grayness_of_woz-2005-02-25 (buzz) 18.1 kb
My entries:
TatteredWingz-2005-01-28.jpg (ruki) 17.4 kb (looks like they did add to the size. when I entered Tattered, he was 16.8k something.
Tairrena-2004-10-22.jpg (ruki) 17.4 kb
(at one time I think I saved it off the neopets site and the size was 22kb and the image was the one with my signiture. But it looks like since then TNT might have replaced it with one of my earlier submissions-the one that I realized I had forgotten to put my sig in
)