User blog comment:DarthRyu/Fan Fiction/Screenshot Contest for a Grand Prize of over 90,000 credits!/@comment-65.5.249.48-20130313002450/@comment-5328483-20130313005911

Yes, you cannot crop your picture to cut off unnecessary details. It's unfair to anyone who doesn't have the same tools and programs. Plus, the winner of the last contest had the desktop bar under his picture, so quality isn't exactly the greatest weapon in the contest.

You can follow George Lucas's canon. I think you misread it. The rules say you have to make an original story with an original subject. You can use the same characters, storylines, places, etc, but you can't make stories that are pretty much exactly what we read or saw in the canon Star Wars universe. For example, you can make a story about your character embarking on a journey with Obi-Wan in some battle that really took place in the Star Wars universe. However, you cannot write about Obi-Wan Kenobi in the battle and have it follow the same exact pattern without any original elements. What I'm trying to say is it has to be an original Star Wars story. It can't be you just writing the movies and books, but instead rewriting what happened in the movies and books. You can either have it fit in the canon but still retain that originality or create a Star Wars universe that embarks on a different path. It's a bit hard to explain and hopefully I cleared it up.