Win a Prize Worth $6300+ Using Photoshop
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From those who brought you the Cereal Box Contest: Photoshop Cafe’s 8th Annual Design Contest is underway, with a truckload of great prizes up for grabs! The grand prize includes Adobe products, as well as a tablet, books, and other great design software. Second and third place also have considerably awesome prizes, and even a bonus prize worth $150, which is nothing to sneeze at for having a bit of fun.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to design a video game cover using a tool from Photoshop as the title of the game. Anyone can enter provided you use your own work, and scoring is done by a panel of three judges. If you want to give a shot at this, get your entries in soon! The contest ends at the end of this month at midnight of January 31/08. Good luck!
Head on after the break to see some early sweet picks from this year’s contest.
Dice & Slice
Nice integration of a photograph with the box art, I thought. The photographed person almost looks like a 3-D game character.
Wave 2
Some nice photoshop work with the text effects and octopus, and clever texturing in the background, and the piece as a whole works well together.
Smudge Tool
Although a little too busy for a box-art, the idea is clever and executed in an interesting way. A lot of attention to detail was had when this piece was put together – the colours flow well together and are consistent, and the disintegrating planet was carefully crafted.
Gradient: Linear vs. Radial
Clean, simple, and believable as box art. It reminds me of the old Spy vs Spy games, and I want to play it. 
Magnetic Lasso: The Quick Selection and the Dead
What more can I say, really?
Using Photoshop and ImageReady, you can easily design animated banners for advertising campaigns. PSD files are included in this tutorial.
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