We have the next all new Psdtuts+ Design Contest to kick off this month. We’re partnering with ThemeForest for this one. Give us your best portfolio themed blog design. The winning entries will then be converted into WordPress themes, sold on ThemeForest and YOU get the earnings!
Up for grabs are numerous cash prizes, video game consoles, and 1-year memberships to Psd Plus. This is going to be a great contest! Learn all about the contest and how to enter at the jump!
Congratulations to the Winners!
These are the preliminary results. Finalizing the winners is contingent upon review and approval of final PSD source files. Once the files are approved and the designs are coded by Html Rockstars we’ll be posting news of the finalized themes. Thanks to everyone who entered!
- First place: Ivorpad with the winning entry.
- Second place: efingo with the winning entry.
- Third place: lijuen with the winning entry.
About the Contest
This is a joint contest with ThemeForest, which is quickly becoming the premier location to purchase or sell site themes and designs. Submit your best portfolio-style WordPress theme design. Wow us with your talent and creativity!
To enter, design a portfolio theme in Photoshop, and if selected, we’ll get our friends HTMLRockstars to convert it to a valid WordPress theme. In addition to the prizes up for grabs, you’ll also benefit by earning from 40-70% of each sale on ThemeForest!
Keep in mind you could design the most elaborate portfolio in the world, but if it isn’t practical and usable, nobody will buy it. Work on making a highly usable design that also stands out creatively, which will lead to success. Here are some examples of some great, and high-selling, portfolio themes that have a professional design:
Read on to find out more about Judging Criteria, How to Enter, Prizes, Terms & Conditions, and learn about our Sponsors. Entries are open between now and the September 28th. So, get your entries in before the end of September 28th, 2009 Eastern Standard Time. Get creative with this contest and have some fun!
Contest Judging
We will be judging this contest based on a few criteria:
- Practicality and professionalism of design.
- Originality and artistic direction.
- Attention to detail and level of pixel perfection.
- Adherence to the Terms & Conditions of the contest.
How to Enter
To enter the competition, contestants must submit any number of portfolio site designs into the Psdtuts Flickr Group. Be sure to utilize the following directions:
- Submit your design via the Psdtuts Flickr Group, tagged with “portfoliowp.”
- Submit a JPG image that is the size of your PSD file.
- Include in the description of your Flickr entry any stock or source images you have used including URLs to those images.
- You must be able to provide us with a copy of the PSD file if you win.
Prizes
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First Place Prizes:
Xbox 360 Elite Package (120GB) + Extra Wireless Controller + One Xbox 360 game of your choice or USD $400, you choose (cash only if outside US or UK)
1 year Plus membership (valued at $180)
$100 to spend on ThemeForest
Your winning design built into a WordPress portfolio by HTMLRockstars and submitted for sale on ThemeForest, with all account earnings going to you
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Second Place Prizes:
Sony PSP 3000 core pack + One PSP game of your choice or USD $200, you choose (cash only if outside US or UK)
1 year Plus membership (valued at $180)
$75 to spend on ThemeForest
Your winning design built into a WordPress portfolio by HTMLRockstars and submitted for sale on ThemeForest, with all account earnings going to you
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Third Place Prizes:
Nintendo DS Lite or USD $130, you choose (cash only if outside US or UK)
1 year Plus membership (valued at $180)
$50 to spend on ThemeForest
Your winning design built into a WordPress portfolio by HTMLRockstars and submitted for sale on ThemeForest, with all account earnings going to you
Terms & Conditions
- Entries must be submitted to the Psdtuts Flickr Group pool before midnight September 28th, Eastern Standard Time.
- Entries into the competition must be entirely your work. If you use stock images in the composition, you must have an appropriate license to use the image and place a link to the image used in the description of your item within the Psdtuts Flickr group.
- Plus memberships will be issued from the date of notification of the winners. They are not redeemable for cash.
- ThemeForest credit will be issued to a username provided by the winners. This prize is not redeemable for cash and can only be spent on those sites.
- Judging of the winners will be done by the editor and writing staff of Psdtuts+ and ThemeForest in conjunction with the Tuts+ Manager. Our decision is final.
- Winning designs will be built into a WordPress theme and will be submitted for sale on ThemeForest under the winner’s nominated marketplace account. If accepted, the file must remain up for sale on ThemeForest for at least 6 months from the date of upload to the site.
- ThemeForest will review any winning submissions and winning files will only be accepted for sale if they fulfill the site’s quality requirements.
- Staff or regular writers of Psdtuts+ are not eligible to enter. Occasional contributors (i.e. people who have had less than 2 tutorials published on the site) are eligible to enter.
- Marketplace staff are not eligible to enter this competition.
Sponsors
Thanks go to HTMLRockstars for providing the PSD to WordPress services for the winning designs!
HTMLRockstars provides PSD to HTML service in just 3 days, for only $149. They take your existing design and transform it into valid, high quality, hand-coded markup. They also offer templating/skinning of the hottest CMS, Shopping Carts, and Blogging platforms such as WordPress all from your PSD. With semantic markup, microformat inclusion, documented CSS / HTML, and a money back guarantee, HTMLRockstars offers one of the most feature complete packages available.
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Home:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/catalind/3964161208/
Project:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/catalind/3963385969/
Blog:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/catalind/3963386279/
Blog Post:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/catalind/3963386419/
About:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/catalind/3964161376/
Contact:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/catalind/3964161538/
Hi all !!!
I just uploaded my images… I hope I’m on time…
Home – http://www.flickr.com/photos/multiductus/3964350488
Blog page – http://www.flickr.com/photos/multiductus/3964350954/
My submission: The Pantheon.
Home:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39993021@N07/3963063707/in/photostream/
About: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39993021@N07/3963063785/in/photostream/
Blog: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39993021@N07/3963064067/in/photostream/
Portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39993021@N07/3963839594/in/photostream/
Hi ,
Till when we can accept the final result ?
So who won?
Here’s mine, fogot to post them here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40810155@N07/3964205771/?deletedcomment=1
Here is my entry. Good luck to all that entered:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39941654@N02/
So who won?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42234446@N04/3892507659/in/photostream/
I uploaded it on the 6th, but never uploaded it here.
Enjoy, and good luck to all!
Uploaded on the 25th, and added to group… never posted here though…. just in case, here they are:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/luckykind/sets/72157622330763535/detail/
Because the flickr upload did not function properly when my entry was uploaded, I uploaded the pages to my deviantart and it wasn’t until today that I　had any access to any computers and added the deviantart links as comments. Suppose they’re still on time since they were submitted before the deadline to deviantart. so please check it out at http://www.flickr.com/photos/40810155@N07/3964205771/
lol no.
?
I uploaded mine on the 22nd
home page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29261354@N06/3944634292/sizes/o/in/photostream/
portfolio page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29261354@N06/3943864277/sizes/o/
blog page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29261354@N06/3943855541/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Any idea when the winners will be announced?
Here’s some tweets about the competition:
@iPad – yah, we weren’t sure how many submissions we’d get, but it turned out to be alot. It’s going to be tough to judge.
1:28 PM Oct 1st from Tweetie in reply to iPad
@iPad – yah, the contest has concluded, as in no new entries will be considered. It will take us a week or so to choose winners. thx.
12:47 PM Oct 1st from Tweetie in reply to iPad
Looking forward to see who won, I don’t know why its taking so long though there are not even 5 that could possibly win.
Maybe they are trying to get them coded before they announce the winners.
Nah I think they will ask for the PSD’s from the 3 winners before coding, making the sites from a JPG would be nearly impossible.
I’m dying to know too, I’m heading overseas soon and would like to know if I got a place so I can prepare the sites for sale before I leave
I’m going crazy checking this post 3 times a day… makes life exciting though, the competition has been really fun, I’d like to enter more in the future
should know that the appstorm wallpaper contest took 17 days to anounce winners…
WOW 17 days? too much time buddy! I’m checking too the site all days a few times! The curiosity is really high!
Makes me not really want to be bothered entering contests if they can’t be bothered judging them.
I’m going crazy too! I was just looking through the entries again and I realized why it’s taking so long. There’s too many good ones! I can’t even decide which ones I like the best!
Man, still nothing, my entries were;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lightninglp/3896265876/
and
http://furtuna.ro/design/2009/09/16/portfolio-theme/
Results today.. http://twitter.com/NETTUTS/status/4998013899
Waiting eagerly.. Good luck to all…
Not very true…
still waiting for the results.
And we are 3 weeks later…
Oh wow I won the second place? Well then this is a good Friday
this is a joke right?
I like first place and third, don’t be offended efingo, I just don’t like ur style
congratz everyone by the way
Congratulations guys!
REALLY nice works done!
“winners is contingent upon review and approval of final PSD source files”
2nd and 3rd hardly need a PSD file, just a background image and a title….
I wonder if these were uploaded directly to themeforest if they would have been rejected for being too similar?
I dont mean to take anything away from the winners, just expected more “photoshop” designs
I agree, I saw a lot better entries. Think it just shows I have different aesthetics to the judges. Really not feeling the 1st place header tho, doesn’t feel very thought out
First place yay!! I’m so excited
Great work everyone, Better luck next time i suppose, :->
Any update as to whether these have been made into themes yet? It’s Nov 3 – I’d like to consider the winning theme for sure! Thanks -
Unfortunately I still have not heard back from HTML Rockstars. I’m chasing it up.
Looks like envato really messed up on this comp.