How to Enter

To be eligible to win, all you need to do is leave a comment. Make sure to include your correct email address with your comment so that we can contact you. This giveaway is open worldwide, but make sure to get your comment in before midnight this Saturday, November 14th, 2009, Eastern Eastern Standard Time. We’ll be announcing the winner next week.

Please note: Envato staff and people who have written more than two tutorials/articles for a Tuts+ site are not eligible to enter.

The Prize

1,000 Graphic Elements: Details for Distinctive Designs, by Harvey, Wilson. Rockport Publishers, 2004.

Product Description

Often, the small, delightful details make a piece shine, similar to the way unique buttons on a white shirt can give it an entirely new look. This book explores 1,000 of these embellishments available to graphic designers across all kinds of projects, from books to brochures, invitations to menus, CDs to annual reports.

Exacting photography, which is accompanied by credits outlining the vendors and materials used, focuses on these details. This book invites designers to literally shop for ideas. Content is organized by type; if you?re in the market for an unusual binding, turn to the bindings section to see a wide collection of fresh ideas.

Other topics covered include fasteners, graphics, unique materials, embossing, debossing, specialty inks, type treatments, interesting color usage, add-ons, die cuts, and much more.

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!

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:

• Bluelight Wordpress
• Sleekslide Portfolio – 4 in 1
• YourFolio
• Design & Photography portfolio

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 $78)

  $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 $78)

  $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 $78)

  $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.

Up for grabs is a Wacom Intuos4 Medium Tablet, iPhone 3G S, Nintendo DS Lite (thanks to CSSRockstars), loads of marketplaces credits, and 1-year memberships to Psd Plus. Learn all about the winning entries at the jump!

About the Contest Judging

We looked at overall artistic quality, technical execution, originality, thematic execution, and video game cover style in judging these entries! Thanks to everyone who entered. Now let’s give it up to the winners. A round of applause please!

First Place Winner

The first place winner is Quintin Schnehage. The author has gone above and beyond the contest brief by providing a realistic-looking back cover with a blurb and game style screenshots, and a CD cover design. It’s a package I can genuinely imagine picking up in a game store. Overall the author has created something that looks like a game cover (paying mind to texture, shadows, and layout! Fantastic job on this design!

Congratulations, and your prizes are:

• Wacom Intuos4 Medium Tablet or USD $370 (cash only if outside shipping area)
• 1 year Plus membership (valued at USD $117)
• $100 to spend on GraphicRiver, AudioJungle, Flashden, VideoHive or ThemeForest

Link to Image in PSDTUTS Flickr group

Link to Image in PSDTUTS Flickr group

Link to Image in PSDTUTS Flickr group

Second Place Winner

The second place winner is CorPaige. We’ve chosen this one for second place because it really looks like a video game cover. It’s a very powerful image and has a clear central point of focus. The originality and theme execution is strong.

Congratulations, and your prizes are:

• iPhone 3G S 16GB or USD $200 (cash only if outside shipping area)
• 1 year Plus membership (valued at $117)
• $75 to spend on GraphicRiver, AudioJungle, Flashden, VideoHive or ThemeForest

Link to Image in PSDTUTS Flickr group

Third Place Winner

The third place winner is stebrfc. This is an original design. The main character has a strong cybernetic energy that radiates a glow against the muted composition. Highly stylized and unique cover design.

Congratulations, and your prizes are:

• Nintendo DS Lite or USD $130 (cash only if outside shipping area)
• 1 year Plus membership (valued at $117)
• $50 to spend on GraphicRiver, AudioJungle, Flashden, VideoHive or ThemeForest

Link to Image in PSDTUTS Flickr group

Psdtuts+ ‘Delta Dawn’ Video Game Cover Design Contest Concluded

Congratulations to our winners! Great job to everyone that participated in the contest. I’ll be contacting the winners shortly to assist them with collecting their prizes. The winners should keep an eye on the Flickr email boxes for the next couple of days.

Some More Great Entries

There were quite a few entries that came very close to winning and we’d like to give them an honorable mention here. Also, there are certainly more good entries submitted into the contest that are in the PSDTUTS Flickr Group. Here are just a handful more that really captured our attention. Also, feel free to submit a tutorial concept for your contest entry designs. Many of the designs I saw would make great Photoshop tutorials.

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Sponsors

Special thanks go to CSSRockstars for providing the main prizes!

CSSRockstars 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. With semantic markup, microformat inclusion, documented CSS / HTML, and a money back guarantee, CSSRockstars offers one of the most feature complete packages available.

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Up for grabs are numerous cash prizes, a vareity of Mac applications, and a 1-year membership to Psd Plus. This is going to be a Mactastic contest! Learn all about the contest and how to enter at the jump!

Contest Winners!!!

After a great deal of deliberation, we have decided upon the winners of our desktop wallpaper competition (in conjunction with Mac AppStorm). There were so many fantastic entries, choosing only ten winners was incredibly difficult, but the results are in. To view the winning entries visit Psdtuts+ Wallpaper Competition Winners announcement on Mac AppStorm.

Also, stay tuned to Mac AppStorm as a huge selection of contest entries will be showcased in a new post there shortly. There was a truckload of creative entries into this contest. Thank you to all the entrants. Prizes will be distributed to the winners over the next few days.

About the Contest

This is a joint contest with our sister site MacAppStorm, which is a great place to learn all about Mac applications. Submit your best lightning themed wallpaper design with a Mac feel that you’ve got. Wow us with your talent and creativity!

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 August 28th. So, get your entries in before August 28th, 2009 Eastern Standard Time. We’ll be announcing the winners mid-Septermber. 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.
• Mac feel and creative application of the theme.
• Attention to detail and level of pixel perfection.
• Adherence to the Terms & Conditions of the contest.

How to Enter

To enter the competition, contestants may submit any number of wallpaper designs via the following instructions:

• Submit your design via the MacAppStorm Wallpaper form.
• Submit a JPG image with a Minimum resolution of 1920 pixels by 1200 pixels
• Entries must somehow incorporate the AppStorm logo and/or the Apple logo
• Also, here is the AppStorm Logo to use in your wallpaper design.

Prizes

• First Place Prizes:
  • $250 Cash
  • 1 year Psd Plus membership (valued at $117)
  • Things, Pixelmator & ExpanDrive
• Second Place Prizes:
  • $100 Cash
  • Things, Pixelmator & ExpanDrive
• Third Place Prizes:
  • $100 Cash
  • Pixelmator & ExpanDrive
• Fourth & Fifth Place Prizes:
  • $50 Cash
  • ExpanDrive
• Sixth through Tenth Place Prizes:
  • $50 Cash

Terms & Conditions

• Entries must be submitted via our MacAppStorm Wallpaper form before midnight August 28th, 2009 Eastern Standard Time.
• Entries into the competition must be entirely your work.
• Plus memberships will be issued from the date of notification of the winners. They are not redeemable for cash.
• Judging of the winners will be done by the editor and writing staff of MacAppStorm in conjunction with the Tuts+ Manager. Our decision is final.
• Staff or regular writers of Psdtuts+ and MacAppStorm are not eligible to enter. Occasional contributors (i.e. people who have had less than 2 pieces of content published on the site) are eligible to enter.

Sponsors

Up for grabs is a Wacom Intuos4 Medium Tablet, iPhone 3G S, Nintendo DS Lite (thanks to CSSRockstars), loads of marketplaces credits, and 1-year memberships to Psd Plus. This is going to be a lot of fun! Learn all about the contest and how to enter at the jump!

About the Contest

Imagine a new military First Person Shooter video game set in the very near (or not so near) future where an evil army has taken hold of the governments and people of the world. Out of this struggle a new breed of military warrior has emerged to take back what is ours. Grab hold of a rifle (or laser cannon), your fatigues (or high-tech armor) and some camouflage (or stealth cloaking). It’s time to gear-up, power-up and vanquish evil!

For the purposes of this contest the video game is called ‘Delta Dawn.’ There’s no limit to what your imagination can tackle in this contest, as long as your work retains a military theme. It can be set in the near present or the future. What is this army you’re up against? What does your character look like? What weapons will you wield? What is the full back story? You decide, bring to life this video game cover! You call the shots! Wow us with your talent and creativity!

What We’re Looking For

Your video game cover should look as if it would be at home on the shelf of any game store. It should include package branding for the fictional GameStation platform (see this tutorial for an example) or for your favorite real platform (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Nintendo DS, PSP, etc). You may change the logo for the GameStation platform if you use it. Please also pay as much attention to the ‘Delta Dawn’ title as you do to do to the cover background. We don’t want to see great packaging designs let down by bad typography!

Inspiration:

• Gears of War
• Far Cry
• Far Cry 2
• Crysis
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon
• Battlefield 1942
• F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
• F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate
• Halo 3

Read on to find out more about Resources, How to Enter, Prizes, Terms & Conditions, and learn about our Sponsors. Entries are open between now and the 4th of August. So, get your entries in before August 4th, 2009 Pacific Eastern Standard Time. We’ll be announcing the winners shortly thereafter. Get creative with this contest and have fun!

Tutorials and Resources

We have a few resources here on Psdtuts+ that may help you with this contest. Also, check out the results from our last contest for inspiration. You may find other tutorials that you can use as well, or search the web for additional resources.

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  Design Cool Game Graphics Using Displacement Maps – Psd Plus Tutorial

  We have another great Psd Plus tutorial exclusively available to Plus members today. If you want to take your game design skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Discover how to use Photoshop tools to blend graphics, textures, and a Cinema 4D creature into an awesome game cover design. Learn more about this informative and advanced tut at the jump!

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  Top 40 Video Game Covers of All Time

  While video game cover art is often as carefully designed as any movie poster, this area of graphic design is rarely given much thought. In this post we’d like to change this by high-lighting 40 brilliant examples of game art and explaining why they are so darn good.

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  Create an Explosive Cover with Precise Photo Manipulation Techniques

  In this tutorial, we’re going to make a creative illustration in a style meant for a video game cover or sci-fi book cover. We’ll create this with mostly photo manipulation techniques. With some cool Photoshop options you can turn all the photos you chose, into one stunning looking explosive cover.

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  40 Dark and Futuristic Photoshop Effects

  A question: what do exploding planets, energy spheres, ethereal lights, ruined cities, telepathic warriors, gloomy nebulas and light-rays all have in common? Answer: they look freaky awesome when you build them in Photoshop. Here’s how to do all of the above and more, for a total of 40 excellent cyberpunk and Sci-fi style effects.

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  The Making of Mystic

  In this tutorial Nik Ainley walks us through the process of making a spectacular image. This tutorial focuses on the big picture steps taken to create this image. You’ll learn some incredible techniques in this tutorial, and get a view into how Nik creates beautiful photo-manipulation based images. Let’s check it out.

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  New PLUS Tutorial – Demolition Made Easy in Photoshop

  We have a new Psd Plus tutorial from Tomasz Opasinski. You can see his work at his portfolio site. A few months ago when he was working on the “I Am Legend” posters, he came up with some simple techniques that are very helpful when demolishing all sorts of structures. He’s created a PLUS tutorial that details this process.

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  Create Surreal Scenery With Pro Photo-Manipulation Techniques

  This is a new addition to the Psd Plus section. Learn all about how to create surreal illustrations using advanced photo manipulation techniques. Jeff Huang takes us through his process of creating a digital masterpiece in Photoshop. Learn more at the jump!

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How to Enter

To enter the competition, contestants must submit any number of video game cover designs into the Psdtuts Flickr Group. Be sure to utilize the following directions:

• Submit your design via the Psdtuts Flickr Group, tagged with “psdeltadawn.”
• Submit a JPG image that is 600 pixels wide or larger.
• Include in the description of your Flickr entry any stock or source images you have used including URLs to those images.

Prizes

• First Place Prizes:
  • Wacom Intuos4 Medium Tablet or USD $370 (cash only if outside shipping area)
  • 1 year Plus membership (valued at USD $117)
  • $100 to spend on GraphicRiver, AudioJungle, Flashden, VideoHive or ThemeForest
• Second Place Prizes:
  • iPhone 3G S 16GB or USD $200 (cash only if outside shipping area)
  • 1 year Plus membership (valued at $117)
  • $75 to spend on GraphicRiver, AudioJungle, Flashden, VideoHive or ThemeForest
• Third Place Prizes:
  • Nintendo DS Lite or USD $130 (cash only if outside shipping area)
  • 1 year Plus membership (valued at $117)
  • $50 to spend on GraphicRiver, AudioJungle, Flashden, VideoHive or ThemeForest

Terms & Conditions

• Entries must be submitted to the Psdtuts Flickr Group pool before midnight August 3rd, Pacific 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.
• GraphicRiver/AudioJungle/FlashDen/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+ in conjunction with the Tuts+ Manager. Our decision is final.
• Staff or regular writers of Psdtuts+ are not eligible to enter. Occasional contributors (i.e. people who have had less than 2 tutorials or articles published on the site are eligible to enter).

Sponsors

Special thanks go to CSSRockstars for providing the main prizes!

CSSRockstars 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. With semantic markup, microformat inclusion, documented CSS / HTML, and a money back guarantee, CSSRockstars offers one of the most feature complete packages available.

All This Could Be Theirs…

… But You Ultimately Choose!

So, who gets your vote?

Finalist 1: Life In The City

“A collection about cities, modern buildings, industrial sounds, videos of a town in motion, or a building in color, you will find it here, brought and made by some of the greatest authors in their fields, enjoy!”

by ahmednaguib

Finalist 2: The Eco-Friendly Collection – Web and Print

“The Eco-Friendly Collection (Web and Print) is a compilation of items across the Envato Marketplaces that relate to going green and being environmentally friendly. Templates can be used as a base for websites and printed material that promote recycling, preserving nature, and anything that has to do with being eco-friendly. Sounds and flash animations can be used to accompany work created on the web.”

by idrawdesigns

Finalist 3: Admin, the Ultimate Collection

“A collection of files to help create the ultimate Flash/Flex content management system.”

by Gr0in

Finalist 4: Must-have to Create a Masterpiece

“Some sounds, graphics, and stock footage to give a masterpiece the perfect feeling.”

by Leas

Finalist 5: The Final Frontier

“Space. It is colorful. It is infinite. These are the voyages of the starship Envato. It’s continuing mission…”

by circuitbomb

Finalist 6: The Colors Of The Rainbow

“This collection has the most colorful resources you’ll ever find. Here you can find icons, vectors, website templates and business cards full of joy and fun, just like a rainbow!”

by drarock

Finalist 7: So Cute it Hurts

“All the cutest resources from Graphic River, and a couple from FlashDen are the cherry on the cake.”

by drarock

Finalist 8: Web Designer’s Toolkit

“This library showcases the best & most useful products in regards to general web design. From Flash to Photoshop to fully coded templates, these represent the best that the Envato Marketplace has to offer. In short, these products should be on every web designer’s shopping list!”

by epicera

Finalist 9: Urbanism

“The Urbanism collection contains the best urban inspired themes, web elements, and design templates.”

by Arezoo

Finalist 10: Rokband Pack

“Rock band objects, textures, graphics, product mock displays, and more.”

by iLLeT

Each one of these finalists will win a single use license to every file in their collection!

But who will win US$3,500 for their ultimate creative set-up? That’s up to you! So pick your favorite and vote for it below!

Please note that only one vote per user will be registered. Voting will close at 12 midday, Australian Eastern Standard time on Monday the 6th of July. The winner will be announced the following day, and then all finalists and winners will be contacted via email to receive their prizes!

So stay tuned to find out who wins Envato’s biggest competition ever!

Winners!

The contest has concluded. Thanks to everyone that entered. The winners are shown below and their books are in the mail. Congratulations!

• Iris Chamberlain, on Twitter: irischamberlain
• Hankai Zhang, on Twitter: designkyle
• Simon Steele, on Twitter: simonsteele

What Must I Do?

To enter into the drawing, all you need to do is follow Psdtuts+ on Twitter, if you aren’t already! Next, leave a comment containing your username for verification purposes. I’ll then randomly select a few people from this list and email you! It’s as simple as that. I’ll be selecting three random winners in the next 48 hours!

Up for Grabs!

We have three awesome books on Adobe Photoshop CS4 up for grabs. Each winner will also receive the “60, Unite For Children” book. Leave your comment to have a chance at winning one of these books.

Creative Photoshop CS4: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques (Paperback)

How to Cheat in Photoshop CS4: The art of creating photorealistic montages (Paperback)

Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual (Paperback)

60, Unite For Children

Each winner will also receive the “60, Unite For Children” book, published by APAG.

The Book’s Description

Featuring the work of Adhemas Batista, Jon Burgerman, Niko Stumpo, Tokyoplastic, The Ronin, MK12, Tokidoki, Joshua Davis, The Hejz, Arthur de Pins…First execution of the “60 Unite For Children’s project, this anthology is a collective work with more 60 artists.

Through 180 pages, you will discover various creations, some of them will be abstract, others more explicit; some will be radiant, others dark and pessimistic. Given that each artwork corresponds to the picture its author has of the world, it is obvious that all of them cannot reflect every artist’s ideal.

We wanted to add a “philosophical aspect”; so we invited each artist to express their feeling about their work. Almost each work comes with a short text from its author.

The totality of the profit from the book’s sell will be given to UNICEF. So, go check it out and consider purchasing it. The artwork rocks and it’s a good cause!

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About the Contest

We looked at overall artistic quality, technical execution, originality, and thematic execution in judging these entries! Thanks to everyone who entered. Now let’s give it up to the winners. A round of applause please!

First Place Winner

The first place winner is Horizon Fire. The story submitted with this entry is: “Who knows what the mysterious force is that has taken hold of this city, but clearly it has left no-one to keep up with the gardening.”

Congratulations, and your prizes are:

• Wacom Intuos3 4 x 6 Wide Format Graphics Tablet or USD $200 (cash only if outside shipping area)
• 5 T-shirts of your choice from TenBills.com
• 1-year Subscription to ‘Wired’ Magazine or equivalent cash value if outside U.S.
• 1 year PSDTUTS Plus membership (valued at $117)
• $100 to spend on AudioJungle, Flashden, VideoHive or ThemeForest

Link to Image in PSDTUTS Flickr group

Second Place Winner

The second place winner is Etagon. The story submitted with this entry is: “Some strange spheres made of an unknown metal fall down from the sky everywhere in the world waiting to a sign to make their move. You can hear this disturbing noise coming from the sphere, a sound of chaos, fear and death…But for some people this cannot be the end.”

Congratulations, and your prizes are:

• Logitech G9 Laser Mouse or USD $50 (cash only if outside shipping area)
• 3 T-shirts of your choice from TenBills.com
• 1-year Subscription to ‘Wired’ Magazine or equivalent cash value if outside U.S.
• 1 year PSDTUTS Plus membership (valued at $117)
• $75 to spend on AudioJungle, Flashden, VideoHive or ThemeForest

Link to Image in PSDTUTS Flickr group

Third Place Winner

The third place winner is simoncpage. The story submitted with this entry is: “The Earth is an awful state and we are facing worldwide drought many millions of people have died and the story follows 4 survivors as they search for water. They are unaware of how many have died and that they are mans last hope of escaping extinction.” The story and images can be found on the artist’s blog.

Congratulations, and your prizes are:

• 1-year subscription to ‘Wired’ Magazine or equivalent cash value if outside U.S.
• 1 year PSDTUTS Plus membership (valued at $117)
• 2 T-shirts of your choice from TenBills.com
• ‘Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature‘ by Matt Kloskowski or USD $25 (cash only if outside shipping area)
• $50 to spend on AudioJungle, Flashden, VideoHive or ThemeForest

Link to Image in PSDTUTS Flickr group

PSDTUTS! New Dawn Poster Design Contest!

Congratulations to our winners! Great job to everyone that participated in the contest. I’ll be contacting the winners shortly to assist them with collecting their prizes. The winners should keep an eye on the Flickr email boxes for the next couple days.

Some More Great Entries

There were quite a few entries that came very close to winning. Also, there are certainly more good entries submitted into the contest that are in the PSDTUTS Flickr Group. Here are just a handful more that really captured our attention. Also, feel free to submit a tutorial concept for your contest entry designs. Many of the posters I saw would make great Photoshop tutorials.

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About the Contest

Imagine a new blockbuster thriller set in the near future where some kind of mysterious force threatens the world. In this movie the setting is a post-apocalyptic cityscape.

For the purposes of this contest the movie is called ‘New Dawn‘ and the tagline is “Extinction is not an option.” Pick your own rock-star cast of Hollywood celebrities and design your futuristic poster design. What is this mysterious force? What does this dystopian setting look like? Will it be a gritty cyberpunk fight-fest or set so far in the future that the world is unrecognizable? Is it animated or live action? You call the shots.

Read on to find out more about How to Enter, Prizes, Terms & Conditions, and learn about our Sponsors. You may want to stop by Tomasz Opasinski’s site here for some poster inspiration. He wrote the PSDTUTS PLUS tutorial Demolition Made Easy in Photoshop, which covers techniques he used in creating the “I Am Legend” posters.

Entries are open between now and the end of December. So, get your entries in before December 31st. We’ll be announcing the winners shortly after the New Year. Get creative with this contest and have fun!

How to Enter

To enter the competition, contestants must submit any number of exciting movie poster design(s) into the PSDTUTS Flickr Group. Be sure to utilize the following directions:

• Submit your poster design via the PSDTUTS Flickr Group, tagged with “pstnewdawn.”
• Submit a JPG image that is 600 pixels wide by 911 pixels tall. Now you can submit bigger, but base it on a standard 1-Sheet Movie poster, which is 27 inches wide by 41 inches tall. You may want to design at that full size, and then shrink it down to a size that will fit on our website, which is 600 pixels wide.
• Include in the description a brief interpretation of your poster design.
• Include in the description of your Flickr entry any stock or source images you have used including URLs to those images.

Prizes

• First Place Prizes:
  • Wacom Intuos3 4 x 6 Wide Format Graphics Tablet or USD $200 (cash only if outside shipping area)
  • 5 T-shirts of your choice from TenBills.com
  • 1-year Subscription to ‘Wired’ Magazine or equivalent cash value if outside U.S.
  • 1 year PSDTUTS Plus membership (valued at $117)
  • $100 to spend on AudioJungle, Flashden, VideoHive or ThemeForest
• Second Place Prizes:
  • Logitech G9 Laser Mouse or USD $50 (cash only if outside shipping area)
  • 3 T-shirts of your choice from TenBills.com
  • 1-year Subscription to ‘Wired’ Magazine or equivalent cash value if outside U.S.
  • 1 year PSDTUTS Plus membership (valued at $117)
  • $75 to spend on AudioJungle, Flashden, VideoHive or ThemeForest
• Third Place Prizes:
  • 1-year subscription to ‘Wired’ Magazine or equivalent cash value if outside U.S.
  • 1 year PSDTUTS Plus membership (valued at $117)
  • 2 T-shirts of your choice from TenBills.com
  • ‘Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature‘ by Matt Kloskowski or USD $25 (cash only if outside shipping area)
  • $50 to spend on AudioJungle, Flashden, VideoHive or ThemeForest

Terms & Conditions

• 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.
• Entries must be submitted to the PSDTUTS Flickr Group pool before midnight December 31st Eastern Standard Time.
• Plus memberships will be issued from the date of notification of the winners. They are not redeemable for cash.
• AudioJungle/FlashDen/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 in conjunction with the TUTS Manager. Our decision is final.
• 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.

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Wrapping up Web Design Week

So with this post, Web Design Week is coming to a close! It’s been some week, 6 articles, 4 tutorials and about 20,000 thousand words. It took me way longer to write than I’d planned. When I started I told Cyan "I’ll just write one article", then it became "just three", then a week, then a week with double posts some days! Oh well, if nothing else I got my post count up again, gotta keep up with that Sean Hodge character!

The unofficial theme for the week turned out to be separation. In our tutorials we separated layouts from style and background choices to show, and in our articles we looked at how web design itself can be separated up into different parts. In case you missed any of the posts, you can find links to them below.

WDW Tutorials

• How a Turn a Texture into a Seamlessly Tiled Background
• How a Simple Layout Can Be Mixed ‘n’ Matched with Patterns, Photos and Backgrounds
• Photoshop Paper Texture from Scratch then Create a Grungy Web Design with it!
• Five Looks, One Layout: How to Develop a Library of Web Design Styles at Your Fingertips

 WDW Articles

• The 3 Components of Good Web Design
• 9 Information Design Tips to Make You a Better Web Designer
• 8 Ideas, Techniques & Tricks for your Web Design Toolkit
• 6 Interface Design Tips Every Web Designer Should Know
• 14 Quick and Slick Portfolio Templates (via ThemeForest)
• Cliff Notes on a Website Redesign – Tips and Thoughts from the Creattica Inspire Design

VideoHive is Online

You may also be interested to know that today we have just launched our fourth Envato marketplace – VideoHive! The hive is really just getting started so it’s a bit more of a soft launch than some of our others. We’ve ported over 700 or so motion graphics videos from FlashDen and added two new categories – Stock Footage and Project Files which will start filling up over the coming months.

… And if you’re into Video and After Effects, then you’ll be very excited to know that Skellie is almost ready to roll out AETUTS in a matter of days. So it’s going to be a big finish to 2008 for us here at Envato!