Fancy winning a new Wacom tablet? Then this is the competition for you. Wacom has announced that it is partnering up with fotocommunity.com in this new event for all graphic artists and photographers in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. The theme is ‘Two faces - one reality’ and you must send in two images: a ‘before’ shot and an ‘after’ shot. The first image is any image (this can be portrait, landscape, architecture… anything goes) and the second is a new interpretation of that image after digital editing, which can be as much or as little as you like. The prizes include a Cintiq 12WX (check out our review in issue 41 on sale 28 February), an Intuous3 A5 Wide and a Bamboo Fun Medium. The contest is open now, until 28 March 2008. Find out more at http://blog.fotocommunity.net/

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The fifth annual 3×3 magazine illustration competition is calling for entries, and this year you can enter and pay online, saving you a lot of time and hassle, so there

Advanced Photoshop 39 is on sale tomorrow, 3 January 2008. The first issue of the year includes: The latest and greatest techniques:

Well, it's that time of year again and it's all parties and Secret Santas in the office today!

There's a definite 'end of term' feeling, as when we leave today, we aren't back in until Wednesday 2 January. So please bear in mind that images uploaded to the website during this time may not be approved immediately, and emails might go unanswered until the new year. However, I will try to log in over the holidays and check out your work and messages!

Merry Christmas!

If you're doing your Christmas shopping in London, then make your way to the flagship Carhartt store in Earlham Street to see a special in-store display by McFaul. The massive black-and-white installation is definitely worth checking out

The Advanced Photoshop eMag has proved incredibly popular so far, but if you haven't checked it out yet, then there is even better reason. We're offering 10% off all products in the Imagine eShop. Simply go to www.imagineshop.co.uk to order your copy now! The eMag has over 1,200 pages of tutorials and all the source files for these are included.

Every month we run a readers' challenge on our forum. The task is to design a work in Photoshop around a theme. There is a new theme each month. The winner of the challenge is decided by the other forum users via a poll after the challenge deadline has passed. The winner also gets their image printed in the magazine.

What are waiting for? Go to www.advancedphotoshop.co.uk/forum, go down to the Peer Pressure section and look for the latest challenge. I can't wait to see what you can come up with for this month's theme…

Urbanplanet.co.uk (www.urbanplanet.co.uk), a website dedicated to breaking new acts in the music world, is calling for young designers, graffiti artists and artists to help it design a new logo.
I think that this is a great opportunity to get your skills noticed, so why not give it a go? The Design A Logo Competition is accepting entries until 1 February 2008. Simply email your GIF or JPEG file (retaining the original Photoshop file in case you are selected as a winner) to info@urbanplanet.co.uk. The entries will be displayed on the website so that other visitors can comment on their favourite entries, and these comments will be taken into account when the winner is chosen.
As well as a great addition to your portfolio, the winner will also get an Urban Planet goodie bag.

The work that you have been submitting to the Advanced Photoshop gallery and forum has impressed us so much, that we want to know how you do it!

If you think that you can write a tutorial based on your favourite image, then this is for you!

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