Advanced Photoshop magazine, in association with Springleap.com, brings you a competition that challenges artists from around the world to set the tone for design in 2010.

Use your design power to chart a course for the direction of forward-thinking design trends for 2010. It’s time to be motivated by the cutting-edge world of commercial design! Release your own creative influence by drawing inspiration from popular culture, advertising, product design… the list is endless. It’s all about the trends that are making the most impact worldwide right now. Your designs must speak to people from all walks of life. Let the world’s most popular styles come alive through your design!

****Closing Date: 20 April 2010</strong>

We’ve joined forces with design lovers Springleap.com and provided entrants with cash prizes, personalised T-shirt prints and generous subscription incentives. But for that something extra, every entrant will receive a 40 per cent discount to a year’s subscription to Advanced Photoshop magazine. The prizes for the winner are:

What you can win…

• 4 T-shirts of the winning design (sizes selected by designer)

• A year’s subscription to Advanced Photoshop magazine

• A cash prize of approximately $500 (subject to current exchange rate)

• Showcase in the magazine

Requirements…

Theme

Trends 2010

Colours

Create your design using this specific palette only. Any other colour inclusions will see your design rejected

Rules…

• Artists can use any style of design

• Only truly original designs will be accepted; if you copy, we release the hounds

• Springleap.com design rules and regulations must be strictly  adhered to

Regulations…

• Product shots of any kind are unacceptable

• No company trademarks can be incorporated into designs (eg, Adobe, Photoshop and Advanced Photoshop)

• No nudity, offensive imagery or foul language

Visit www.springleap.com for how to enter and image requirements

http://www.photoshopdaily.co.uk/news/springleap-photoshop-t-shirt-competition-goes-live-tod

Issue 67 is in the stores now (see www.imagineshop.co.uk) with fantastic cover imagery by Zach Bush!

The best features, interviews and artist profiles:

- How Photoshop is used in the game art industry

- Back up your essential files

- Interview with Go Media

Challenging and inspiring tutorials including:

- Create the cover: Advanced compositing techniques

- Work in Photoshop and Illustrator

- Design stunning spacescapes

Also featured:

- Dedicated Industry section

- Four-page Helpdesk for Photoshop advice

- Free CD with brushes, project files and more

Issue 66 of Advanced Photoshop is on sale now!

The best features, interviews and artist profiles:

- Creative fashion – your designs on t-shirts, shoes and more

- Use your talents to design for a good cause

- Interview with Guy Seese

Challenging and inspiring tutorials including:

- Head to head: T-shirt design challenge

- Master digital painting

- Technical illustration explained

Plus:

- Dedicated Industry section

- Four-page Helpdesk for Photoshop advice

- Free CD with brushes, project files and more

Photoshop Daily has announced an amazing new competition, which challenges you to create a poster for the DVD release of the Ricky Gervais film The Invention of Lying.

With some amazing, once-in-a-lifetime prizes up for grabs, it’s worth checking it out now. But hurry! The deadline is 7 February 2010.

Find the details here

We all love a good January sale… which is why you will now find 10 per cent off our most popular products in the Imagine eShop (www.imagineshop.co.uk).

Get the fourth edition of our popular bookazine, The Premium Collection, for just £11.70.

Or try one of our eMag products, with Volumes 1 and 2 now just £17.99 each, including 16 full issues of Advanced Photoshop per disc. You can also get the digital version The Premium Collection Volume 1 for £8.98.

It’s iPhoto week at iCreate

The creative magazine for Mac, iPod and iPhone users announces a week of dedicated iPhoto content on iCreatemagazine.com

iCreate magazine is running a week of iPhoto-related content on www.iCreatemagazine.com. Running from 11 to 15 January, iPhoto-specific posts will cover guides and tips for Mac users looking to do more with their photos and Apple’s image-manipulation tool. Following the holiday period, when most people have a bank of new photos stored on memory cards and hard disks, visitors to the site will learn how to organise, edit and share their photos in new and exciting ways. Starting with a guide to boosting the colour in your images, upcoming guides include creating a photo book using iPhoto’s Faces feature and how to use editing tools to save suspect snaps.

Head to www.iCreatemagazine.com to begin unlocking the potential of your digital photos today.

It’s here!

Web Designer kicks off its all-new Photoshop Week at www.webdesignermag.co.uk. Discover how to create vintage-style wallpapers, build custom brushes, style stunning web buttons, add illustrations to web templates and discover the golden rules for working with layers. Enjoy!

Are you looking forward to Apple’s rumoured tablet? Do you want to know juicy secrets and learn insider information about how much it will cost, when it will be released and what it will do?

Well look no further than iCreate’s Tablet Watch.

iCreate has gathered together the best sources from the tech industry to piece together its vision of what this touchscreen marvel will offer. Including quotes, leaks and accidental announcements from major technology players, iCreate leaves no stone (or is that slate?) unturned in its search for information about this elusive piece of kit from one of the most secretive companies in the business.

Head to www.iCreatemagazine.com to find out more. The post will be updated as and when new information comes to light, and the latest news will also be posted to the iCreate Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/icreatemagazine

Web Designer would like to announce its all new Photoshop Week, starting on the 11th January 2010. The New Year will see ‘the magazine for aspiring online creatives’ unveil even more techniques, tips and tutorials that every web designer needs to know.

Visitors will be able to learn how to create stunning web buttons, vintage style wallpapers, add illustrations to web templates, create custom brushes and discover the art of working with layers.

Make sure you come and join us next week, you won’t be disappointed.

www.webdesignermag.co.uk

Advanced Photoshop’s Create a Cover competition attracted more than 220 exceptional entries. The winners, listed below, each had their work printed on the cover of issue 65, which is on sale now via www.imagineshop.co.uk.

You can now see every entry that was submitted to the competition through a dedicated gallery at: www.advancedphotoshop.co.uk/user/comp_entries

There’s also a special feature in issue 65 that showcases each of the winners, with their response to winning and comments from the judges, plus 18 runners-up.

The winners also received 500 credits from iStockphoto.com, as well as £500 cash. The lucky four are:

Michael Oswald, California, USA

Ryan Forshaw, Manchester, UK

Rob Shields, Philadelphia, USA

Meg Pietrzyk, Warsaw, Poland