Advanced Photoshop issue 65 is on sale now. Why so special? Well, we have four covers to choose from, each showcasing one of the winners to our Create a Cover competition (in association with iStockphoto.com). Which one is your favourite?

Inside this issue you will find:

The best features, interviews and artist profiles:
- The winners of our Create a Cover competition unveiled!
- Use 3D software with Photoshop
- Interview with Radim Malinic

Challenging and inspiring tutorials including:
- Add texture to a 3D scene
- Create paintings with atmospheric lighting
- High- and low-key effects

- Dedicated Industry section
- Four-page Helpdesk for Photoshop advice
- Free CD with brushes, project files and more

That’s it, it’s finally here. The last day of work for the Advanced Photoshop team!

Bear in mind that it may take longer for images submitted to the gallery to get approved, though we will be aiming to approve over the holiday period (if we don’t eat too many mince pies).

Have a very Merry Christmas and see you in the New Year,

From Julie, Adam, Stacey and Sam

Advanced Photoshop issue 64 on sale now!

The best features, interviews and artist profiles:
- Build a creative identity
- 20 essential tips for going freelance
- Interview with Cristiano Siqueira

Challenging and inspiring tutorials including:
- Surreal photomanipulations
- Painting realistic portraits
- Split-toning effects

Plus:
- Dedicated Industry section
- Four-page Helpdesk for Photoshop advice
- Free CD with brushes, project files and more

Advanced Photoshop issue 63 is on sale now!

Included in this issue…

The best features, interviews and artist profiles:
- Inside artists’ sketchbooks
- How to start your own studio
- Interview with Graphic Havoc Agency

Challenging and inspiring tutorials including:
- Electric effects – create the cover image
- Large-format printing
- Creative illustration in Photoshop

Also featured…
- Dedicated Industry section
- Four-page Helpdesk for Photoshop advice
- Free CD with brushes, project files and more

Advanced Photoshop: The Premium Collection Volume 4 is now available to buy from the Imagine eShop.

This collection offers 256 pages of the very best of Advanced Photoshop from the last year in one great collection.

There are plenty of in-depth tutorials on a range of subjects, including:

Typography

Digital painting

Lighting effects

Photo retouching

Digital illustration

Photomanipulation

There’s also a free CD with all the project files that you need, inspirational artist portfolios, in-depth features and interviews, making this your ultimate guide to Photoshop.

Priced at just £12.99, the bookazine will also be available shortly from selected stockists, including WHSmiths, Barnes & Noble and Borders.

New directory champions Apple’s iDevice as market leader

Apple’s groundbreaking smartphone, the hugely popular iPhone, is set to become the world’s best device for handheld videogaming according to The iPhone Games Directory.

“With giant publishers such as Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and Konami now supporting the device with bigger and better games, which include the likes of  Assassin’s Creed, Brothers In Arms, Spore and Metal Gear Solid, the iPhone is fast becoming the handheld gamer’s platform of choice” said iPhone Games Directory Editor Aaron Asadi. “With an installed userbase of millions and thousands of games already available for download from the revolutionary App Store, the future of mobile videogames clearly rests with Apple’s device.”

The iPhone Games Directory, on sale 12 November for £9.99, rates the best games currently available for the iPhone across all the major iTunes categories, including Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Sports and Trivia.

New Celebrity Twitter Directory bookazine rates the best and worst
of the world’s most famous blogs

Cycling legend Lance Armstrong has been rated as one of the best
celebrity users of social media sensation Twitter in a new guide to
the website, The Celebrity Twitter Directory. Former Knight Rider star
and current judge on America’s Got Talent, David Hasselhoff, however,
was voted as one of the worst, along with rap star Eminem, pop icon
Janet Jackson, X-Man Hugh Jackman, and illusionist David Copperfield.

Rated on star power, entertainment value and ‘Tweet frequency’, over a
thousand celebrity Twitter feeds from the world of TV, film, sports,
politics and fashion were assessed, with Lance Armstrong scoring top
marks in each category thanks to his entertaining and copious Twitter
posts.

The Celebrity Twitter Directory, on sale now at £9.99, is described as
“the essential guide to the best real celebrity blogs on the world’s
hottest website” helping the millions of Twitter users worldwide to
decide which feeds to follow, and which to drop. The bookazine is
available from WHS, Borders and many good supermarkets, as well as
online at www.imagineshop.co.uk.

Advanced Photoshop issue 62 on sale now

The best features, interviews and artist profiles:
- How to design for the music industry
- Self-publish your own art book
- Interview with James White

Challenging and inspiring tutorials including:
- Cutting-edge lighting effects
- Build fantasy landscapes
- Creative book-cover art

Plus:
- Dedicated Industry section
- Four-page Helpdesk for Photoshop advice
- Free CD with brushes, project files and more

Advanced Photoshop has joined up with pro-framer (www.pro-framer.co.uk) to offer you an easy way to frame your prints.

You might have noticed that, underneath your images in your gallery, there is a new banner that offers to help you design a custom frame for a print of the selected image. Click that and you’ll be taken to the Imagine Frame Design Studio.

There are just seven steps to purchasing a frame that suits the image you have chosen. First, is to select your wall colour.

Next you can upload an image (if you haven’t already selected one), then you can pick the size of the frame that you want.

You can then get creative and pick the mount and frame that suits your chosen image.

There are then additional options if you wish, but when you’re happy with the preview, then you can go straight to payment. You’ll then be sent a beautiful frame that complements your chosen print in the exact size that you need!

A great way to show off your artwork! And a lot of fun to play around with too… Check it out now!

Advanced Photoshop, in association with iStockphoto.com, is offering four digital artists the chance to see their work on the cover of the magazine, as well as win some great prizes.

iStockphoto.com has supplied ten fantastic images, which can be downloaded from www.istockphoto.com/createacover. You’ll need to log in to an iStockphoto.com account to get the images, but don’t worry if you don’t have one as registration is free and easy.

Artists must use at least one of these images and Photoshop to design a piece of artwork worthy of being on the cover of issue 65 of Advanced Photoshop (December/January). There will be four winners, with four collectable covers available, who will each receive £500 cash and £500 of iStockphoto.com credits.
Full details can be found at www.advancedphotoshop.co.uk/competitions_istockphoto.php and the closing date for entries is 23 November 2009.