Hi gallery gang.Well it’s nearly time for us to reveal our latest Industry Section in the pending issue 57 of Advanced Photoshop Magazine. Student work has a big part to play here and we are now actively seeking the top studying designers from around the globe to contribute.If you feel you have what it takes, then send several low-res JPEGs to AP senior staff writer Adam Smith at adam.smith@imagine-publishing.co.uk with course details and a little about your work.Who knows, you could be the next big thing promoted in this new magazine section.Don’t dilly-dally, get posting now!

Hi guys just a friendly reminder to KEEP POSTING COMMENTS!

We love the standard of artwork coming through our galleries virtual doors, but there seems to be an absence of ratings and comments. We are all here to learn and be critiqued so get your thinking caps on and get commenting!

Keep up the good work.

Adam

The guys over at Bang Bang T-Shirts have announced their latest t-shirt design competition. If you think you have a fantastic design up your sleeves (t-shirt sleeves?), then here’s the chance to get it seen and win a great prize too. All the details on the latest theme can be found here: http://www.bangbangt-shirts.com/DesignCompetitions.aspx?id=18&cp=1

Each year we showcase a selection of works by the most promising digital art students around, taking a close look at the talent of the future. If you want to see your work showcased in a special feature in our July issue, see the entry information below. Whether you’re in your first year or you’re just about to graduate, as long as you’re currently studying a digital art course in higher education, you’re eligible to enter. It doesn’t matter if you’re into matte painting or illustration, graphic design or photomanipulation, show us what you’ve got!

Deadline: 12 June 2009

Entry information

Send an email with low-resolution versions of your best Photoshop work (no more than three images please; we will contact you for print-res versions should you be selected), along with a brief bio about yourself and your artwork, plus details of the course that you are currently studying to apstudentshowcase@imagine-publishing.co.uk.
Alternatively, you can send a CD with this information and your images to: Student Showcase, Advanced Photoshop, Richmond House, 33 Richmond Hill, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH2 6EZ, UK.
Images will need to be available at 300dpi, CMYK, PSD or TIFF and a minimum size of 15 x 15cm (but the bigger the better!) if we are going to be able to print them.

Terms and conditions

By submitting images to Advanced Photoshop’s Student Showcase, you hereby grant Imagine Publishing and, if relevant, clients to whom the relevant work has been provided, an irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free licence to use such intellectual property in relation to work similar or equivalent to the work. This includes the right to showcase work on multimedia formats. By submitting work, you also confirm that your images do not infringe any copyright regulations should they be published.

I’ve just been taking  a look at the new site for Web Designer magazine, which is very swanky. Check it out for its great Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash content, plus interviews and blogs. http://www.webdesignermag.co.uk/

That’s right, we’re now part of the social networking revolution that is Twitter.

Find us at:  www.twitter.com/advancedpshop

Come follow us for the latest design and Photoshop news, plus mag happenings and general rumbling.

Julie

I’m pretty excited by the latest new magazine to come from Imagine Publishing. 3D Artist is our new sister title, aimed at, well, 3D artists. It contains the same blend of tutorials, interviews and inspirational images that you’ve come to expect in Advanced Photoshop, showing you how to do more with 3D software.

There’s a full press release on Photoshop Daily to find out more, but I highly recommend taking a look.

If you’re into videogames, then Imagine Publishing has got a great new ’supersite’ dedicated to every console and PC release going, including in-depth reviews, previews, features, cheats and much, much more. It’s a great site that could easily keep you entertained for hours, and is right up to date with the latest releases. If you’re not into gaming, then it’s worth a look anyway, if only to check out the impressive web development technology and clean design that makes it the best website the company has produced yet! See it at www.nowgamer.com.

It’s that time of year again when the AP team get let out of the office to descend on The NEC in Birmingham to check out the Focus On Imaging show. Adam is there today and I will be there tomorrow, ready to bring you all the latest product releases and hands-on reviews. Watch this space…

That’s one way to get your attention! With the credit crunch still going strong, I’ll take ‘free’ anything right now. Luckily, this is a really good offer that’s worth taking up. Play With Pictures is a utility that enables you have fun with your images, creating amusing composites in minutes. Sure, you could do it in Photoshop, but this piece of software is simple, intuitive and time-saving – a handy addition to your software arsenal.  Even better, the first 10,000 people to download the trial version of the software will get the full-version licence for free! Go to www.playwithpictures.com/blog to find out more about this great offer and if you’re one of the lucky 10,000 people to get it first, you’ll receive your full-version licence key within 15 days. There’s even a Flickr group you can join to share your creations!About Play With PicturesPlay With Pictures is a highly entertaining picture creator that is so fun and easy to use that anyone can cut out people and objects from their pictures and turn them into unique and imaginative creations, which are perfect for livening up a social network profile, making greeting cards and invitations or letting school projects come alive. The software automates the process of cutting out an unlimited number of people and props from images, seamlessly layering them onto a background of choice, and then applying additional effects, all with simple and user-friendly controls. Using Play With Pictures, imaginations come alive.