) September 22, 2008 -- Renderosity launched today its 8th annual Halloween Design Contest. This year's event is open to Renderosity members who create content in one of the following five categories: 3D, 2D, animation, photography and writing.    Membership to Renderosity is free for everyone, including non-members interested in participating in this and future contests.

Prizes totaling over $38,000 will be available to winners voted by the community. Prize Sponsors include the following leaders in the computer graphics industry: Autodesk, Craft Animations, Corel, Reallusion, E-on Software, Autodessys, Project Dogwaffle, MediaChance, Smith Micro, Photoshop Café, ResPower, Imagineer Systems, Antics3D, Bondware Web Solutions, and MovieStorm.    

) October 11, 2008 -- Wiley, a leading publisher of Adobe how-to books, has launched Wiley Design Challenge, a book cover design contest that will run through October 31, 2008. Artists at all levels of expertise are invited to submit their artwork for consideration in the design contest.

) December 12, 2008 -- lifeBLUE Media is giving one lucky winner a free web design makeover. The 2nd Annual I Need a New Web Design Contest has officially started with more features than before to help contestants reach the coveted #1 ranking. Registration is 100% free and everyone stands a chance to win as the grand prize is determined by the website with the highest number of average daily votes.

) October 23, 2009 -- Dating back to 2002, the American Design Awards' Semi Annual Design Contests have been the most recognized and respected independent juried graphic and web design awards program worldwide. The most recent contest which took place in late August of 2009 attracted designers from 45 different countries around the globe. "It is a great honor to go through the list of participants and see all the outstanding talent" said Art Javid, vice president of ADA. "But even more amazing is that 60% of this year's participants were from outside of the United State!"

ADA

) November 4, 2008 -- Showcase your unique christmas card design contest. Celebrate this holiday season with UK online printing company, Optimalprint's Christmas card design competition. Students and professional designers are challenged to design original christmas cards, business cards, and invitation cards.

There will be two grand prize winners, one for students/amateurs and one for professionals. Each grand prize winner will take home up to £1000 in prizes. Winning designs will be displayed online.

CAM Design has been recognized by The American Design Awards 2007 Winter Semi Annual Design Contest for outstanding corporate identity, self-promotion and invitation work. The design firm took home three awards, all for third place, in three unique categories.
The American Design Awards Semi Annual Design Contest recognizes individual graphic and web designers, design professionals and companies that value the art of visual communications in business. The contest is held in February and August of each year, offering twenty various categories for designers and firms to compete in. Overall, sixty accolades were awarded to nearly 1,250 design entries.

A website design contest has been launched by ContentLaundromat.com. They are looking for a Wordpress theme design for their new website to match their vision for a new content tool. The theme for the website design is a "Laundromat" that "cleans" articles written by others so that they pass through search engine's duplicate content filters.
The website design selected as the winner will receive $350 as well as exclusive access to their one of a kind website article content tool. The contest is running from 2 June 08 until Noon on Monday, 9 June 08 and is hosted at 99designs.com. Entrants must submit a full Wordpress theme compatible with Wordpress 2.5 using a look and feel of a laundromat, however instead of clothes, articles will be "cleaned".

We try to host and bring our audience a list of unique tutorials at ever experience level, so both the newbie and advanced Photoshop users will get some useful content.
Adobe Photoshop can be a bit intimidating for new users, with all its advanced features, and toolbars. So we will try to keep it simple, to give everybody a chance to get to know how fun and easy Adobe Photoshop can be when you get to know it.
www.photoshop.0tutor.com Has only been online for a very short period, but we have created at least one tutorial a day since it has been online and we will keep it that way, to keep it interesting.
We have also created an dynamic RSS feed

) October 12, 2009 -- Web designers can win a free MacBook Pro or an iPod Touch just by designing a great web site using the new Webvanta hosted content management system (CMS).

Designers don't need to install any software to use Webvanta, and they can continue to use whatever HTML and CSS design tools they want. Unlike most other content management systems, designers have unlimited design flexibility with Webvanta.

) November 6, 2008 -- Enter now for a chance to win up to £1000 in prizes and be published online. Optimalprint's graphic design competition ends November 14th.

The design competition is open to two different groups: student/amateurs and professional designers. Unique graphic designs from each group will be published online. Two grand prize winners win up to £1000 in prizes.

Submit designs in the following categories:

) June 12, 2009 -- The annual Parents magazine cutest baby photo contest ends June 24, 2009, so hopeful moms and dads need to enter pictures of kids soon. The editors of Parents are holding the amateur photography contest to find the cutest pictures of babies 3-24 months old and pictures of kids 2-6 years old. Two winners will appear on special dual covers for the magazine's November 2009 issue.

Parents magazine cover contest

) September 3, 2008 -- SlideShare.net, the world's largest community for sharing presentations, announced winners for The World's Best Presentation Contest 2008.

SlideShare Logo

Color Experts International (CEI), an offshore USA based firm provides most professional services in Photoshop retouching and image manipulation, graphic design, desktop publishing, digital prepress, web design and development at a most compatible price range. Color Experts International is the service provider of the following firms; catalog companies, photo studios, printing and prepress companies, graphic design firms, stock and commercial photographers and more.

) December 1, 2008 -- Optimalprint congratulates Karem Laguna and Sunnie Yeo for winning Optimalprint's first annual print design competition.

Each winner was chosen for submitting the most original design within their respective categories of professional designer and amateur/student designer.

"It was a tough decision for me. There were so many excellent designs submitted" says Henrik Müller-Hansen, CEO of Optimalprint.

LogoBee.com launches 4th annual Logo Design Makeover, a contest open to charities and non-profit organizations. 10 winning entries will receive logo design, stationery design, and 2 grand prize winners will receive logo design, stationery design, and website design as well.

The company invites graphic designers from all countries to participate in the contest, and submit their fresh banner ideas and landing pages layouts.

July 15, 2008 --
Step One: Right-click on the desired wallpaper to save to your hard drive
For Mac users, you can either save the image to a folder or add it to iPhoto library. For PC users, you can save the wallpaper into “My Pictures” folder. Then you can sync the iPhone or iPod touch with photos in iPhoto ‘08 on a Mac, or Photoshop Album 2.0 or later or Photoshop Elements 3.0 or later on a PC. You can also sync with any folder on your computer that contains images.
Step Two: Connect the iPhone or iPod touch to your computer
1. Launch iTunes then click the Photos tab and select “Sync photos from:”
2. From the pop-up menu, do one of the following:
* If you’re using Mac, choose iPhoto or your Pictures folder.

) October 31, 2008 -- Planetwide Games Inc, creators of the MashON suite of creative social media applications announced the MashON 2008 Halloween Comic Strip Contest, which begins on October 31, 2008 and ends on November 15, 2008. The MashON Halloween Contest is the first in a series of three MashON Holiday contests for 2008, where participants will have the opportunity to create and share their favorite holiday stories at MashON.com.

2008 MashON Halloween Contest

Marysville, OH -- UniKeep LLC, a Univenture company, is the manufacturer of the award winning View Case Binder and an extensive line of unique document storage and handling products. The company is delighted to announce the Best of Show and Best of Category winners for the 2007 UniKeep Design Contest. The contest, now in its fifth year, offered a $1,500 cash prize to the Best of Show winner and a $500 cash prize to each of the five Best of Category winners. Contest judges chose the talented winners from the monthly winners during 2007 and winning entries were announced in the January Issue of UniKeep eNews.

) September 17, 2009 -- Costume Pop.com is on a mission to create a website that allows people to find, share, discuss and shop for costumes. To kick off Halloween 2009, Costume Pop is giving away up to $250 in Amazon gift certificates to the most fun, creative and original costume submissions. Costume Pop's 2009 Halloween Costume Contest

Costume Pop seeks out the best the web has to offer in creative, funny and original costume ideas and costumes for adults, children, infants and pets. From homemade and elaborate to store bought and wacky, Costume Pop makes it easy to browse and discuss costumes year-round.

) July 1, 2009 -- MediaFocus.com, a supplier of high quality, royalty-free stock photography, just added "image credit packages" as a new option to license stock photos, making it one of the most versatile stock photography agencies on the market. At MediaFocus graphic designers, advertising professionals, and anybody in need of professional stock photography can license stock photography fitting their personal purchasing style and budget.

Viovio Announces it's 2009 Holiday Template Design Contest. Anyone can enter to win up to $150 in prizes in exchange for their creativity. Enter your designs or simply show your support by voting for the designs you like.

) June 8, 2009 -- Broadjam.com (http://www.broadjam.com) , an independent music website featuring free music promotion, music licensing opportunities, and music contests, launched the 2009 6-Pack Songwriting contest, now in its fifth year.

The 6-Pack Contest consists of six individual songwriting challenges, which take place between June and September 2009. Prizes are awarded at each challenge step, but each challenge is also designed to be a little more difficult than the previous. By the sixth challenge, the level of difficulty is high and the results very exciting. This year, prizes to be awarded are valued at over $85,000.

) August 19, 2009 -- HatchWise originally launched in 2008 as eLogoContest.com, with the intention of creating a platform that would allow multiple designers to compete for work by submitting completed logo design proposals to project briefs (design contests) that had in turn been posted by startup businesses. The businesses review and rate the designs, then purchase the rights to the one they like the best for around $250.

"The response was exciting," reports founder George Ryan, "in less then a year we had more then 1,800 designers on board with us, and over 700 businesses had developed their brands using the site."

Crowd-sourcing internet startup, DesignByHumans.com, supports artists around the globe through its ongoing daily t-shirt design contest. The company is launching year two with a $10,000 grand prize for a single t-shirt design. (PRWeb Sep 16, 2008)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/09/prweb1343644.htm

) October 15, 2009 -- ClassesandCareers.com is inviting readers to submit their best tips on scavenging for free food to win a host of prizes in their new contest, Student Scavenger Contest 2009. Entries range from desperate to funny to despicable.

The contest asks readers to share their original "starving student" stories of how they successfully foraged for free food. The first-prize-winner will receive a $100 restaurant gift card, a $200 Wal-Mart gift card, and a case of Top Ramen. Second place will win a Wal-Mart gift card and a case of Top Ramen. Third place gets a case of Top Ramen. The contest is open to all site visitors, not just current college students.

September 3, 2008 --
KAYSVILLE, UTAH (September 2, 2008) – Tax preparers nationwide will have the opportunity to put their skills to the test in the third round of the Tax Hero Challenge contest. Preparers can enter and compete head-to-head from September 1, 2008 through October 31, 2008. Entrants who legally calculate the biggest refund during the contest period will win an iPod® touch.
“Tax preparers are often unsung heroes for millions of American’s. We thought it would be appropriate to recognize the elite tax preparers in our country, and encourage them to have some fun at what they do best,” said Lynn Tenney, director of communications at RedGear Technologies.

) December 3, 2008 -- AbsolutVision Stock Photo, the Internet's first JPEG2000 stock photography service is offering a 40 percent discount on annual subscriptions through Jan. 5th, along with a newly created one-day subscription plan of 10 pictures for $4.95.

Founded in 2002, www.absolutvision creates and sells royalty free JPEG 2000 digital images to both consumers and businesses. The company's successful subscription-based model is cost-effective and allows users to download thousands of quality pictures for a fraction of the cost and time typical in gathering images for commercial or personal use.

New contest for businesses to help launch a credible and effective online presence.

) December 1, 2008 -- Tempe, Ariz.-based Mindspace was the recipient of seven American Design Awards (ADA) during the ADA Summer Semi-Annual Design Contest. Mindspace was one of 58 winners selected from 1,447 entries from around the world.

We're elated to receive these accolades and we're even happier that the award-winning projects turned out to be highly successful for our clients

) May 21, 2009 -- Parents magazine today thanked seven mom blogs for encouraging hopeful moms and dads to enter pictures of children in the annual Parents.com cutest baby photo contest. The editors of Parents are holding the amateur photography contest to find the cutest pictures of babies 3-24 months old and pictures of kids 2-6 years old. Two winners will appear on special dual covers for the magazine's November 2009 issue.

Parents magazine cover contest

) October 23, 2008 -- After listening to thousands of submissions from musicians all over the nation, WeMix.com, the fast-growing, user-generated music creation and record label community for independent artists and Grammy award winning artist Mike Shinoda is pleased to announce the selection of five finalists for the "Mike Shinoda: The Glorious (WeMix)" songwriting contest.

Kid-friendly community-outreach contest microsite draws over 32,000 visitors.

) September 19, 2008 -- It has been said that the best things in life are free, and one Web site is adding a little more legitimacy to that old adage. ToyotaLiveWeb.com has introduced two new promotions that are giving residents in the Eastern US the chance to win a 2009 Toyota Yaris Liftback and $5000 in cash prizes.

Contest to Win a 2009 Toyota Yaris Liftback

For one night the most talented designers and celebrated fashion industry professionals will come together for a great cause at the "Designed to a Tee" event in New York City. The competition will be highlighted by a tee shirt design contest by emerging New York design students and will be judged by a distinguished celebrity panel. (PRWeb Nov 14, 2008)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/11/prweb1607284.htm

) April 29, 2009 -- Parents magazine is offering photography tips to hopeful moms and dads who are entering pictures of their chidren in the annual Parents.com cutest baby photo contest. The editors of Parents are holding the amateur photography contest to find the cutest pictures of babies 3-24 months old and pictures of kids 2-6 years old. Two winners will appear on special dual covers for the magazine's November 2009 issue.

Parents magazine cover kid photo contest

Sharon Elcock, Sittings Editor at Parents, shared 10 photography tips for moms and dads entering pictures of children in this year's cutest baby photo contest:

) July 7, 2009 -- PixelNovel announced today the commercial release of Timeline - the version control system for Adobe Photoshop based on Subversion(SVN).

Timeline works as a Photoshop plug-in and features a unique user interface that allows you to always see the file's history, save and get file versions without switching from the main Photoshop window. The software is available for both MS Windows and Mac OS X versions of Adobe Photoshop.

PixelNovel Timeline - version control for Photoshop

) September 15, 2009 -- The Sinclair Institute announced its 6th annual Erotic Fiction Contest today taking place on its web site BetterSex.com. This year's contest adds over $4,000 in cash and prizes to the $15,000 the company awarded in similar contests moving the company's total to close to $20,000 in prize money to amateur erotic writers in 6 contests over five years. "I had no idea how much people love to write and read erotic stories," explained Martin Smith a Director at the company and the competition's creator, "We are writers who know how hard it is to get paid for writing," Mr. Smith shared. This explains the company's generous stance on copyright.

) August 17, 2009 -- With the number of iPhone apps just now reaching almost 70,000, iPhone app developer Unique Apps is getting a little creative for the launch of their newest app: PhotoScatter.

PhotoScatter $1,000 Contest

Ryan Wade, founder of Unique Apps, is giving away almost $1,000 in total prizes on Youtube to help his application make the Top 100 Apps List on iTunes.

) June 24, 2009 -- Greenwala, the green social network, today launched its socially conscious contest platform with three contests that allow members to show off their skills with t-shirt design, green cooking and photography.

"Our socially conscious contest platform combines a sponsor company or brand with a nonprofit partner," said Rajeev Kapur, chief wala, Greenwala. "The nonprofit partner aligned with each contest will receive a portion of sponsorship dollars based on community participation. The more participants in the contest, the larger percentage of sponsorship the nonprofit will receive, up to a predetermined cap established for each contest."