What Do You Think Would Make a Great PSDTUTS Contest?
In News by Sean HodgeWe've got a quick contest update. Also, we'd like to know what you think would make a great contest. It's not long before we'll be launching the next contest, as we'd like to do this monthly. We want to continue to make the contests here successful. Leave a comment letting us know what you think would make a great PSDTUTS contest. Feel free to throw multiple ideas out.
Brainstorming Ideas for New Contests
We're seeing a lot of participation in this month's AudioJungle Wallpaper Design contest, and the first PSDTUTS contest went great as well. We want to keep this momentum going. If you have any suggestions on contests you'd like to see run here, let us know. The monthly contests have been a success so far, let's brainstorm a bit as a community to keep this going.
Leave a comment indicating what you think would make a great PSDTUTS contest. I'm sure we've all got some great ideas we could add. As with any brainstorming session, just throw ideas out! We want to here what you think will make a great contest!
Here are a few ideas I have to get the ball rolling on this. We could have a poster contest, maybe focus on movie posters, or something retro. We could have a contest that is based on designing websites, or an icon design contest, maybe focused on a theme. These are kind of general ideas, but you get the idea. Let us know what you think would make a good contest! Thanks!
This Month's AudioJungle Contest is Going Strong
We have over 100 images submitted in this month's AudioJungle Wallpaper Design contest. Also, the quality of submissions is really high. Check out the submitted entries at this link. There is still plenty of time before the end of the month to get your submission in. It's going to be difficult deciding the winners!
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Paul Roman
June 21st, 2008
It’s a great thing that we’ll have contests. But at the moment, I have no idea of what contests.
Bruce Alrighty
June 21st, 2008
A contest where participants compete to redesign a chosen website the best.
Eric.P
June 21st, 2008
Something to do with this disaster of presidential election we are having, that or the horrid gas prices!
Josh
June 21st, 2008
1) Choose a famous quote from a person in history, participants have to design a piece based on what that quote means to them.
2) One for Nettuts, make available a simple HTML file with no styling or layout elements. Participants must not alter this file, and build a stylesheet to make the html file look as good as possible. Similar to the idea of CSSZengarden.com.
I will post more ideas later.
Dad
June 21st, 2008
Redesign the header of all ***tuts sites!
Alex Beltechi
June 21st, 2008
1. Create an entirely new effect using only Photshop and no stock photography.
2. Select a limited number of photos, say two or three and create a design using only those.
3. A Photshop “tool” contest. Select one of the Photoshop tools, i. e. the pen tool or the history brush tool, and make a design based on that. Make things trickier by limiting the number of tools allowed…
William Mackenzie
June 21st, 2008
I say a album cover for your favourite videogame! lol but yeh
Jayden
June 21st, 2008
Well i know its weird but one topic i really fascinated about is ascension.
Being able to go above the normal limit’s. and if you could what strengths would you give yourself.
The explosion tutorial gave us a good example of what that could be like.
I think it will also be a good contest because it involves people.
If you could become stronger what would you give yourself
here are a few examples.
Flight, Telepathy, Nature Manipulation
Diver Dan
June 21st, 2008
A t-shirt Design competition or a contest to see who could think of the best contest.
Callum Martin
June 21st, 2008
Perhaps design an eden wallpaper?PSD/Net/Vectortuts wallpaper?
Marcelo
June 21st, 2008
I second Josh’s idea about the quote.
As for my idea, contestants submit very short tutorials. Nothing complicated, just tips and tricks that would be useful for beginners. Beginners like me.
Shane
June 21st, 2008
I like the website redesign best - see what people come up with
BogDinamita
June 21st, 2008
i would love to work on a CD cover or movie poster. my fav kind of stuff
Wouter
June 21st, 2008
Oke, I’m not speaking good english but i’m gonna try.
A contest like this:
Inspiration for free you can make what you want but there need some special effects in.
So you can make a house and a sea. a rare combination but thats just the beauty of all.
Just smash al your prints in eachother and make a nice outcome
Hans Vargas
June 21st, 2008
How about a banner for PSDTuts to put in other web pages?
That way you are not only designing but creating something useful…
Just like the present contest… which is useful because of the wallpaper for audiojungle..
Zeb
June 21st, 2008
Yes, a little format or panoramic format ? , hum i’m inspired today…
Barry Ryan
June 21st, 2008
BEST CONTEST IDEA; colorize an artists lineart or a BnW photo.
In my experience this format is always where the best discussion is opened up, where the most creative insight is needed and where attention to detail is a must.
Ross
June 21st, 2008
I thought maybe following on from Nik’s tutorial, you could give us a face which we have to edit in any way we want, think it would bring out some cool ideas.
I also like Josh’s NETTUTS contest idea, think that would be good cos it would combine VECTORTUTS and PSDTUTS so we were making the graphics for the page aswell, I guess not everyone can code and use Photoshop though.
Ben Griffiths
June 21st, 2008
We could have a “Guess the color scheme of the next *TUTS website” contest
jerry
June 21st, 2008
Well, this is PSDTuts, why not make a contest about the best tutorial ?
If you ave to fight for something, fight with tutorials for the winning money.
PSDTuts will have a ton of new tuts + you will have the chance to win some money
The best tut, that shows pure awesomeness, wins !
Dave
June 21st, 2008
I would like to submit an idea… but don’t wish for it to be published. Can I have an email address to submit an idea in private??
Triple-H
June 21st, 2008
Hi
what about a contest for designing PSD tuts gravatar
the red one with the READER text is not really cool
let’s make a contest to find sth better
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Or wallpaper contest for the flatuts website
what you think?
Sean Hodge
June 22nd, 2008
Hey everybody,
Some great ideas here, keep them coming! The contest idea brainstorming sessions is going great. I’m avoiding commenting on any specific ideas at this point. I think this is the time were we really just get as many good ideas out as we can. Then later we start to analyze them.
@Dave - feel free to use our contribute form to send in an idea. It’s located on our contribute page. We really need to get a general email form setup. I’ll put that request in. Though use the contribute form for now http://www.formspring.com/forms/?285484-26dtvVnE2a
I had a couple more ideas. I thought it would be cool to have a collaboration contest. So, you would have to partner up to enter and win. Then you’d pass the design file back and forth between you and another designer and you’d both share the prize.
Also, I’ve seen people mentioning ways that more than one Tuts site could be involved. So, maybe something that combines pixels and vector graphics to bring Vectortuts into it in some way.
Lot’s of great ideas! Keep them coming!
Nesmeyanova Yulia
June 22nd, 2008
I htink that my work is not bad
Why i dont see it here?
Diesel
June 22nd, 2008
I think a superhero theme - or one where you turn a picture of yourself into a superhero would be great. That way, we can all go crazy with our designing and there would be such a display of talent on the site!
Mh CHOG
June 22nd, 2008
I would love to see some tutorials about they have done these Flickr pictures!
Kvn
June 22nd, 2008
Maybe a contest for designing commercial posters for products such as laptops, cars, phones…
ViniMan
June 22nd, 2008
-A contest were a few stock images are given to work with.
-An official TUTS-logo contest.
-An image of a car that has to be skinned/tuned.
Thinker
June 22nd, 2008
I really like the idea of redesigning a website. Good job. Maybe a big site, something like google or yahoo. Og wikipedia.
Danny
June 22nd, 2008
Wow those entries are amazing
Sebs
June 22nd, 2008
What about an DOTW (Design of the Week). A weekly contest. Make the best Design by using Tuts (from all ***tuts.com sites, but mainly psdtuts) from the Week before (same week would be idiotic). Open the Contest with a link of all Tuts and let us be creatife)
btw. I hide in the Dark, but i am reading here alot and i must say its my favourite Tutwebsite on the net. Thanks to everyone who makes this so brilliant
Danny
June 22nd, 2008
Some great ideas here.. I like the zengarden idea personally! (proposed by Josh)
Natetronn
June 22nd, 2008
PSD Speed Contest?
I think it would be cool to do a speed contest. Where everyone gets together at a certain time with a time limit and then the moderator puts up a theme or concept (maybe some pictures/textures) and everyone tries their best to complete something in say an hour or two hours. Maybe have to have two separate contests/themes for time zone issues.
I have seen this done in the 3d world, its called speed modeling, over at Deviant Art.
The only problem, and not to be to down on myself, is that I don’t think I would be able to compete against you guys in my own contest idea
Kelly
June 22nd, 2008
I actually liked Jayden’s idea - it’s a bit hard to grasp for the most part, but it certainly challenges the mind to come up with something to visually convey the idea.
William Mackenzie
June 22nd, 2008
actually how about psdtuts messes up an image and then you have to make it normal
aGS
June 22nd, 2008
I am with Bogdinamita, movie poster or cd cover with limited number of photos… and maybe limited number of submitions too… not 14 but maybe 2 from every designer…
Hans Vargas
June 22nd, 2008
design a t shirt for the site…..
Aaron
June 22nd, 2008
whoa, the ideas posted here are really interesting. i like Sean’s collab idea, it’ll make this community stronger. and also Dan/Hans’ shirt design idea. oh, and the superhero idea by diesel.
Hans Vargas
June 22nd, 2008
sorry Diver Dan…. I did not see that you had posted the tshirt idea before I did….
SEO
June 22nd, 2008
I think.. Concept Car.. and sell it to car manufacturer..
Elliot
June 22nd, 2008
try and draw a famous photo using only photoshop and a tablet/mouse…
as in digital art drawings because there has only been one drawing tut on this site
roiji
June 22nd, 2008
how about making something like “Planet Green” like that of Discovery Channel’s program theme…?
about ecology and recycling or something? hehe’
Resonance
June 23rd, 2008
Index page for a special marketing event.
No stock used, everything must be digital.
Give a wiked theme like : hybrid lawnmower (this is totaly crazy)
and participants must come with a cool design that emphys that idea and give “vitual visitors” the objective to “enter the site” to find out more.
Mark Provan
June 23rd, 2008
How bout a contest that incorporates skills learned from all of the TUTS site?
Just a thought
Tom Ross
June 23rd, 2008
I think it would be fun to host a contest for the most creative way to promote PSDTUTS. This would include online/offline options - really anything people can dream up. So hopefully this would encourage people to experiment with fun/unique ways to promote the website. Bumper stickers, posters, maybe a video on Youtube of shouting about it in a mall, wearing a psdtuts tshirt for a whole week and blogging about it. I’m sure people could come up with some hilarious ways that would draw a lot of attention to the website.
Joharin
June 23rd, 2008
1. Why not redesign something that is proven to be a bad design? Turn it into something WOW!
2. I second tom ross, most creative way to promote psdtuts. It would be fun to see people wearing psdtuts shirt or even psdtuts shoe! We can turn the community into a culture!
Triple-H
June 23rd, 2008
we can try PIMP MY RIDE
the admin will bring a car photo and everyone download it and start tuning it using photoshop only
the best car gets the award
how about that????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
dsreaper
June 23rd, 2008
An icon pack contest. You choose 10 - 15 types of icons to be made and we’re ready to rumble…
Brad
June 23rd, 2008
Something that includes tutorials please!!!
Maybe pick a tool on the toolbar and see who can make a tutorial that utilizes it or helps you learn to use it best.
Tom Ross
June 23rd, 2008
Thanks Joharin - that’s a good way of putting it. I was thinking of really pushing the limits of the psdtuts community and thought that might be a fun way to do it
Constantin Potorac
June 23rd, 2008
I have an idea that could probably be useful.
I was thinking that you provide a series of images that the participants will use to create a Photomanipulation. The same goes for other things like prints and so on.
Also a very interesting contest will be a website or template contest. Here you can also place a theme “cleanest template” or “most interesting” or “most complicates website”.
Or I was thinking of something like a team contest. This sounds a bit strange but I was thinking to something like one person designs something than he needs to give his work to another person and that second person needs to maybe improve the work, add something to it, use or change something from that work to make it better. And finally the best collaboration wins. I think this needs more thinking to it but I consider it to be an interesting contest.
Boo2Hed
June 23rd, 2008
It would be cool to see
*See who can redesign a car, like changing the color, lowering, tint, decal designs, background manipulation etc…
*Create a club flyer, with the details that you offer us. Whoever can best portray the details with the best typography, catch the audience the best, understand the principles of art etc in the design of the club flyer wins.
*You have to create an original tutorial that is mind blowing, so everyone can contribute, and if they dont win, but have a great tut, you can still post it.
*Morphing a celebrities face
*Creating a web site design layout in photoshop
But I would really like to the the club flyer one or car design.
Tell me what you think!
Tom Ross
June 23rd, 2008
Creating a ‘PSDTUTS’ template or wordpress theme that is then sold via a post on the blog (and perhaps in the sidebar for a limited time). The creator gets 100% of the profits from sales, PSDTUTS gets a lot of interest and time spent designing a theme based on their website. I think that it’s a potential for some designers to earn a lot of money whilst increasing the brand awareness of PSDTUTS.
goldenthunder
June 23rd, 2008
I agree with the movie poster idea
Drew
June 23rd, 2008
I think we should do a worth1000 style open-ended contest with a theme.
Or give everyone a few stock images, and create whatever you want. But the rule would be that you have to use every image in one form or another.
Alvaro
June 23rd, 2008
How about a seasonal contest, desingning a wallpaper for a montly hollyday, next month could be “july 4th” design anything (Web design, wallpaper, icon set) but according the holyday.
Just an idea
joharin
June 23rd, 2008
1. Luv Constantin idea’s of collobaration, probably would be better if we could combine all the ‘tuts’, for example someone designs brushes & vectors (vectortuts), then another person uses the ‘new tools’ to design something else in photoshop (psdtuts), and finally someone else integrates the design into a web portal…who knows, this could be the new web revolution…3.0!!!
2. Probably Collis and the management team could find a company with a new product that needs designs for their site, their poster/flyers/etc…psdtuts make money,the winner makes money, and the company received high hypes for the product! This could be combined with putting all the designs on t-shirt and so on!
mattems
June 23rd, 2008
how about…. a contest about coming up with a contest!
Boo2Hed
June 23rd, 2008
It would be cool to see
*See who can redesign a car, like changing the color, lowering, tint, decal designs, background manipulation etc…
*Create a club flyer, with the details that you offer us. Whoever can best portray the details with the best typography, catch the audience the best, understand the principles of art etc in the design of the club flyer wins.
*You have to create an original tutorial that is mind blowing, so everyone can contribute, and if they dont win, but have a great tut, you can still post it.
*Morphing a celebrities face
*Creating a web site design layout in photoshop
-MORE IDEAS-
*Design a magazine cover
*Design a movie poster
But I would really like to the the club flyer one or car design.
Tell me what you think!
DesignNerd
June 23rd, 2008
Hey Guys,
Just thought i might mention that some contest entries dont show up in a global tag search. You will see all the entries in a group tag search though.
Just thought id let PSDtuts staff know so that u dont miss any amazing entries
GREAT WORK!
No Name
June 23rd, 2008
I think it would be a great contest to see who can create the most creative/advanced pattern!
Its really hard to come up with a high detailed pattern and i would love to see some of the results…
FBdesign
June 23rd, 2008
how about giving a tutorial and recreate/redesign the bodypart of it + get your own idea inside of it ?
best realization gets a PSDtuts PLUS Membership ;P …
chris
June 23rd, 2008
Well let me say Im in love with PSD, so Im willing to help as much as possible to achieve the goal of ultimate web domination. Im guessing you want something generally global so people can let their creative juices flowing. Ill just pump out a few ideas for the topics you brought up in your post.
Poster:
Natural Elements (Such as fire, water, and wind.)
Vintage (Either old school, or old and used style.)
PSD Poster
1960 - 1970
Pin-up Girl (Might be a little advanced for the general skill level.)
Web Design or Icon ideas:
Natural Elements (Man I love this one.)
Sunshine
Edgy
Sleek
Themes:
Abstract.
Tattoo.
Contemporary.
Future. (With the Poster idea “PSD Poster” and future combined, you get the future of PSD poster!)
Its about 3 in the morning and I have work tomorrow at 6. I better get out of here because that seems to be all I can think of. Ill post more because its wired, tomorrow Ill only be thinking of this…. odd how that works.
Hans Vargas
June 23rd, 2008
like the idea from joharin (part 2 of it)
Chris_Halderman
June 23rd, 2008
A contest where u have 2 random photos and u have to make something out of it.
Best one wins.
BioMario
June 23rd, 2008
Hi
I think if we design any thing you given without use any image or any thing from outside just photoshop tools
Jay Reynolds
June 23rd, 2008
1. How about creating some contests relating to design time periods. For example, a contest for the artists interpretation for the modern era or pop art era. Some of these tuts show high ornamentation that could be used for art nouveau time periods as well. This will double as using the tuts that deal with a time period as well as learning about art history in the process.
2. Through some of the posts I read, I agree with promoting or using the designs for a purpose. The banner idea is great, b/c I think designing a 90 px X 250 px banner is very difficult to convey a full message in such a small space. This is rewarding when the problem is solved. The more difficult the problem to be solved, the better designers will become. Setting limits will definitely help everyone become a better designer and bring more purpose to their work.
It’s one thing to have an amazing cool thing… it’s so much more when that amazingly cool things has a greater purpose and solves an intriguing problem.
w1sh
June 23rd, 2008
I’d like to see a Freestyle Photoshop competition. Let the community judge who’s the best with a poll or something.
Triple-H
June 23rd, 2008
I still suggest a PIMP MY RIDE competition
let the admin bring a stock photo for a car and we must modify its shape and add decalls and other stuff
or the WORTH 1000 style comptetitions
nice ideas by everyone
waiting for the contest
Scott
June 23rd, 2008
The best idea for a contest would be to come up with either a top 101 styles, brushes, vectors PSD.
All entrants would be accessible to PSDTUTS Plus members, and the best could get a free pass to Plus!
Expanding Plus members’ libraries is the key to success!
Matt Radel
June 23rd, 2008
I’d like to see an all out battle royale of killer tutorials, tournament style. Put the final results of each tutorial up in brackets and have the loyal readers vote. I’d do a couple rounds to declare the winner, who gets a full blown feature on PSD tuts. It’d be fun for us, for the writers of the tuts as well as you guys (TONS of page views ahoy!).
Anyhoo, just my two cents.
Todd Andrews
June 23rd, 2008
How about a “Worst”, so some of us can play.
Triple-H
June 23rd, 2008
what about
contest for making designs that twist the eyes, you know, those that trick the eyes and seem like moving while not really moving
i dont know what they call them, but i never seen someone making those eye twisters on photoshop
i hope you understood what i mean: i mean those images the make the eye tired just by looking at them, those that look like twisted cubes and trick the eyes
I believe you got it
and i hope that you make such contest, i tried drawing these stuff on paper and that really worked, the paper contents seemed to be rotating!
what you think people???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Triple-H
June 23rd, 2008
or we can try to make paradox images like MC ECHER art
google him
and tell me what you think
Ross
June 24th, 2008
I think the whole collaboration idea sounds awesome, just like put everyone’s name in a hat then pair people up. Should work fine if we’ve got a whole month to work on it.
Josh
June 24th, 2008
Some more ideas from me
I realise my quote idea in the 4th comment may be a bit specific. What about a single word that people can realise in their own way? ‘Contrast’ for example is specific enough to be able to compare entries, (How well they demonstrate contrast), but is broad enough for people to interpret and design an amazing piece.
Alvaro : With the 4th of july idea, please bare in mind not all of us are american
Ellen
June 24th, 2008
I love the idea of the stock photo “mashup” contest. It’s been great to see what people can do with stock in the Audio Jungle contest.
shadow
June 24th, 2008
How about a SILVER SURFER EFFECT on your pictures? That would be fun! I think that no one has ever done that without any plug ins.. well, as far as I know.. : )
And without any use of plug ins..
I bet they can do just that! : )
Jelle
June 24th, 2008
This audiojungle contest is nice,
but a contest about designing a mobile phone or something like that stuff even more!
Mr_LeE
June 24th, 2008
An idea is making a wallpaper representing the colours CMYK (or RGB)
Just an idea.
btw great wallpapers for the audio jungle site so far!
Lee
Alex Beltechi
June 24th, 2008
One more idea…
Create some sort of design (poster, background, flier etc) using a single brush or vector pack. For instance one from http://www.designfruit.com could be a great choice…
Josh
June 24th, 2008
My ideas round 3
A mashup of a few ideas here. What about a zip/rar file is provided by the PSDTuts team consisting of resources, several stock images, brushes, vectors, 3d models, whatever. The task is for participants to use as many of the resources as possible to create the best image.
I can see this working as a way to get sponsors on board, a premium vector site may want to provide some vectors or brushes to use, stock photography sites may provide images, fonts, the list goes on.
If I haven’t explained this very well just shout and I’ll explain again
Sean Hodge
June 24th, 2008
Wow! I’m blown away by the high number of quality responses. Thanks everyone for sharing your ideas.
kingslip
June 24th, 2008
give us a fake company name and we give you the logo
chris
June 24th, 2008
Well hopefully you read my post above. I was a little tired as it said in my post so here’s a revised plus improved version. Ill just specify some of my ideas before. Now that I read over my past post I realized it was pretty vague. I have the tendency to get a little specific sometimes, so if something has to much thought, almost any of these can be applied to themes, posters, or icons as long as you simplify them.
Poster:
Natural Elements (Such as fire, water, and wind. I would love to see how the community would respond to this.)
Vintage (Either old school, or old and used style. Maybe add the theme of a vintage garage sale.)
PSD Poster (This would be awesome for the community to show the support of PSD, if you mixed this up with another poster idea or even a theme this could get really interesting. Like Natural Elements and a PSD Poster.)
1960 - 1970 (Anything historic from that time period or earlier. The only reason I picked the 1960’s and 70’s is because most members can associate to those times. For example The Harlem Riots, Woodstock style theme, Apollo 11, or heck, Woman’s Equality! Sorry Ladies. )
Pin-up Girl (Might be a little advanced for the general skill level.)
Web Design or Icon ideas:
Natural Elements (Man I love this one.)
Sunshine
Edgy
Sleek
Themes:
Abstract.
Tattoo.
Contemporary.
Future. (With the Poster idea “PSD Poster” and future combined, you get the future of PSD poster!)
Obviously I like posters or variations the best. In my opinion the themes should just be a theme for the poster or icon, but thats just me. I would bring up “Pop-Art” and whatnot but they have been mentioned and Im sure you can picture some of the stuff members could make.
MD
June 25th, 2008
Well, I think a lot of tuts
Anyway, PSD Tuts is great!
Frischmilch
June 25th, 2008
A greater PSDTUTS Contest - no matter in what direction your pointing at - can only be achieved if there’s a meaning/goal behind each entry.
I’m not talking about to do a movieposter or something else. In fact that doesn’t matter. It’s also no question if someone is able to get along with only a brush or doing something within 30 seconds. Point is - a contest can be compared to a any work for a client you working for.
IMO - a design can please or not, it can be timeless or just another copy/paste work. What really matters and were I see the clue is to focus on the process of the design. It’s equal to questions like: Why did someone choose a certain technique and why was it the best choice?
Designers and Contest out there are mostly zeitgeist oriented. I believe that in twenty years most of our todays design will be more then oldfashion. But why are there designs who didn’t lost thier actuallity? My answer to that question is simple. They crafted something with a goal to achieve. Maybe I cannot really explain myself better but just remind the industrial design of the Turntable Technics MK2 SL-1200. It had no intention to be extraordinary, the only intention was to fit all it’s functionality with the approach - build to last.
So - the find an ending point - if you launch another contest, don’t just judge the final result. Judge the whole process and show it to others. Let it be part of the entries that each of the contesters have to clarify thier designprocess.
Or in other words - THE JOURNEY IS THE REWARD, Chinese Proverb.
Thanks for reading. Yours sincerly Frischmilch from Switzerland.
Bakaburra
June 25th, 2008
First, sorry for my english, I´ll try to do my best.
Imagine that you are a company that wants to sell a very strange and rare product (a musical washing machine, a railgun that change your way of thinking…whatever your could think). You need designers to create an imaginative campaign (maybe one poster to resume the goal)…..you have to send us a short briefing with a description of the product you want to sell and who we we have to sell it to.
See you!
The Floating Frog
June 25th, 2008
A website redesign would be my choice.
Slashdot.org did this last year and the interest was phenomenal. It was a challenge because you can’t start from scratch, you need to abide by their brand guidelines, logo colour scheme and the general content and copy of the website. You could immediately recognise a professional from an ameteur through the design submissions.
How about a fictional redesign of a well known site we all use? How about PSDTuts.com? lol only joking, I love this website, but I’m sure we all have a website in mind that could do with a bit of jiggery pokery from the PSDTuts community? Food for thought
Lord McHammer
June 25th, 2008
I am sorry. Can you make a tut for a drawing the icon, like reader’s avatar or a contest icon on top of this page. Thanx beforhand!
PS: Sorry, if I make some mistakes in this text - I am not american, I am ukrainian :).
pwano
June 28th, 2008
it’s really awsome!
yamaniac
June 28th, 2008
well lets put some designer skills to use…. Bring it OOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Constantin Potorac
June 29th, 2008
Hey I have just come up with a new idea.
How about a HEAD 2 HEAD contest. Actually more. You decide the images we are allowed to use to create something we want. Only one submission allowed. The works will not be visible until the end of the contest.
This kind of the contest can be structured or changed in many ways. I think this will be a very interesting contest.
Greg Harrell
July 24th, 2008
I think a T-Shirt Contest would be fun if we had to use certain logo’s, text, or colors…..
Zoe
July 24th, 2008
it’s really awsome!