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» The Photoshop User Awards

Just announced are the fourth annual Photoshop User Awards by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. It’s a really big contest here which everyone around the world is eligible to enter. The grand prize winner will get a trip to Barcelona, Spain with an "assistant" (of their choice) and the opportunity to shoot the cover for an issue of the Photoshop User Magazine. From November 1 and on you’ll be able to enter your art, maximum of three pieces per person (along with some other rules). The entry fee is $35 (or $25 if you are a NAPP member). There are a bunch of different categories to enter in—with great prizes in all categories—which you can see below:

• General Photography (digital or traditional scanned images manipulated or collaged in Photoshop)
• Illustration (original creations drawn or created in Photoshop)
• Artistic (artistic creations)
• Photo Restoration (Restoring or repairing damaged images - die: rips, scratches, tears, faded photos, etc.)
• Wedding and Portrait Photography (Wedding or Portrait images enhanced using Photoshop.)
• Landscape & Travel Photography (Outdoor photography enhanced or corrected, or processed in Photoshop)
• Photo Retouching (Retouching people, landscapes, architectural images, commercial retouching, etc.)
• Advertising Design (Images used in brochures, annual report collages, advertising, logos, etc.)
• Composites and Collaging (Collage of images).
• Student Work (Images created or manipulated by students. NOTE: A valid student ID is required to enter work in this category).
• General Photoshop Design (Images that don’t fit into one of the categories listed above, die: cartoons, Photoshop graffiti art, tattoo art, medical imagery, astronomy, etc.).

» iPhone Photo Contest

As a launch event for their newest update to the iPhone Book, Scott Kelby and Terry White is holding a contest. The whole idea is that you take a photo with your iPhone that you submit to either of the three categories which then goes to voting for the winner. You can enter as many as three photos in total. Below is an output of how it works that Scott wrote on his site.

 

1. You can enter up to three photos (total) taken with your iPhone (doesn’t matter if it’s the original model, or the new 3G).
2. There are five different categories; Friends, Pets, Family, Fine Art, and Office. The winner in each category gets a $100 iTunes Gift card and a copy of “The iPhone Book” 2nd edition.
3. The Grand prize winner gets a $500 Apple Store Gift Card, and a copy of “The iPhone Book” 2nd edition.
4. From the photos submitted by the deadline of Oct. 24, 2008, Terry and I will choose three finalists in each category, and then the public gets to vote for the winner in each category (the one getting the most votes wins). Then, from those Winners Terry and I will choose a Grand Prize Winner on November 3, 2008.
5. This may seem obvious, but of course, the photo has to be taken with your iPhone’s built-in camera.
6. You can edit your photos using any iPhone application available from the iTunes Apps Store, or any other image editing application, but no other non-iPhoto photos may be included in your entry (so you can’t take your iPhone photo and composite it with a photo taken with your DSLR, point-and-shoot, or a stock photo).
7. You may not give your iPhone to Jay Maisel, Joe McNally, or Moose Peterson. Not even to make a phone call.
8. There is no entry fee, and the contest is open to everyone; You do not have to buy “The iPhone Book” to enter, but it certainly wouldn’t hurt.
9. Whining of any kind, about anything, is strictly prohibited.
10. You can submit your photos, and learn more about the contest at the official contest site (here’s the link).

It’s a great contest and a great book. Get the full contest scoop at the official site, and get the book at the Amazon.com ($13.95). The book is an update to their previous bestseller of the iPhone book (now updated to include the new iPhone 3G) with tips and tricks on how to use and get the most of your iPhone!

» Monday Newsflash

Some cool things do happen on Mondays as well despite you think everyone is still left in their weekend mood. For me it is back to school tomorrow with a lot of school work, client work and project work to do on the same time however I have made it a new-years resolution to plan better this year, hope I continue with it as well otherwise it is only going to come down on myself. Anyway, over to the news

Sony announces A200 dSLR!

Today, Sony has announced their latest dSLR, the successor of the A100 is the brand new A200, featuring a 10.2 megapixel sensor, 2.7″ LCD screen and most notably an increased SteadyShot™ function that offers 2.5-3.5 steps anti-shake performance with all ? lenses. Sounds pretty cool really, price appears to be somewhere around $700-$900 kit-wise and they have continued support for all Sony and Minolta lenses Read more about it here.

ACE Boot Camp training course from Matt Kloskowski

Over at Kelby Training, Matt Kloskowski has just released a new cool training class that prepares you for the Adobe ACE  (Adobe Certified Expert) Exam. Matt has teached this is a pre-con class along with Dave Cross from time to time at Photoshop World and it is now available at Kelby Training in their subscription based online training service. Check it out!

 Lightroom tutorials in works!

I’m currently working hard on expanding the Lightroom tutorials booth with written text tutorials and recorded video tutorials. In this process I’d love to hear from you all what you want to see tutorials on as well so you get what you want So please leave a comment with what you want to see, also note I’m taking ideas on all the suite products so it doesn’t have to be Lightroom.

Photograph of the Year contest at Photography Corner

Photography Corner is still holding their Photograph of the Year contest and it is open to entrants until the 15th January! It’s just too cool to pass with over $20,000 in total prices and about $5,000 for the first price winner, prices ranking all the way down until the 10th place and that still is some pretty darn cool prizes! So go over to Photography Corner and check it out!

» The Monday Stuff

There are a lot of things going on right now and here is a couple of goodies and news and as you see, I’m in for the posting and updating this week

Rumor: Canon releasing new dSLR in late January?

A new rumor has it that Canon will be releasing new cameras and specifically a new dSLR on January 24th, a week before PMA. The rumor has emerged from the Swedish camera magazine, Kamera och Bild’s web edition and the article there can be read here, in Swedish. Now this rumor doesn’t seem that unqualified since it comes right from the VP of Canon Sweden. We’ll just have to stay tuned and see!

Making your own calendars? Check this template out!

I’m making my own calendars for printing to family and friends this year as I did last year and when searching on the web, I found this nice and easy to customize calendar template online that consists of a .psd (Photoshop) file for each month! Complete with dates and all however in the format with Sunday first and Saturday last in the weekdays… Take a look here! My own calendar is not fully ready yet, but I’ll post some photos of it up when it is done!

Print purchases available from my photos!

If you remember me saying a while ago that I won a photograph contest where the prize was a years pro-membership to a website and service called SmugMug, then I can gladly say (and for those of you that don’t recall that as well) that I’ve finally gotten that site fully set-up and I’m uploading new photos and stuff there all the time and I find the site great! So if you want to purchase my prints, just head over to the Bernskiold Photography website and have a look!

Big photography contest coming up!

I know I’ve been saying this for a while now but it is really close to be released right now and it is gonna be huge I tell you! An advise you can get before it is released is to go over the photos you’ve taken this year and narrow out your best (only for this year of 2007)! Now I can confirm though that (if you wasn’t reading this, you wouldn’t know ;)) the contest is coming up in only a couple of hours, so I do really mean that it is close!

» It’s “Finally Friday”

Today is “Finally Friday” and I really mean it, I’m so happy it is Friday again and weekend because I’ve been so very busy during the week I’ve hardly gotten time to be on the computer. Anyway this was always going to be the most busy because it is the end of the term and yeah it is always most busy then. So here are the weeks hottest stuff

I won the contest I was nominated in…

I gotto start with some more self centered stuff eh, that’s all because I’m just totally psyched about it! If you remember I posted a little while ago that I had been nominated for Photograph of the Month over at the Photography Corner website and I’m stunned that I won the voting and my “Summer Memories” photograph became the photograph of the month of December over there, meaning it has now won two awards!! The prize was a one year pro account to SmugMug where I will be setting up a site where you’ll be able to buy my photos from! Cool eh

Wacom Cintiq 12WX

Wacom has announced a brand new tablet in their Cintiq lineup, it is a smaller 12″ tablet (active screen size) that works just like a regular drawing tablet, only it has a screen built right in. It looks super cool and the resolution is 1280×800. You can read more about it here!

Adobe News!

• Adobe has released Camera Raw 4.3.1 that addresses some bugs in the 4.3 release. You can download it for free here!

• Adobe has also redesigned their entire company website over at Adobe.com to match the new creative suite! To me I think the design is well organized and it looks very stylish, so go and explore and enjoy the interactivity as well! By just taking a quick look at the source it appears that they have used a couple of their own suite programs (apart from the design side) such as Dreamweaver (I see presence of DW Templates) which is pretty cool in and of itself!

» Friday News

Long week it has been without much news posted and it is finally weekend though, which is great. First off we have a contest tip! It’s from Think Tank and it’s a daily prize draw, from November 16 to December 15. Head over to the contest site and put in your first name and e-mail and you will be in the draw every day! So if you don’t win one day, you’ll still be in the next. One bag per day and the only bag you cannot win is the Airport Security Roller! So check that out!

Printing problem in Photoshop CS3…Adobe is on it!

If you are one of the many people out there having a printing problem with Photoshop CS3, you’ll be pleased to know that Adobe is working on a solution! If you are interested in testing the solution, check out John Nack at Adobe’s blog from this link: Fixes for Photoshop printing due soon

Pros and Cons of Flash-Based web galleries!

Alright so I read this cool article over at Smashing Magazine (speaking of them, they only have cool articles :D) about the use of flash based galleries for displaying text etc. Check it out!

Epson’s new Exhibition Fibre Paper

LONG BEACH, Calif., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ — Epson America Inc. today announced what many professional photographers are saying is the perfect blend of revered darkroom papers with the limitless creative control of ink jet printing with the introduction of its Signature Worthy™ Exhibition Fiber Paper. The paper will be available in 25-sheet packages of 8.5″x 11,” 13″x 19,” 17″x 22,” and 24″x 30″ cut sheets.

This breakthrough paper was developed over several years in collaboration with many of the industry’s leading professional photographers to meet their most discerning requirements. Many who have contributed to the development of Exhibition Fiber Paper have commented that what sets it apart are its extraordinary blacks, clean whites and a surface texture that is just like a true black-and-white silver gelatin print. Additionally, Exhibition Fiber Paper produces extraordinary color output enabling photographers to make stunning prints in both color and black-and-white.

Check it out at the full press release on the Epson site, right here!

» Entering Banner Contest!

I decided to enter a swedish banner contest sponsored by Microsoft to promote the Office:mac 2008. If you want to go and vote for me, click here and then rate the banner you see from 1-5 where 5 is the highest The two highest rated each get an iPhone and so does the two Microsoft’s pick and the site editors two picks! So in total there is a full 6 iPhones in the run!