Ever want to use your design skills to make a difference?

The American Red Cross is holding a t-shirt designing contest. The winner will receive $1000, media attention, their designed featured on 600,000 shirts, and the knowledge that they’re doing a part in helping those in need!

This contest is open to anyone. The winning shirt will be given to youth volunteers (high schools and colleges) who donate blood as a thank you gift and to incite others to donate as well. The deadline for this contest is March 21, 2008 and winners will be announced on April 4, 2008.

So roll up those sleeves (hah!) and get cracking!

[Via You the Designer]
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Some of you may remember last month when I posted about Photoshop Cafe’s $6300 Photoshop Contest.

Entrants had to design a video game cover based on a Photoshop Tool. Judging is broken down into overall impact, concept, and skill. Judging has finally begun and you can view all the finalists here! Make sure to vote for your favourite, since the People’s Choice Award will also be giving out prizes to the best designs as decided by YOU, the public!

Dodge and Burn is one of my favourites so far – which one do you fancy?

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I happened upon a free collection of paper texture brushes for Photoshop which seem pretty decent.

When you were a kid perhaps you did that project at school where you try and make an old looking document? I used an oven, vinegar and a lot of hope to get mine in on time!

For a while the idea of doing the same thing again has been circling around my head – but using Photoshop this time. At least this way the fire department will have a more peaceful day.

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Do you write about Photoshop? Have a tutorial site like this one? Love talking about graphic design and helping out your fellow enthusiasts?

Jacob Cass at Just Creative Design is putting out a contest for article writers! Basically, if you’ve written an article, tutorial, tip, or even a list of cool resources to put on the web, you have a chance to win nearly $5000 worth of prizes! Just send him the link to your article and he’ll advertise it. The deadline is the 4th of March, where multiple winners will be randomly chosen to win some super neat stuff!

The top prize is an Electric Guitar for practising all your slick licks. This package also comes with a dozen accessories including a gig bag, electronic tuner, and an instructional DVD!

The runner up and bonus prizes have a bunch of neat stuff pertaining to graphic design. Second place consists of some really useful stuff for our art – namely 597 vectors from GoMedia, 80 Adobe brushes, and 55 iStockPhoto credits. Equally interesting stuff is scattered in the third and bonus prize slots, including logo/header designs, consultations with prominent bloggers and graphic designers, free advertising and critiques, and a crapload more.

So what are you waiting for? It’s free publicity for your articles and your blog/website, and you stand a chance of winning some really cool stuff! I know I’ve sent in some entries.

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Grab your artsiest robe, your best wand for charms, turn up some wicked wizard rock, roll up your sleeves, and get ready to make some Photoshop Magic!

You’ll learn how to make this Silver Text using this Photoshop tutorial, which is similar to the text used in Harry Potter movie titles.

You’ll learn how to adjust different text properties (kerning, tracking, and baseline shifts) as well as layer styles.

This Silver Text can easily be adjusted to make Gold, Bronze, or Bright-Green Polka-dotted (if you’re so inclined) text as well, so head on after the break to get started!

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Alright, this doesn’t have anything to do with Photoshop but I found it today while browsing and thought it was too cool. Go to any webpage (try it out on this one!), delete the url in the address bar, and copy and paste this:

javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

Now try to click images/move them around, edit the text …

The results are not permanent of course. Neat little trick!

Valentine’s Day is coming soon – show Photoshop some love by installing a few Free Heart Brushes!

An extensive list of heart brushes has been collected for your perusal and use. Ranging from grungy retro to thumping elegant, you should be able to find the perfect heart brush you need for your project. Perhaps it’s time to design a Valentine for your special someone?

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