Best of Show Prize

The Best of Show winner will receive an all-expense paid, five-day dream assignment for two to an exciting location (the actual location will be announced in Oct. 2009) where you’ll use the backdrop of this location to inspire a cover design for Photoshop User magazine. Since the inception of the Photoshop User Awards, Best of Show winners have gone to Italy, France, Hawaii, and Spain, so you’re definitely in for a once-in-a-lifetime trip if you win Best of Show!

This amazing prize is courtesy of NAPP and includes your airfare, hotel accommodations, and daily expenses for you and an assistant of your choice (here’s a hint: officially, you don’t need to take an assistant with you… you can take your spouse, a friend or family member instead and just have a blast for five daysneed to take an assistant with you... you can take your spouse, a friend or family member instead and just have a blast for five days).

Category Prizes

Winners from each of the 11 categories will receive a prize package valued at $2,500 USD, and your work will be showcased in an issue of Photoshop User magazine where more than 120,000 readers will see it. We are in the process of signing up new sponsors.

Last year our sponsors provided:

Adobe - the latest Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 software

NAPP - two-year membership (or renewal for existing NAPP members)

Layers - two-year subscription to Layers magazine

Kelby Training - one-year subscription to online classes

Mpix - Two 20"x30" Color Prints/Kodak Professional Portra Endura Paper

Peachpit - book bundle that includes Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Book, Volumes 1 and 2; The Moment It Clicks by Joe McNally; Lessons in DSLR Workflow with Lightroom and Photoshop by Jerry Courvoisier; The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby, Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop's Most Powerful Feature by Matt Kloskowski: Photoshop Studio by Bert Monroy, and Digital Painting by Bert Monroy.