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Design the Photoshop Forums Banner challenge (on-going)

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
June 7, 2016
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Hi all,

We’d like to start an on-going challenge to share your creative talent with others.

Purpose: Create a Photoshop Forums Banner for the Photoshop forums overview page.

Using the template in this post, submit your Photoshop Forums Banner design by attaching your image in a response to this thread. We’ll then select the best submissions and use them for our Photoshop Forums banner image. A new banner image will be selected by an internal Adobe committee every 3 months and used in the Photoshop forums.

Use the attached banner template design as a starting point for your designs and will help you position your imagery where it won’t be covered:

Here's a link to another template, created by Trevor.Dennis with the PS logo, menu bar and text on a plain background to help with design element placement and help you keep everything within safe bounds.

Image dimensions: 1400px ×150px (72dpi)

File size: 30kb or less

File types: .JPG or .PNG

Please keep all submissions Photoshop-related (Photoshop UI is OK to use), safe for work, and use image content you have the rights to (do not use any copyrighted images).

Post your designs to this thread, and check back every couple of weeks where we’ll feature one of your designs here on the Photoshop Forums which is seen by over 35,000 people each month!

Looking forward to seeing what you can come up with.

Regards

Adobe Social Team

Template-Forum-Header.zip

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Anonymous

what is prize ?

davescm

Community Expert

Congrats to Trevor on winning.
If this is ongoing, I'll kick off one for the next round. Pinched a few symbols from the Photoshop interface

Dave

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Dave, this was supposed to have a three month turn around. We could choose to restart it ourselves, and then remind Pete.Green

What would be a decent time for folk to get their designs up? End of January?

davescm

Community Expert

Yes, sounds good and end of Jan should be plenty time for a good little project after Christmas

Dave

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miriam-z

Known Participant

Thank you so much and congratulations to everyone! All the designs were great and such a great idea to do this competition

StrongBeaver

Legend

I knew Trevor was going to win from the second day of the contest.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

I did too. It's such a good concept. But I think we all had fun with it just the same.

Nancy O.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

War Unicorn

Community Expert

(Decided to go less abstract this time.)

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

I finally set-up an Adobe Portfolio and Behance page. Still much work to do... But it's a minimal start anyway. You can see my banner submissions (including 1 new one) at links below.

Behance Photoshop Banners

Portfolio Nancy OShea

I think I'm finally done with this challenge .

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

postrophe

Inspiring

Hi

I finally set-up an Adobe Portfolio and Behance page

Nancy, that's very cool. Let's see if Trevor will follow

Pierre

Community Expert

Known Participant

Known Participant

Inspiring

Hi @barzzeb49197134

Is that a representation of a "darkroom" for you ? If so, you are dead wrong.

If it's a "black hole" or the kind, NASA have better imagery.

Pierre

Agent Provocateur

D Fosse

Community Expert

I know grunge is out, but...what the heck. I like things that look a little dirty. I even took the liberty to resurrect the old Photoshop eye:

EDIT: shucks!...it's the dark side of the moon...I swear that wasn't intended, I only see it now...

Oh well. Scrap it. Back to the drawing board. Or at least lose the rainbow.

D Fosse

Community Expert

So this is it until I can think of something better....

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I really like the blueprint idea Dag, but I am not so sure about the heavy grunge treatment, and I wonder if what looks like part of a picture frame at the top of the banner is contributing? The 150 pixel height includes the menu bar, which steals some of your banner when put together.

So, for me, your prism banner is a clear winner, even if it is reminiscent of DSOTM — Pink Floyd didn't invent that experiment. This one has more relevance as well, because the rainbow colours fit nicely with the concept of digital image editing. I nudged this one up a bit which has hidden the picture frame, and place the split light beam in a nicer place. Yes, I think this one is really nice.

floramc

Community Expert

I feel an urge to apologize with Pete, it's a person I like, when I see the enthusiasm around kitties and quackies I feel at least 50% guilty. There was a time this community was all about taking things sharply seriously... I know he summarise the concept of being cool, but I have my wonders if Ps+kitties+quackies is what he would rejoice as a cool banner...

Nevertheless, I'll give this a try, just because it's photoshop but I am in quite a busy time in my private so can't promise anything. If I make it for the show, I'd be happy to create something splashy. Let's the quackies stay for the connoisseurs

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

floramc wrote:
I feel an urge to apologize with Pete, it's a person I like, when I see the enthusiasm around kitties and quackies I feel at least 50% guilty. There was a time this community was all about taking things sharply seriously... I know he summarise the concept of being cool, but I have my wonders if Ps+kitties+quackies is what he would rejoice as a cool banner...
Nevertheless, I'll give this a try, just because it's photoshop but I am in quite a busy time in my private so can't promise anything. If I make it for the show, I'd be happy to create something splashy. Let's the quackies stay for the connoisseurs

Oh no! The fluffy kittens was taking the rise out of Dag and Pierre, and not a serious entry. They are not my pictures either, and nore were they stock images.

This idea came while typing out #94 with the splash screens, and is a serious entry.

Pete, are we definitely restricted to having white text on the Jive overlay? It forces us to compromise in order to have some of the text readable — like the right hand end of the above banner, which I would have loved to make a lot lighter, and several other banners have gone right ahead and used black text anyway.

floramc

Community Expert

Trevor.Dennis wrote:
Oh no! The fluffy kittens was taking the rise out of Dag and Pierre, and not a serious entry. They are not my pictures either, and nore were they stock images.

There are more than a thousands reasons to love this community. A touch of pride for seeing that fluffy kittens taking a rise might touch my achy quacky heart (don't tell my heart, my achy quacky heart, I just don't think it understand, and if you tell this heart, this achy quacky heart, it might blow up and splash the world) (you are welcome, if you had issues with that song before, I ruined it for the most of you, it's open to sue my achy quacky heart ) - and I am very humbled to hear the quacks and the splashes being called to such high honors.

I still see this wonderful multimillionaire international top of the world company that had the Simpsons to partner with the incredible tools it created, dealing with a 1.63m Italian in Malmö who said quack and splash and few months later professionals call for the quackies on a banner. For Photoshop. The program I married 22 years ago, and surely this won't bring to a divorce with my best half.

It's just a small little woman in an isolated country who made a silly metaphor, I never meant to create such a trend... I feel like the Frodo of the ducks bearing the ring of splashes. I never thought it would go all the way to a banner...

D Fosse

Community Expert

As much as I love Kat's design, I still think a PS banner should stick to the trademark blue color scheme.

postrophe

Inspiring

Hi

I still think a PS banner should stick to the trademark blue color scheme.

Sorry buddy, but I digress. The corporate blue logo could be enhance in an explosion of "Rainbow" color, too. Even if it's subtle.

Pierre

Agent provocateur

D Fosse

Community Expert

postrophe wrote:
The corporate blue logo could be enhance in an explosion of "Rainbow" color, too. Even if it's subtle.

OK, fair enough.

But Stock rubs me the wrong way. That makes me think of annual reports and corporate project descriptions...there are plenty of good photographers here.

postrophe

Inspiring

Hi

Between or expending on these, see below, I wonder why someone don't try to do better for a header yet.

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html?sdid=KKQIL&ttsrccat=sem-ww-di-ps-brand&mv=search&s_kwcid=AL!3085!3!111672299058!e!!g!!photosop&ef_id=V15HwgAAAYcQypgZ:20160613054226:s

https://stock.adobe.com/?promoid=KTOGY&as_channel=adobe_com&as_source=profile_menu&as_campclass=brand&as_campaign=profile_menu&ssocc=1

There's a bunch of teachers around here, have you asked your students to create something ?

What is blowing /slowing the forum is people injecting images into the threads (instead of external links (and) the social links. My 2¢

Pierre

Agent Provocateur

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

What is blowing /slowing the forum is people injecting images into the threads (instead of external links (and) the social links.

Am I missing something? Aren't we supposed to post submissions to this thread? I don't use Behance.

Nancy O.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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