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Hi all,
Round one of the Forums Banner Challenge was awesome. Congratulations to the winner of the last round -- Trevor.Dennis​​, and well done to all of the other entries. Incase you missed it -- Check out the first Banner Challenge​!
It sounds like you're itching to get going again, so let's kick off Round two!
Purpose: Create a fresh 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 or so months and used in the Photoshop forums.
Use the above template design as a starting point for your designs which will help you position your imagery so it won’t be covered by the forum's CSS banner elements:
Image dimensions: 1150px ×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 we'll select the winner around February 2017. The chosen winner's design will be featured in 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
***Voting for Round 2 has CLOSED! Congratulations to Matt Cannon View the submissions​!***
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As most of you have already discussed --
Congratulations to mrcannon for winning round 2 of the Photoshop Forums Banner challenge!
Your design has now been added to the main page and will stay until the next challenge.
Thank you to each who entered and to those that voted. Some really awesome entries.
Regards
Pete
P.S. Would you like to have more of these banner challenges in the future? Would you like other forms of community challenges?
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Pierre,
The text is now removed and a book added in its place to symbolize. Hmm, I like the new better anyway, so thanks for the push.
Second entry:
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Gene​, you're on page two of the open book 
Benjamin Root wrote:
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I like that Benjamin. I'm not sure that the book needs to be central reference the entire banner, so much as more central to the gap on the right. Rule of thirds and all that. A great idea though, albeit a bit biblical.
Render Fibers is a good way to make pages. The illustration below was made from a flat image of the front of the book a couple of years ago. There is a glaring error with the perspective that shouts at me now, but we live and learn. The trick with fibers is to FT them width wise, reduce contrast, and sharpen a touch.
You're right, of course, Trevor! 
That's what I get for trying to post in a hurry.
I took the liberty to change entry #2 with the updated photo.
gener7 wrote:
Must be the "How not to Take Selfies" chapter.
Benjamin Root wrote:
Pierre,
The text is now removed and a book added in its place to symbolize. Hmm, I like the new better anyway, so thanks for the push.
Second entry:
Gene, you're on page two of the open book
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Must be the "How not to Take Selfies" chapter. 
Seeing as we are bringing Pierre's location into this, I'll add the thoughts of his near(ish) neighbour Freeman Patterson who has a relationship with my part of New Zealand. Freeman is into the screw your face up, scrunch your eyes, and look at a scene/image in terms of tones and colours and their interrelationships. While I am not a fan of the airy fairy approach to image making, I do feel that the way image elements work together is vital.
I mentioned during the first challenge that my approach to design is to jot down as many bullet points as are relevant to the message/story we are trying to put across, and kind of stir them up and shake them about — in reality that means using a Thesaurus on some of the words to see if variations start to fit together.
The visuals need to be simple with good contrast between our focal point and the background. There is no question that your eye goes straight to the dice in this banner, and that the three central components of our message/story 'Photoshop' Questions' & 'Answers' are strongest in the design, with the other three icons retaining interest without stealing focus. Even the gradient works to keep us in the frame. I thought later (I can never wait to 'put it out there) that I should have placed the vanishing point for the grid immediately above the dice.
I've decided not to try and finish my idea for the next banner as it was taking too much time, and I didn't feel like obsessing over it to the exclusion of everything else, so I'll share it with you. This started from TAing for Bert Monroy at MAX after which I made this digital portrait from a photograph of my wife Chris. So I thought I'd do a Usual Suspects poster using digital portraits of some of the forum regulars.
I've got Dave close to being happy with, but I messed up his teeth and need to start again there, and there is a button hole missing from his shirt.
I saw Benjamin as a wild mountain man with all that red hair and his beard, but there's a lot of work needed, and he doesn't have that 'essence of Benjamin' yet. I think I'm going to abandon the long fuzzy hair, and try for a a wild curly look.
Gene was attempted from that tiny blurred avatar, which turned into a disaster, so between Gene and myself, we decided to leave him out. I have half done portraits of Terri and myself, and I managed to find a decent B&W image of Dag. The whole thing was never intended as a serious banner entry, but it's all good practice, and I have learned a few new tricks on the way.
If you actually want to be included, and trust me with a full res image that you like, flick it to me and I'll add it to the list of work in progress. 🙂
LOL, Trevor!
Your idea reminds me of Mount Rushmore. Speaking of which, one of my brothers moved to South Dakota a few years ago. Rushmore was one of the first places he took a selfie after the move and made the mistake of posting it to Facebook. I immediately downloaded the image, and added his face to the stone. Promptly one of his friend told me to get a life 
Not because I don't love Nancy's wonderful mask idea, but I think we should have some actual pixels in the banner. With the current flood of high density display-related threads, I feel it would actually help explain the nature of a pixel-based raster image editor. Right up there in the heading.
Now, this image has been used before in the ACP forum, but it just lends itself very well to the format, with no highlights obscuring the text. I don't like to repeat myself, but I just can't find another image that is quite as suitable.
And it has Pierre's histogram mountains
Thanks, Pierre. I like simple, that's why I decided to put this one forward.
The histogram analogy only goes so far, though. This one would have very ugly clipping in both ends...
Also, one could argue that Photoshop isn't Adobe's primary photography app any more. That would be Lightroom. Photoshop is more a general raster editor, wherever those pixels come from. It's as much about painting and compositing, even 3D work, or prepress and production backend.
Still, the pixel is always at the heart of it.
Come on people. Only 21 votes cast as I type this, which might mean just eleven people have voted. I'll admit I was the awkward bugger who only cast a single vote, but our two votes appeared to count equally, and I had a clear winner in mind. You don't need to have participated to be eligible to vote.
To put the numbers into perspective, a little over a year ago Dave Merchant made the comment below in response to a question about the Adobe forum stats (metrics). Madison had just posted the stats which said these forums were getting 1.27 million daily views, and that the Photoshop, Lightroom and Premiere Pro forums got the bulk of those views. Dave explains how that surprisingly large number is reached, but even taking Dave's explanation into account, an awful lot of people use the Photoshop forum every day! So come on people. We want to see at least a 100,000 votes cast.
[EDIT] Dave's quote was not word wrapping and impossible to read, so I have swapped it out for a screen shot.
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