Complete: Design the Photoshop Forums Banner Challenge 2

[Pete.Green]

***Voting for Round 2 has CLOSED! Congratulations to Matt Cannon View the submissions​!***

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​!***

[Nancy OShea]

Does JIVE limit the number of times a person can vote?

[Benjamin Root]

Good point. IIRC, only one vote. I'm going to do a bit of testing.

Edit: After some testing

• You are limited to 10 poll choices
• You can vote only once
• You can upload multiple images to each poll choice

So Jive polls may not be a good option unless the banners are narrowed to 10 picks first, and one vote is adequate. Sounds like Pete's current set up is the best option.

[davescm]

Bumping up to page 1 to keep voting visible.

Voting details in post 1 and post 47 of this thread.

Dave

[Pete.Green]

MadisonMLeupp​ may know more of the specifics around Jive polls.

[MadisonLeupp]

Benjamin covered it perfectly!

[miriam-z]

Here is my first design for the second round...hoping to squeeze in a few more before the end of the submissions.

I decided to go with an organic abstract pattern, with bright color.

Best wishes,

Miriam

[miriam-z]

Design submission 2:

Best wishes,

Miriam

[miriam-z]

Design submission 3:

[mrcannon]

I went for a clean, simple iconic look for my entry. I wanted to reimagine the Photoshop logo as a realistic boxed product filled with helpful information (representing the forum) inside. I used the PS loading screen as the information on the side of the box. I also incorporated Adobe branding as well to leverage the brand itself and bring more color to the banner.

[Pete.Green]

Hi all,

Just a heads up that I'm soon starting the voting process (next day or two), so if anybody is working on any entries they'd like added to be voted for the next Photoshop Forums banner, now would be the time to submit!

More info soon.

Regards

PG

[Pete.Green]

Hi all,

I want to thank all of you for putting in the time to design another forums banner. Hope you're enjoying these challenges.

It is now time to vote on a favorite.

Let's vote on the winning design together!

1. Step 1: Take a look at the submissions: PS Forum Banner Challenge - Phase 2
2. Step 2: Vote!* (choose your favorite 2 submissions)

             *Voting ends March 1st, 2017

Great job with all of the entries, looking forward to seeing who is chosen!

Regards

Pete

[Trevor.Dennis]

Pete.Green  wrote

Let's vote on the winning design together!

1. Step 1: Take a look at the submissions: PS Forum Banner Challenge - Phase 2
2. Step 2: Vote!* (choose your favorite 2 submissions)

             *Voting ends March 1st, 2017

Great job with all of the entries, looking forward to seeing who is chosen!

Regards

Pete

If we quote Pete's post with the links when we bump the thread, that will keep the links near the Latest Post.   46 votes cast as I type this, and it's getting interesting now with #1 and #9 equal with ten votes each, so keep those votes coming.   The entries  and results so far

[gary_sc]

Interesting.

I normally get a lot of emails from the ACP list, but this thread ONLY came to me today with Madison's comment: "Benjamin covered it perfectly!"

I had not clue what she was talking about so I looked and found all of this discussion on banners that completely passed by me.

No clue as to why I received no emails on this subject.

Gary

[Benjamin Root]

Pete.Green  wrote

Hi all,

I want to thank all of you for putting in the time to design another forums banner. Hope you're enjoying these challenges.

It is now time to vote on a favorite.

Let's vote on the winning design together!

1. Step 1: Take a look at the submissions: PS Forum Banner Challenge - Phase 2
2. Step 2: Vote!* (choose your favorite 2 submissions)

             *Voting ends March 1st, 2017

Great job with all of the entries, looking forward to seeing who is chosen!

Regards

Pete

[Benjamin Root]

Congratulations to Matt Cannon! Looks like you are the winner of round 2!

[mrcannon]

That's awesome! Thanks Benjamin! I’m honored and can't wait to see the design on the forum

[davescm]

Well done and congratulations mrcannon   . Look forward to seeing it at the top!

Dave  

[mrcannon]

Thanks Dave!! Appreciate it

[Nancy OShea]

Congratulations Matt, well done!

Nancy

[D Fosse]

Voting? I don't know...look where that got us on November 8...we might end up with a banner that basically says don't even try to enter here...and we all huddle up, exiled, in the Elements forum, for four years...

[Pete.Green · Accepted solution]

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?

[gary_sc]

Sure Pete, will be glad to try (especially if I learn about the contest before it is over! ;>))

Gary

[Benjamin Root]

Yes! If you don't mind hosting the banner contests, I'd love to see a round three in the future!

[davescm]

Yes - do a round three in the future.

For another friendly challenge how about something in the lines of Steve Caplin's (How to Cheat in Photoshop) Friday challenges - where he posts an image with a challenge - the last was drain the water from a Venice canal, previous week a courtyard with the challenge to add a pool.  Some results are off the wall.

Dave