Check out this amazing competition for Photoshop users! You get to create your own film poster for the latest Ricky Gervais movies, ‘The Invention of Lying’. Use the provided set of images to create a poster  for the film and you could win yourself a signed script and film prop! Check out all the details below. The deadline is the 7th February, so get your skates on and get designing!!! Good luck…

PRESS RELEASE:
INVENT A FILM POSTER - AND WIN A RICKY GERVAIS SIGNED FILM PROP

The Invention of Lying, out on Blu-ray & DVD on 1st Feb, is a hilarious comedy that takes place in an alternative reality in which lying does not exist. Everyone, even politicians and advertisers, speaks the truth (and nothing but the truth). Ricky Gervais plays screenwriter Mark Bellison, who is tasked with writing a film about the 1300s entitled Black Plague. Unfortunately for him, that’s a century where “not much happened”, but that’s all about to change as he discovers lying and finds that dishonesty has its rewards.

Now, Ricky Gervais needs YOUR help to create a mind boggling poster to help him position the film as a ground breaking (and quite possible tongue in cheek) piece of cinema. You can start from scratch if you wish, or use some film artwork and stills* kindly supplied by Universal Pictures to create a unique poster and submit it to our judge…. none other than Ricky Gervais himself!

To give you a bit of inspiration we’ve even managed to get our hands on the Black Plague opening credits. It goes a little something like this:

‘On the very first day of the fourteenth century, a momentous occasion occurred. It began as a day much like any other. The sun rose, the people awoke, workers began to work, babies began to cry. But all of that was interrupted when….’

As if getting your masterpiece in front of Ricky Gervais wasn’t reward enough, we’ve also got our hands on two props from the film - a Black Plague ‘writer’ chair back and a copy of the Black Plague film script - both of which we’ll get signed by the film’s star, writer and director.

So what are you waiting for… take your seat, open the stills and create a poster to wow the world! Click this link to download the start images.

Email your entries to IOLcomp@imagine-publishing.co.uk by 7 February 2010. Please ensure email entries are no larger than 2MB and please include all of your contact details.

Advanced Photoshop, in association with iStockphoto.com, is offering four digital artists the chance to see their work on the cover of the magazine, as well as win some great prizes.

iStockphoto.com has supplied ten fantastic images, which can be downloaded from www.istockphoto.com/createacover. You’ll need to log in to an iStockphoto.com account to get the images, but don’t worry if you don’t have one as registration is free and easy.

Artists must use at least one of these images and Photoshop to design a piece of artwork worthy of being on the cover of issue 65 of Advanced Photoshop (December/January).

There will be four winners, with four collectable covers available, who will each receive £500 cash and £500 of iStockphoto.com credits.

Full details can be found at www.advancedphotoshop.co.uk/competitions_istockphoto.php and the closing date for entries is 23 November 2009.