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Did you know that the NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals) and Layers Magazine are on Twitter now? Do you Twitter? Well if you do, then this is your chance for worldwide fame…sort of.
Anyway, if you follow either NAPP News or Layers Magazine on Twitter, this is your chance to shine with this new design contest. The challenge is to design or re-design your Twitter home page. Now, I know that there limited features when it come to customizing your home page, but that’s where the real creativity comes in. Once you have completed a new page then simply post a link to it in the comments section of this blog post. The deadline for this little project is July 29, so have fun.

What will you win?
The first place winner will receive a copy of Scott Kelby’s Photoshop CS3 for Digital Photographers training DVD and a copy of Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature by Matt Kloskowski.

Second Place will receive a copy of Illustrator Down & Dirty Tricks by Corey Barker, as well as the Illustrator Manifesto booklet and the Photoshop CS3 Hot Tips booklet.

Third Place will get one year subscription to Layers Magazine and the Photoshop CS3 Hot Tips booklet.

So get to it and have fun Twittering!!!

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59 Comments

  1. Jenni said on — July 22, 2008 @ 9:50 am

    Here is mine: http://twitter.com/innej

  2. Firgs said on — July 22, 2008 @ 10:28 am

    If it’s ok with everyone, I would like to submit my page for the contest. But I will understand if the judges decide to veto my entry.

    http://twitter.com/Firgs

    Thanks! :)

  3. Dorothy Yamamoto said on — July 22, 2008 @ 10:41 am

    twitter.com/dyamamoto

    Nothing fancy, but for my icon I incorporated my dragon monogram (hope you can see the dy initials based on ITC Simran typeface, the d is the body of the dragon, etc.). And the radial BG shape transformed in Photoshop and made into a custom shape. I had to tweak the sizing and orientation of the gif file because of the fixed twitter interface.

    It’s good to see Layers, PhotoshopUser in this interesting space of Twitter.

  4. Robert said on — July 22, 2008 @ 12:26 pm

    Here we go – http://twitter.com/blackmoondev

  5. Melissa said on — July 22, 2008 @ 1:06 pm

    http://www.twitter.com/spxds

  6. Rogie King said on — July 22, 2008 @ 1:42 pm

    Here’s mine! http://twitter.com/rogieking

  7. Dorothy Yamamoto said on — July 22, 2008 @ 1:45 pm

    doh! here’s a clickable link:

    http://twitter.com/dyamamoto

  8. Margret said on — July 22, 2008 @ 1:52 pm

    https://twitter.com/LightBayStudio

  9. Scott said on — July 22, 2008 @ 2:23 pm

    http://www.twitter.com/scottwyden

    WOOT

  10. Gareth V Jones said on — July 22, 2008 @ 2:50 pm

    http://twitter.com/garethvjones

  11. Bob Marchman said on — July 22, 2008 @ 10:12 pm

    http://twitter.com/bobmarchman

  12. Busy blogger - Yet another Blog » Twitter backgrounds Pingback on — July 22, 2008 @ 10:52 pm

    [...] morning as I was reading my usual blog feeds I came across this competition for a twitter profile design. I’ve been having a go but my current attempt is not very up to [...]

  13. suz said on — July 22, 2008 @ 10:55 pm

    Here’s mine:
    http://twitter.com/suz00

  14. Shanna Korby said on — July 22, 2008 @ 11:34 pm

    Here you go.

  15. Shanna Korby said on — July 22, 2008 @ 11:35 pm

    http://twitter.com/smkorby Here is the link.

  16. Rick Wolff said on — July 23, 2008 @ 9:46 am

    Try this: http://twitter.com/rickwolff

  17. PaulsenCountry said on — July 23, 2008 @ 9:54 am

    Authentic

  18. PaulsenCountry said on — July 23, 2008 @ 9:55 am

    http://twitter.com/paulsencountry

  19. Tatiana said on — July 23, 2008 @ 4:59 pm

    http://twitter.com/mocinha

  20. Karl said on — July 24, 2008 @ 2:57 pm

    http://twitter.com/karlman01

  21. Krazy E said on — July 24, 2008 @ 3:38 pm

    Count me in…
    http://twitter.com/krazye

  22. Jonathan said on — July 24, 2008 @ 3:43 pm

    http://twitter.com/SuperLame
    Hope I win! 3rd place, actually. Whoo!

  23. Brenda said on — July 24, 2008 @ 4:11 pm

    http://twitter.com/bcterp2

  24. Herne said on — July 24, 2008 @ 8:06 pm

    http://twitter.com/Herne
    For your amusement…

  25. Jeanette said on — July 25, 2008 @ 12:27 am

    Here’s mine

  26. Jeanette said on — July 25, 2008 @ 12:27 am

    I guess it helps to post the link, eh?
    http://twitter.com/scrapgeek

  27. rbtroj said on — July 25, 2008 @ 11:23 am

    Possible problem – Twitter is choking on custom designs (among other things right now). I’m alternately missing my profile pic and page background on random loadings of the page. I know of many other users who are experiencing the same problem.

  28. philbert said on — July 25, 2008 @ 11:24 am

    http://twitter.com/mnic

  29. Ralphie said on — July 25, 2008 @ 11:27 am

    hmm … saw my comment on your page, but now it’s gone. Are you moderating comments, or should they appear as they’re added?

  30. Christopher Truman said on — July 25, 2008 @ 11:27 am

    http://twitter.com/chick_comedy

  31. Ralphie said on — July 25, 2008 @ 11:28 am

    well – sorry if this gets double-posted … take 2

    http://twitter.com/depot1503

    http://twitter.com/account/profile_image/depot1503

  32. philbert said on — July 25, 2008 @ 11:31 am

    comments seem to be broken – i see a duplicate comment warning, however my comment does not appear on page.

    trying again: http://twitter.com/mnic

  33. philbert said on — July 25, 2008 @ 11:32 am

    sorry – i’m too impatient apparently

  34. philbert said on — July 25, 2008 @ 11:35 am

    ah – seems your blog engine may have an overzealous spam filter. My officemate and I are both trying to post our twitter pages, from our desks, however we appear to the outside world to be one IP address. So, when he posts a comment, mine seem to disappear, and when I post my comment, his disappears. Weird!

  35. Cindi said on — July 25, 2008 @ 11:36 am

    My entry!
    http://twitter.com/deziner

  36. ethnicomm said on — July 25, 2008 @ 11:37 am

    http://twitter.com/ethnicomm

  37. Ralphie said on — July 25, 2008 @ 11:55 am

    okay – well sorry to everyone – apparently my coworker and I cannot post comments at the same time since our office has a single visible outbound IP address. Kinda sucks but whatever. In any case, so we don’t completely F up the comments here, I am going to post his twitter profile as well. Again, sorry to anyone annoyed by this problem.

    His link:
    http://twitter.com/mnic

  38. Jeremiah Hester said on — July 25, 2008 @ 12:13 pm

    http://twitter.com/pixelnated

  39. Leigh Duncan-Durst said on — July 25, 2008 @ 12:16 pm

    Nothin’ fancy – just simple stuff… http://twitter.com/livepath

  40. IntoFotos.com said on — July 26, 2008 @ 8:25 am

    http://twitter.com/intofotos

  41. LivingFree said on — July 26, 2008 @ 8:27 am

    http://twitter/livingfree

  42. IntoFotos.com said on — July 26, 2008 @ 8:28 am

    http://twitter/intofotos

  43. Danl said on — July 26, 2008 @ 11:24 am

    I really hope to win!!

    http://twitter.com/wijoo

  44. Paulo Jordao Photography said on — July 27, 2008 @ 2:30 am

    Here is my Twitter page:
    http://twitter.com/paulopics1
    If you are going to follow me… let me know that you are from this site, so I will give you more attention. OK?
    Paulo Jordao

  45. Inferno Armadillo said on — July 27, 2008 @ 2:06 pm

    Here by ours: Inferno Armadillo’s Twitter page

  46. Herne said on — July 28, 2008 @ 8:26 am

    For your amusement…

    http://twitter.com/Herne

  47. Pablo_aSH said on — July 28, 2008 @ 8:41 am

    http://twitter.com/Pablo_aSH

    woot!

  48. JJ said on — July 28, 2008 @ 9:58 am

    Here is mine. How fun! I like it so much better customized

  49. JJ said on — July 28, 2008 @ 9:59 am

    Ooops here is the URL…

    http://twitter.com/jjdesigns

  50. A.J. said on — July 28, 2008 @ 12:29 pm

    Here is my twitter contest submission: http://www.twitter.com/aj_wood

  51. VFXdesigner said on — July 28, 2008 @ 5:40 pm

    Hi there, here is my twitter contest entry. Good luck to everybody.

    http://twitter.com/vfxdesigner

  52. VFXdesigner said on — July 28, 2008 @ 5:56 pm

    Hi there! Here is my twitter contest entry. Good luck to everybody!

    http://twitter.com/vfxdesigner

  53. Yvonne Adams said on — July 28, 2008 @ 9:57 pm

    Here it is, until I change it again …

    http://twitter.com/yvonneadams

  54. Inferno Armadillo said on — July 29, 2008 @ 8:52 am

    Ha! I just noticed I wrote “Here by ours” instead of “Here be ours.” My attempt to intentionally add poor grammar backfired due to my unintentionally poor grammar.
    :-D

  55. Kate said on — July 29, 2008 @ 10:52 pm

    FWIW… http://twitter.com/geekmum

  56. ptamaro said on — July 31, 2008 @ 6:09 pm

    http://twitter.com/ptamaro

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