The winners of the Psdtuts+ First Tutorial Writing Contest are in. The winning entries stand out as both remarkable designs and well written tutorials. Let's check out who walked away with the prizes. Great job to everyone who participated! We had quite a few participants for such a short contest.
The Psdtuts+ First Tutorial Writing Contest Results
Congratulations to the winners and we appreciate all the participation. We'll have the winning tutorials posted up on the site soon, and some of the others as well. Great job to everybody, as it was a close contest. We'll be contacting the winners to distribute their prizes early next week.
First Place Winner
Congratulations to ViniMan! The first place winner receives USD$400 in cash and a 1 year Psdtuts+ Plus membership. We'll see the tutorial published on the site shortly. He has published one tutorial on the site before Create a Mobile Phone Ad Design. This new winning tutorial is called Photo-Manipulating An Image Into A Realistic Night Scene. It's a great photo-manipulation tutorial and we'll see it on the site soon.

Tutorial Author: ViniMan, Winning Tutorial: Photo-Manipulating An Image Into A Realistic Night Scene
Second Place Winner
Congratulations to Michelle Regan! The second place winner receives USD$300 in cash and a 1 year Psdtuts+ Plus membership. We'll see the tutorial published on the site shortly and it's her first time publishing here. Her tutorial shows details on how to make cut citrus fruit from scratch and compose them into a design. The winning tutorial is titled Create a Citrus Fruit Design From Scratch in Photoshop

Tutorial Author: Michelle Regan, Winning Tutorial: Create a Citrus Fruit Design From Scratch in Photoshop
Third Place Winner
Congratulations to Gustavo Caetano Jacinto! The third place winner receives USD$200 in cash. We'll see the winning tutorial published on the site shortly. The winning tutorial is called Create a Vector Style Illustration in Photoshop and this will be Gustavo's first time publishing on the site.

Tutorial Author: Gustavo Caetano Jacinto, Winning Tutorial: Create a Vector Style Illustration in Photoshop
Participants
We appreciate everyone that participated. As usual it was a really close decision. We'll be contacting some of these tutorial authors to discuss publication on the site.
Tutorial Author: Jeffrey M Stout

Tutorial Author: Brad Ballard
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