At right: Jim Carey as a Zombie from an earlier photoshop contest courtesy of Stegor.

The Photoshop community, www.PhotoChopz.com, has announced the launch of new weekly and monthly design contests and a new Photoshop design gallery to showcase member designs and “chopz” - humorous and spoof edits of photographs.

Photoshop artists with a flair for the satirical can now win awards for their humorous photo edits, or “chopz,” thanks to a newly-launched series of weekly and monthly themed design contests from the Photoshop community, PhotoChopz.com. The new contests aim to reward already active members and designers for their spoof, sarcastic, and humorous alterations to chosen monthly photos or themes where designers can choose their own photos.
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The “Speak New Words” Music Video Contest is available to U.S. high school and college students who are between the ages of 14-22. You must be a U.S. citizen and enrolled in high school or college in the United States. You must create an audio-visual video, no shorter than one minute and no longer than three and one-half minutes, in which you perform original (created by you) words (lyrics - spoken or sung) that will inspire your generation to greatness.

There are TWO $5,000 Grand Prizes, one for each category. Entrants must have Internet access and be a registered member with a valid YouTube account in order to compete in the Contest. Entries must be uploaded to YouTube no later than 11:59 PM EST on 9 September 2007. Visit the site for details.

The BBC News is offering various themes and deadlines in their Photographer of the Year 2007 contest. They are looking for attention-grabbing photos where the photographer interprets the themes as widely as possible.

The current theme is “blue,” and its deadline is 8 July 2007. You may enter up to three images per category. Following the closing date for each theme the 12 best pictures will be selected by the BBC picture desk and displayed in a picture gallery a week later. You will then have 48 hours in which to vote for your favourite.

The two photos that get the most votes will go forward to the final and one of you will be awarded the title of BBC News website Photographer of the Year 2007. Visit the site for details.

It appears that some illustrators have become irked over the illustration contest being held by a nonprofit German literature magazine. Why, I don’t know, as I don’t want to read posts written by cranky people.

Nonetheless, the illustration contest has some entries now with some favorable response by illustrators who are starting out and who want their illustrations to receive some public coverage. The contest also now has its own site, so go visit and try to be nice.

The Miami Herald’s ‘Great Cartoonist Search’ Contest (”Contest”) is open to individual cartoonists or teams of two (2) cartoonists who are U.S. residents. Contestants must be 18 or older. This Contest is sponsored by The Miami Herald Media Company, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami FL 33132-1693 (”Sponsor”). Employees of MHMC, The McClatchy Company, or their subsidiaries and affiliates, and their immediate families, are not eligible to enter.

Since all the rules are copyrighted (!), I’ll just send you to the contest page. Deadline 11:59 EDT on 24 July 2007.

The 123RF Flaunt It! Design Competition is a contest for the creative to showcase their artistic works and compete in 123RF’s friendly and supportive community. Anyone can join. Designs submitted must incorporate images from 123RF.com. This contest gives you the opportunity to express your creativity and win some fantastic prizes at the same time. Grand prize is 15″ 2.2 GHz Apple MacBook Pro (RRP. $1999).

Deadlines begin with round 1 period ending 15 July 2007. Visit the site for details.