PSDTUTS Photoshop Wiki Launch Contest Results!
We’ve got the results of the PSDTUTS Photoshop Wiki Launch Contest. A few winners receive Amazon Gift certificates. We’ll also recap the growth of the Wiki due to the tremendous effort made during the contest. Thanks to everyone that participated for getting this new resource off the ground.
Congratulations to the Contest Winners!
The PSDTUTS Photoshop Wiki Launch Contest! has come to a close. We have the three US$100 Amazon gift voucher winners to announce. The winners of the PSDTUTS Photoshop Wiki Launch Contest are:
Dozens of other wiki users have contributed a great deal as well. Thank you to everyone who has helped make the PSDTUTS Wiki useful already. We’ve got a ways to go before we overtake Wikipedia but we’re off to a good start. If the winners could update their wiki profiles with their emails, then we will contact you to distribute the prizes, and congratulations!
PSDTUTS Photoshop Wiki Growth Stats
Since the PSDTUTS Photoshop Wiki launched last week, it has received:
- Over 29,000 page views
- Over 2,200 edits
- Over 350 new users
- Over 130 file uploads
Not bad, eh?
Our fast-growing wiki now has over 100 articles and counting, including:
- A Photoshop FAQ
- A list of Photoshop videos
- A list of Photoshop websites
- A beginner’s guide to Photoshop
- A list of Photoshop keyboard shortcuts
- A list of Photoshop designers
The Future of The PSDTUTS Photoshop Wiki
We’re super excited about this new PSDTUTS Photoshop Wiki and welcome the community to keep using and growing this resource. We’ll be working to integrate the content on the Wiki into the tutorial posts on the site. Also, we’ll periodically be putting updates on the site, as the wiki grows, and new killer resources are added.
New Sponsors
We’re didn’t have additional Sponsors for this contest, as it’s a short contest focused on a new wiki for the PSDTUTS site, though we are looking for Sponsors for the next contest. We’ve got a graphic design contest coming up soon.
If you would like to sponsor the next PSDTUTS contest then let us know. We’ll consider adding you to the list. Let us know what you have to offer as a prize to members of PSDTUTS. Think of things that digital artists or designers could utilize. Use our Contact Form to let us know.
We’re Changing Our Name - Meet Envato
Some of the more observant of you may have noticed that starting yesterday some little “Envato Network” widgets began appearing in the top right of both this site and our other blogs and marketplaces. What is Envato? Well it’s our new name!
A lot has happened since this company formed two years ago and as a team we’ve grown a lot and certainly learned a lot. When we came to trademark our company name recently, it turned out that the name Eden was pretty difficult to win a trademark for. About a dozen companies blocked our application in Australia alone! Sheesh Kebab!
While I’m a bit sad to see Eden go, I’m happy to announce that as of today we are rebranding the business under a new name: Envato.
Being an invented word, Envato is a lot easier to trademark and we hope to put our stamp firmly on the new name in the years to come! As far as I know it doesn’t mean anything in any non-English languages (though I’ve heard it’s akin to the Mexican Spanish slang for dude), but I’d love to hear if it does have any other translations that we’ve missed, especially if they are funny!
A Creative Eco-System
With a change like this, we thought it would be a good time to introduce a new feature to our sites in the form of a little site-switching widget that is now appearing on all our major sites in the top right. The site switcher not only allows users to flick between sites, but also ensures that our audiences are aware of all the Envato sites.
As you’ll begin to see by flicking through the 10 or so sites already listed, our mission here at Envato is to build a creative eco-system of sites and services to benefit people like you and me. This year we’ve already launched four sites, with another half-dozen penciled in to go up before 2009. Some of those are more in our marketplace and TUTS lines, but we also have a couple of brand new ideas to launch too.
It’s a pretty exciting time for our little company which started out in my living room not so long ago. These days we’re still mostly working in living rooms, just more of them!
A Big Thank You!
And since it’s not often that I get to post on every single one of our sites together, I thought on behalf of the whole team, I’d say thank you to all of you readers, users, members, buyers and authors who have supported us and helped us grow!
So Thank You All, and Viva Envato!
