Design forum

To celebrate the October release of Nick Hornby’s next novel ‘Slam’, a nationwide competition has been launched for 13-25 year olds to design a poster responding to the brief Who’s Your Hero? You can enter the Slam ‘bedroom icon’ poster design challenge, by submitting an artistic response to your hero or heroine, be it a sex symbol, pop idol, fashion icon, rock god, sports hero, movie legend, thinker, leader or rebel. Winning entries form an online and real-world exhibition and the winning entry is…

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Hi guys
Just wanted to let you all know about this exciting competition that’s running at the moment – the Europrix Top Talent Award. It’s a great opportunity to showcase your talents to international experts in the design industry and also win some fantastic prizes at the same time!
Basically it is a contest for all areas of multimedia and design where projects are assessed by an international jury of people who are at the top of their field. It is an ideal platform for networking and acquiring business…

Hey I was wondering if any one could help me with masking. I know this is a new-bee question. I’m working with fireworks and I’m simply trying to have a background of a picture fill behind a word only showing the background within each letter of the word.

ex: A image of the word „vacation“ with a picture of the beach in the background but only showing the portions of the beach picture in which the word vacation is over.

I know I have to use the masking tool but I just cant quite get it any help would…