Who’s going to be King of the Hill this summer?

With so many great movies being released this summer, no-one here at Play With Pictures HQ can agree which one is going to come out on top.

We thought we’d have a bit of fun and try to settle the argument by seeing what our community members thought,... and of course give away an iPod while we’re at it!

So go on, mash up a few characters from different movies, or create your own movie poster. Tell us which movie you’re most looking forward to and put yourself in the running to win an 8G iPod Nano.

Post your entries to our fan page on Facebook here, or stick ‘em up on the Flickr page here.

If you don’t already have a copy of Play With Pictures you can download a free trial here.

First Prize is an Apple iPod Nano 8G, second and third places will each win a copy of Play With Pictures (SRP $40)

The draw will take place on the 12^th of June, so get your entries in now.

Did your image make it into the top 10?

 

There have been so many great pictures coming out of the Play With Pictures community sites that we have decided to start a monthly post of our top 10 favourites images. Entries are judged on creativity, best use of the programs features and quality of the finished image. We only select from our community members on our community pages cause we love you guys!

So if you would like to have one of your images considered for the monthly top 10, upload them to either the Facebook group or the Flickr Group and I’ll definitely consider them for inclusion in next month’s top 10!

Here are this month's top 10 in reverse order:

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8.

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5.

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3.

2.

1.

So congratulations to Dianne Godwin for her brilliant creation. Her vote came out top on everyone in the office's list so no disputing this one! You can see the image in the Facebook group here.

Now you can do a whole lot more with Play With Pictures – Vertus’ amazing image creator and compositing tool. It has even more cool features and still remains brilliantly simple and easy to use – doing difficult things impressively with the minimum of fuss.

Listening: We’ve asked our community what extra features they’d like and built the best of the suggestions:

• Retouch object colors for more authentic compositions

• Select multiple objects for faster workflow

• New thought bubbles and more speech bubbles for greater creative freedom

• Quick object editing features

• Restore deleted objects

• New image loading features

• Now available in German and Japanese

These come alongside your old favourites such as:

• The most effective and simple extraction technology ever

• Amazing composition features

• In-image object editing – no complex layering formats

• Drag and drop a picture from anywhere into the application

• Here’s your chance to download Play With Pictures on a 15 day free trial:

Click here to download Play With Pictures

If you’ve already got a copy of Play With Pictures, don’t stress! It will automatically update itself with the new features and won’t cost you anything extra!

Already Play With Pictures is attracting a lot of attention. Recently it was awarded 4.5 stars out of 5 on download.com. ranking it 30th by Editor’s Choice out of 3,400 titles. Unheard of for a first release. But don’t take our word for it check out our active community and see what they have created – there are already over 400 members on our Facebook site.

Links to our community pages:

Facebook Group

Flickr Group

For a summary of what people have been saying, check out our buzz page

And check out our gallery for our favourite fan creations

Just a reminder that the competition to win an iPhone ends this Sunday at 0h00 GMT so hurry and enter now!

If you already have a copy of Play With Pictures, all you have to do to enter is recommend a friend to try it out and if they download it and try it, both of you could win a spanking new iPhone. Easy as that! Go here to start recommending.

If you simply download and try the product, you will be automatically entered into the draw to win an iPhone as well. Remember to recommend it to your friends after you have downloaded to increase your chances of winning. Go here to download.

Or go here to read more about the competition.

And to answer some of your concerns:

• You can enter from anywhere in the world

• You do not have to buy Play With Pictures to enter, just download the trial and try it out

• You can enter as many times as you like

• You can enter as many friends as you like to increase your chances of winning

• There is a French, German and Japanese version coming out soon which we can send to you when it is ready, if you ask us to.

You can see her winning image here.

She was also so excited about winning the Bamboo tablet, that she wrote a post about it here.

So as of now, the competition to give away two iPhones is live.

The competition will work the same as before: recommend some friends and if they download Play With Pictures, you will both be entered into the draw to each with your own iPhone! The competition will run for two weeks and will end at midnight GMT on Sunday 29^th March.

Click here to go to the competition page to enter.

And you’ve probably figured this out already but in case you haven’t: the more friends you recommend, the more chance you have of winning an iPhone if one of them is drawn, so make sure you tell ALL your friends when you enter the competition.

To read about our winner from week two of the competition, click here.

To read about our winner from week one of the competition, click here.

So as of now, the competition to give away two iPhones is live.

The competition will work the same as before: recommend some friends and if they download Play With Pictures, you will both be entered into the draw to each with your own iPhone! The competition will run for two weeks and will end at midnight GMT on Sunday 29^th March.

Click here to go to the competition page to enter.

And you’ve probably figured this out already but in case you haven’t: the more friends you recommend, the more chance you have of winning an iPhone if one of them is drawn, so make sure you tell ALL your friends when you enter the competition.

To read about our winner from week two of the competition, click here.

To read about our winner from week one of the competition, click here.

Well, who am I to argue with the boss?!

So starting sometime this afternoon (subscribe to the blog if you want to know when exactly) we will launch the competition to give away two unlocked iPhones. The competition will work the same as before: recommend some friends and if they download Play With Pictures, you will both be entered into the draw to each with your own iPhone! The competition will run for two weeks and will end at midnight GMT on Sunday 29^th March.

The smarter ones amongst you will have figured out that the more friends you recommend, the more chance you have of winning the iPhone if one of them is drawn, so keep your ear to the ground (or subscribe to the blog) to find out exactly when this competition is going to launch today and then tell ALL your friends!

Because its Red Nose Day, we decided to have some red nosed themed fun in the office by using Play With Pictures to super-impose red noses on some unlikely volunteers! Enjoy and share!

Remember to check out www.rednoseday.com and donate generously.

Bill Gates

Gordon Brown

Christiano Ronaldo

George Bush

Daleks

Magneto

Jack Bauer

Martin Johnson

Sylar

Maggie Thatcher

We're into week three of our competition and so far, we have given away an eStarling Digital Photo frame and a Sony Cybershot digital camera.

This week we are giving away the uber-cool Wacom Bamboo Graphics Tablet, which as you can see from the picture above has already arrived in our office, ready to be shipped to a winner at the end of the week! All you have to do this week is upload a Play With Pictures creation to the Facebook Group and we will select a winner from there. The winner is not judged on artistic brilliance or anything like that, we are simply picking a random winner from the pictures uploaded to the group.

Remember, you have to upload a Play With Pictures creation to win so if you haven't done so already, download Play With Pictures here.

Create >> upload >> Win! Easy as that!