If you’re not taken by the standard black or white case options for the iPhone 4/4S, you can personalise them with a photo of your choice.

Bonusprint’s new dye-sub printing service puts any photo onto the surface of a case and can be done in less than five minutes.

Turnarond time once ordered is five working days, and cases cost £16.99 each ($27.00US approx, excludes p&p). Give it a try through the Bonusprint website.

Microstock provider Fotolia has unveiled the top three selling stock photos of 2011, generating six-figure incomes and resulting in over 10,000 downloads.

“The best photographers and artists in the world upload their images to Fotolia because they know we successfully market to international buyers around the globe,” says CEO Oleg Tscheltzoff. “Whoever is looking for affordable stock imagery can find millions of photos, vectors and videos in high quality at affordable prices on Fotolia.”

Ordered by the number of downloads, these images can range from prices of £0.63 to £18.90 per picture. This size of image determines this.

And in order of most downloads…

Purchase this image by Yuri Arcurs from Fotolia

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Advanced Photoshop 92 is on sale from today via ImagineShop or in stores

Main features

Striking type effects
Learn how to create our stunning cover image

Photoshop to WordPress
The basics of design and slicing

Self-publishing
Create your own art book

20 ways to make money with Photoshop
Earn cash from your design skills

Also inside…

Designers reveal their 2012 resolutions
Studio profile: Raw
Reader’s Gallery
The Raster Group’s 50th Chapter
Interview: Tim McDonagh
Workshop: Master pro compositing
Tool focus: The Transform options
Workshop: Paint sci-fi characters
Trend focus: Vinyl toys
Workshop: Creative retouching
Workshop: Decorative vexel art
Product, app and book reviews
Top 10… Scanners

Advanced Photoshop comes with a free disc, packed with essential resources:
Tutorial project files
75 minutes of pro video tuition
20 landscape photos
180 brushes
Textures
Steampunk photo pack
WordPress theme worth $39US
Wallpapers
Inspirational images from the online gallery
Links to our social networks

Photographers and digital artists can look forward to the upcoming plug-in release from Alien Skin. New features in the soon-to-arrive Exposure 4 include Group Presets for applying changes to multiple sliders at once.

Another great feature that will benefit artists is a new texture simulation process that, instead of an artificial texture overlay, uses high-resolution photos.

As well as a redesign that means the plug-in is easier to use and understand, Exposure 4 plans to be much faster on Mac and Windows platforms.

For more information on this new product and a preview of effects and features, check out Alien Skin’s official blog.

We peak into the creative portfolio of BillyBonkers, a dynamic duo working in Norway. Christine Aas and Dag Standal paired up in the late ’90s to combine their knowledge of photography and retouching. After a succesful year of self-promotion and taking on assignments in London, they packed up their bags and crossed the continent. Dag takes pleasure in telling us more of the BillyBonkers’s Photoshop style.

How do you create a strong HDR imaging effect that gives your artwork so much detail?
By breaking down the image into several pieces we get tremendous control over the tonal range. It all starts with photographing the background, fine tuning the different pieces and pasting them together in Photoshop. Always using a wide range of exposures. Then we photograph the models (or objects) in the studio with the best available lighting equipment, mainly Broncolor. Shooting on a Hasselblad H4D-50 we control the contrast in order to have the best conditions to take it a step further in Photoshop. After all the images have been shoot the time comes to put it all together into one image, often containing 30-50 layers.

Why is such a large portion of your portfolio focused on sports?
An interest for sport photography came to us when a couple of years ago we helped our local football club. We made individual pictures of all the players. Discovering that the lighting equipment could freeze movements down to 1/7000 of a sec. made us quite intrigued. Having the pictures in our portfolio recruited more assignments for other sports-related customers.

Any tips on working successfully as a freelancer?
In order to make it as a freelancer I think you have to develop a distinct style and keep improving and developing it all the time. Having your work displayed at different societies like Behance Network, Flickr, Facebook, or One Eyeland, is a good idea. Art buyers constantly need to be reminded of your ability.

How long do you spend in Photoshop at any given time, and why?
We do all of the retouching ourselves. It can take from 1 day to several days when retouching an image to perfection. Sometimes we send the images to Clipping Images to have them masked, but it always takes a few hours to fine-tune a mask to seamlessly make it blend into an image.

How do you see your style evolving through 2012?
It is difficult to guess how the style of BillyBonkers will evolve throughout the year. We will keep improving both the skills in photography and Photoshop by exploring the great work produced by other artist, tutorials and workshops.

The new version of Photoshop Lightroom has been released as a beta preview for free download from Adobe Labs. Expect to see improved features for editing shadows and highlights, more support for DSLR video and the options to make photobooks directly within the software.

Send Adobe your thoughts on the new software via the community feedback site. For more information on the release, check out the official Adobe news feed.

Many of you digital creatives, photo editors and photographers will have received the gift of Christmas cash, and what better way to spend this than on some seriesly cheap and productive digital hardware? Well that’s why we’re letting you know that the generous folks down at Wex Photographic are holding some seriously advantageous January sales!

First is the Stock Clearance site section, selling end of line items at rock bottom prices. This is definitely worth taking a look at if you’re after affordable photo solutions, including a host of cameras, lenses, filters and studio lighting devices. The Bargain Basement site section is the place to find returns and ex demo products at extremely heavy discounts – up to 50% reductions – and there is such a large amount of variety to chose from you won’t be disappointed. Last but not least there is the Price Crash site section, giving you a selection of Wex Photgraphic’s best offers, with savings of up to half price. Here you’ll discover the 12 deals Wex are focusing on over this period.

Hurry now to get your hands on any of these amazing bargains!

Turn back time with a retro effects special in Advanced Photoshop issue 91, on sale now from the ImagineShop and in stores.

Master retro effects
A series of tutorials showcasing different retro styles

Perfect your brushwork
Learn to paint realistic armour

Creative blogs
Set up and run your own successful blog

Unique web layouts
Create a simple one-page web layout

Also inside…
- Adobe Carousel
- Reader’s Gallery
- Intrinsic Nature Experiment 11
- Interview: Vasava
- Feature: Pro retouching secrets
- Tutorial: Displacement and break effects
- Trend focus: Retro neon
- Tutorial: Master layer styles
- Tool focus: Healing tools
- Tutorial: Work with 3D type
- Group test: External hard drives
- Top 10… Displays

Each issue of Advanced Photoshop comes with a free disc, which includes:
- Tutorial files for the magazine’s workshops
- 90 mins of expert image-editing video tuition
- 20 high-res stock photos from Fotolia
- 100 brushes and 20 textures
- Inspirational Photoshop artworks
- Book sample and associated resources from Go Media

Digital Photographer is celebrating its 10th anniversary starting in issue 117, which marks the beginning of a yearlong schedule of special celebratory events. To kick off the birthday celebrations, UK readers will receive a beautiful photo tips calendar inside issue 117.

Digital Photographer Editor, Rosie Tanner said, “We want to thank our readers for 10 fantastic years of photography by bringing them extra special editions and gifts throughout the year. We’re so proud to remain strong in such a populated photography market and this big birthday reinforces our heritage within the industry. It proves we’re a trusted, respected and inspirational magazine for so many photographers.”

As part of the celebrations, Digital Photographer is offering readers the chance to win a sensational prize of over £10,000 of professional photographic kit. “The prize contains everything you need to set up as a pro photographer,” Rosie Tanner said, “The winner will receive a brilliant course on how to go pro, plus an expert Sony DSLR, top of the range printer and a host of pro-grade accessories to help them launch their career with a bang.”

Since 2002 Digital Photographer has emerged as a successful global brand, with translated editions in Brazil, Philippines, Spain, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. It now dominates in the digital arena too thanks to impressive download figures on the Apple Newsstand, enabling readers to access their favourite photography magazine on their iPhone and iPad.

The Digital Photographer brand also extends to an extensive range of collectible bookazines and the popular ‘Digital Photographer of the Year Awards’ competition generates a massive global following, receiving thousands of entries from photographers every year.

As well as 10 years of the magazine, 2012 is also the fifth year of its highly successful gallery based website, DPhotographer.co.uk, which recently celebrated reaching 200,000 user-uploaded images.

Imagine Publishing is one of the UK’s fastest-growing multimedia content producers. Formed in May 2005, Imagine now publishes 20 regular print magazines, 30 digital apps, 25 websites and thousands of articles every month in the technology, videogames, photography and knowledge/science markets. An Imagine magazine is purchased every ten seconds.

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Issue 82 is on sale now from the Imagine Shop.