TAMPA, FL  - Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2006

Photoshop® Elements Techniques newsletter and website announced 11 winners of its 2006 Scrappy Awards, the first Photoshop® Elements design competition for digital scrapbookers.

Judges selected winners in 10 subject categories, and picked a Best of Show award for the grand prize. More than $10,000 in prizes will be distributed to the winners, whose designs were selected from 758 total entries. View the gallery.

Winning designs are:

• Best of Show: Janet Phillips - Jackson, Michigan
• Baby: Jodi Frye - Fort Johnson, New York
• Family: Stacy Carlson - Lincoln, Nebraska
• Graduation: Jennifer Caputo - Schaumburg, Illinois
• Holiday: Courtney Ferguson – Forrestfield, Western Australia
• Love/Romance: Tricia Kennedy - Trabuco Canyon, California
• Military/Patriotic: Pauline Washburn - Beaverton, Ontario
• Pet: Elizabeth Royalty – Worchester, Massachusetts
• Sports: Candi Gershon - Fishers, Indiana
• Travel: Anne Bury - Calgary, Alberta
• Wedding: Sharon Denney - Kansas City, Missouri

Industry sponsors contributed prizes for the contest, including Adobe Systems Incorporated, B&H Photo Video, Auto FX Software, ColorVision, Wacom, iStockphoto, PhotoSpin, KW Media Group, Peachpit Press, Linda Sattgast, and Lynette Kent.

The winning entries, all created using Adobe Photoshop® Elements software, will be featured in an upcoming issue of the newsletter, and on its website, www.photoshopelementsuser.com .

Photoshop Elements Techniques newsletter is published eight times a year by the same creative team that produces Photshop User and Layers magazines. Along with its companion website, www.photoshopelementsuser.com , Photoshop Elements Techniques teaches scrapbookers, digital photographers and hobbyists how easy it is to edit, color correct, and enhance their digital photos using Adobe Photoshop Elements software.