Hey, congrats on the honorable mention, Foot Fungus!
I've mentioned the woot.com "contests" a couple of times as something that looked like it should be "easy money" to most PSCers. If any of us can casually walk away with another site's money, I think that's great!
The most recent time I brought it up was in my reply on this spam link:
http://photoshopcontest.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=5914
(Yes, "spam"... the author registered here only to start a thread advertising another website.
) Here's what I wrote at that time:
cafn8d wrote:
Well, heck, if you want a chance to win cash prizes every weekend in photoshop-style imagery contests, try
www.woot.com. As I recall, the contests open Fridays and end Sundays... midnight Central Time. I haven't participated since I found and joined PSC, but it's actually where I started learning my own skills.
(such as they are) They are an online store, actually, but no purchase is required to register and participate in their "contests." Judgments seemed arbitrary to me, but the judges would be the first to agree. I didn't like the "community" very much, so I left. But if you're after cash, I bet most any member on PSC could easily win--if skill and manip have any weight whatsoever in winning...