To celebrate the company’s 25th anniversary, Corel is running a worldwide digital art competition. Over to them to tell you the details:
“Corel’s Quest for the Best Creativity Challenge is looking to discover and showcase some of the extraordinary and inspiring work made in Corel software every day. Whether you’re someone who makes a living from your creations or you create art for the love of it, you’re invited to enter your best work created using Corel software! If you simply want to enjoy what others have created, just visit the site and vote on your favorites for a chance to win.
“‘With Corel’s Quest for the Best Creativity Challenge, we’re looking to discover and celebrate some of the extraordinary individuals who use Corel software in unique and inspiring ways,’ said Nick Davies, Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing at Corel. ‘As we celebrate our 25th birthday, it’s the perfect time to shine a spotlight on the talent and skills of our community as we thank them for their loyalty and longstanding support.’
“You are invited to participate in one of two ways:
“1) Design your creation in one of Corel’s products and upload your entry to www.corelquestforthebest.com to have a chance to win one of the great prizes being awarded for the top 25 entries.
“2) Visit www.corelquestforthebest.com to pick your favorite submissions. Just register and vote to enter the contest sweepstakes and have a chance to win one of 10 HP® Mini Netbooks drawn at random.
“Don’t delay! The contest is now open in the US, UK, Canada and Germany. Deadline for participation is 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time on August 31, 2010.
“Corel’s Quest for the Best prizes include: an HP® Pavilion Elite 390t desktop computer, Wacom® tablets, Nikon® D700™ Digital SLR camera and Nikkor® lens, Nikon® COOLPIX® cameras, Apple® iPad™, Flip UltraHD™ Camcorder, HP® Mini Netbooks and Corel software packages,including CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X5, Corel® Painter™ 11,
Corel® PaintShop Photo® Pro X3 and Corel® VideoStudio® Pro X3.
“To mark its 25th birthday and thank all of the customers who have supported it through the years, Corel will be launching a series of special promotions and activities through the remainder of 2010. Visit http://www.corel.com/25/uk for more details or follow them as @corelsoftware on Twitter.
“Contest participants can find free trial versions of the latest Corel creative products including CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X5, Corel® Painter™ 11 and Corel® PaintShop Photo® Pro X3 at www.corel.com/freetrials.
For full contest details, please visit www.corelquestforthebest.com“
I do not understand why any countries are excluded from this competition, I am an Irish artist and I use Corel Painter all the time and would have loved to submit an entry to this competition but am very disappointed to see the contest is only open to US, UK, Canada and Germany. Why?
Regards,
Sheila
I believe Corel has different representatives covering different territories and they run different competitions in different places at different times. A bit tricky to keep up with! I’ve just checked the official rules of entry though and they are indeed only accepting entries from the US, UK, Canada (excluding Quebec) and Germany.
Something is afoot with those entries! Have you seen the current winning one? Uh huh…
Jill –
What’s “up” is that the folks with high numbers of votes are not the best artists, necessarily, but the best users of social networking. In the age of Facebook, those with the most friends win in a contest like this. Corel seems to have noticed this, late in the game, and added a “Bonus” category to award 5 winners outside of the public voting.
Also, it seems odd that, if they are looking for the “best,” Corel did not publicize this contest well at all. Looks like plenty of folks in Germany heard about it, for some reason. But over on the major forums (CG Society, Hub, etc) there’s no mention of it, that I’ve seen. I’m a Corel Tech partner and I write a blog about Painter, with 30,000 pageviews per month, but Corel didn’t send me an email about it so I could publicize it for them.
Call me cynical, but I’d say the main objective here was to get people to download the trial versions and then get out the checkbook. Wouldn’t it be cool if Corel really did want to find the best, and then publish them in an annual book, such as Spectrum? Perhaps limit the works to Painter only, to show what it can do. What a great way to show support for the user base.
Just a thought…
-Bob Nolin